Smart Home Skepticism
The cluster discusses criticisms of internet-connected smart home appliances like thermostats, fridges, and washers, focusing on security risks, privacy concerns, unnecessary cloud dependency, and the growing difficulty of finding non-smart alternatives.
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You're missing the Forrest for the tree. What about smart door locks, smart boilers, smart heaters, smart AC thermostats. smart bathrooms, smart fire alarms..?
Which is one of the main reasons to never let "smart" appliances access the internet.
i don't understand why people buy smart devices. with anything smart i can't know what exactly the device is doing. plus the software will most likely stop being supported. by then it is just a potential tool to being hacked
I got smart appliances not a single one is connected to the internet and never will.
yes some home automation things if no one wants 'the cloud' to be involved
In our apartment, we have the following smart features:* Multiway light switches [0], which allow switching lights on and off from several different locations.* A boiler, which heats water up automatically should it become too cold.This covers lighting, heating, and supplies water at arbitrary temperatures between around 15 and 60 degrees celsius on demand, at several locations. The features do not require internet connectivity, are vendor-independent and have zero privacy issues. In t
I really don't need the current generation of smart devices. They are trying to solve a problem by applying quick fixes which don't work very well or need maintenance (changing batteries).I need a smart home where the built-in devices communicate and change behaviour based on sensor input and a controller where I'm in control of the software and open standards are being used. This also means that everything should work without internet access. Needing internet to turn a light o
most people don't want to manage a self-hosted server just for interacting with some smart devices in their home
I'm all for KISS.But in a rare instance, xkcd is missing the point here. People do not live in their rooms 24/7, but they do want to be able to, e.g., turn stuff on or off remotely, or based on environmental conditions (turn on/off based on outside sensors or the current electricity price...) or to get status alerts ("tank empty, refill").Now, I do that via Home Assistant and keep anything "smart" on a highly-restricted vnet ... but not everyone is a geek
Plenty of "smart" appliances phone home unnecessarily.