Comment on Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 weeks agoI’ve seen tower fans with Wifi. Why on earth does a fan need to contact the internet?
Comment on Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 weeks agoI’ve seen tower fans with Wifi. Why on earth does a fan need to contact the internet?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Most smarthome products are only worthwhile if they’re coupled with other devices in IFTTT style workflows. Like a morning routine where lights come on, the blinds open, and your playlist starts when you fist bump the air or yell “still alive”. A fan is stupid because you can control most fans from a smart plug, but a fan could come in handy for a grow operation, to maintain a level of humidity or whatever; coupled with a smart hygrometer/thermometer, irrigation, and server.
The problem is capitalism — every company tried to create their own walled gardens out of pure greed, so nobody except rich morons were willing to commit to automating their lives with a product/brand/platform that may not exist tomorrow, and won’t work with any other brand/platforms products, so all they’ve done is collectively hamstrung the entire markets growth, and created mountains of e-waste. Things are starting to move in a better direction, but until I can setup a cost-effective smarthome 100% offline, LAN only, managed by my own FOSS home server, I’m not gonna bother with anything more than a few standalone devices (e.g. pet-cam, mood lighting, etc).
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have that for several years now, with Tasmota devices and a Home Assistant server.
I am going one step further even: most of the logic continues to work even if the Home Assistant server is down. I just have less additional control by smartphone then, and less statistics.