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kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 months agoHow many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?
Came goes for pretty much every IoT device that people seem to be filling their homes with.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is why, going forward, smart home products I buy have to be zigbee or zwave so I can integrate it with home assistant.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 9 months ago
I thought this comment was trolling then I realized that zigbee and zwave are real brand names. You can’t make this shit up.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
lol from the outside I can see how you’d think that.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Haha yeah they’re IoT protocols for smarthome stuff. But an open source software called Home Assistant can talk to it, so you can self-host your home automation without your home being subject to the whims of some fragile tech startup and by extension, their investors.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Oh I see, that’s helpful and makes sense. I’m one of those newbs who took 15 hours to set up my own Jellyfin. Self hosting Home automation is a ways off in the distance for me haha.
TheBat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah that’s how things are now.
I was looking for kitchen scale and not a single recognisable brand was there on Amazon. No Phillips, Bosch, Siemens, Panasonic etc.
Don’t know if these companies even make things like that anymore.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Yeah Amazon has opened the door to the lowest quality hardware out of China to put most name brands out of business for lower priced goods.