Pfft, most of my home is smart, but because I’m actually an IT professional none of my smart devices are allowed to call home unless I explicitly allow them to (for firmware updates). The only thing they’re allowed to talk to is my homeassistant server.
This meme is always dumb when it comes around, many of us with skills can pull off a smart home without resorting to “the cloud(s)” even if it means building our own IoT devices.
Do I trust Ring? Fuck no! Do I trust the camera doorbell I built and wrote the code with my own 2 hands and knows what it’s doing with every byte of data? Tentatively.
I’m taking things a step further and building a HAL9000 system for my house. This time with 15% less mental illness.
LMAO same, just picked up dual 3090s for a good deal for my AI smart home ambitions
Though, I’m calling it XANA…I’m sure nothing will go wrong with our chosen system names haha
Just noticed, you’re the 100th commenter!
You win absolutely nothing!
proof
Homeassistant for the win!
I never understood why you would want anything connected to the cloud. Like if the central server goes down, you just can’t turn on the lights or open your garage door? Why do people install that garbage? It’s not even really automated, you’re just using your voice or your phone to turn it off and on.
Like if the central server goes down, you just can’t turn on the lights
I can walk over to the switch and turn my lights on fine without internet, which in the rural area I live, happens quite often. The same with my thermostat, no net? Change it at the thermostat. The only thing I am missing when the net goes out is my schedules.
Right, but that’s my point. Why aren’t the schedules kept locally? Why aren’t the lights automated with presence? My automated home doesn’t require a connection to anything external to keep working. I pull weather data for forecasts, but if that goes down I can still pull the temp from my sensor outside. Worst case scenario is my garden sprinkler turns on when it’s raining. Everything else functions entirely offline. Lights, music, door locks, HVAC, even the TV remote (which I don’t even use because I prefer the actual remote with physical buttons).
HomeAssistant, all IoT devices are on a VLAN that can only talk to HomeAssistant…HomeAssistant server only accessible via LAN or through WireGuard to my VPS (which WireGuard’s to my router, which connects to my HA server).
Not perfect, not invulnerable, but it also only controls lights and harmless switches.
Mechanical Windows? I still have Windows 11. How do I upgrade to mechanical Windows?
Install Linux /s
I have a tech enthusiast friend who has his whole house hooked up to be smart. His lights somehow connect to the Internet.
I used to be a tech enthusiast. Used to.
Now if I didn’t personally audit the hardware I don’t want it on my fucking network. My smartphone, which I only use mobile data on and have the wifi disabled because reasons, is the only smart device I own connected to the internet. I also have 2 roku TVs but they’re offline (whytf does my TV need internet, it’s literally a monitor for my htpc).
IOT is not bad when you selfhost and manage all the data thats being scraped yourself. But like, fuck corporate IoT stuff
Same reason why mechanics drive 25 year old crap cans
