While government leaders spent the last three years hyperventilating about TikTok, less talked about has been the dodgy “internet of things” (IOT) space; a broad assortment of mostly ov…
While government leaders spent the last three years hyperventilating about TikTok, less talked about has been the dodgy “internet of things” (IOT) space; a broad assortment of mostly ov…
I love my smart stuff but I’ve been buying zigbee whenever possible. You can’t trust the cloud even from big companies. Google got rid of the API for nest devices without a replacement ready so I went over a year without being unable to control it with home assistant. Alexa got dumber over time to the point telling her “turn on the fan” while in my bedroom turned on the fan in my mother’s room but telling it to turn off the fan turned off the fan in my bedroom like it was supposed to.
At this point I’m only interested in smart home stuff that can be connected to home assistant sunning on my home server.
Yeah, I made a point of buying a Venstar thermostat because it has a local REST API that I could hook up directly to Home Assistant and control locally. My IoT VLAN doesn’t even have Internet access, it’s blocked.