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Most smart devices are incredibly dumb. (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by geerlingguy@mastodon.social to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.

In this 8th moving vlog, I set up @homeassistant Yellow with a @Raspberry_Pi to solve some of my first world problems—but using *smart* automation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwyInX4KyM

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[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

Hey, Jeff's here! Neat.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

So?

[-] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago

Ikr? Seems like a good thing to me. I want dumb devices controlled by a smart system.

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

The video is about smart devices that are poorly designed and/or rely on cloud infrastructure being dumb. Jeff also wants smart devices that will literally only talk to home assistant, and will still work fine if home assistant is offline (like a light switch will still work if the server is down).

[-] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Then buy ZigBee devices and a Sonoff/ConBee ZigBee Gateway

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

That's what he did, but with a home assistant yellow as the gateway.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Exactly this.

My temperature sensors don't need to phone home or even communicate two ways. They just need to squawk the temperature into the ether.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

You think dumb as in not intelligent, what he means in the video is dumb as in poorly designed

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

Yes they are and to much proprietary firmware, software, and parts...

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

artIFicial intelligence

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, these days meaning either "an algorithm of any kind" or a complex bounded random number generator that draws a gigawatt to run.

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