For the most part, I've not seen any real benefits to those 'smart devices' or any home automation system (more complex than timers, like how I set the timer on the coffee maker). IMO these things really just breed laziness.
Not so long ago I was thinking of the viability of developing an equivalent to some of those smart systems but without the dependence on other people's servers. I gave up on that idea when I considered that nobody would pay for a system like that that has fewer features, costs more, and doesn't have the capacity to interface with phone apps.
If one was so inclined, HDD space is cheap enough that someone could create their own "cloud" that nobody else could access (as opposed to Google drive, which is on open internet the only thing is the UUID to represent the specific person).
Most of the "smart" systems could be recreated if someone really wanted, without the need for outside input.
I was seriously considering this as a potential business before facing the fact that people wouldn't want to pay for that kind of custom solution when a "smart device" will do the same and potentially more without the extra costs.
And you probably agreed to it in the eula.
Nobody forces you to use that product.
I'm an electrical engineer and haven't got any of this 'smart' shit in my apt.
For the most part, I've not seen any real benefits to those 'smart devices' or any home automation system (more complex than timers, like how I set the timer on the coffee maker). IMO these things really just breed laziness.
Not so long ago I was thinking of the viability of developing an equivalent to some of those smart systems but without the dependence on other people's servers. I gave up on that idea when I considered that nobody would pay for a system like that that has fewer features, costs more, and doesn't have the capacity to interface with phone apps.
When I read 'cloud', I read 'someone else's hard drive'
When I read 'smart', I read 'someone else is controlling it'
Yeah, fuck that
Exactly.
If one was so inclined, HDD space is cheap enough that someone could create their own "cloud" that nobody else could access (as opposed to Google drive, which is on open internet the only thing is the UUID to represent the specific person).
Most of the "smart" systems could be recreated if someone really wanted, without the need for outside input.
I was seriously considering this as a potential business before facing the fact that people wouldn't want to pay for that kind of custom solution when a "smart device" will do the same and potentially more without the extra costs.
we need to revisit the reason why people are stupid enough to give their data away for some imagined advantage as convenience.
It's a smaller version of five eyes within our country.