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Jeff Geerling @mastodon.social

2y ago

Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.

Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.

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

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

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Hey, Jeff's here! Neat.
So?
- Ikr? Seems like a good thing to me. I want dumb devices controlled by a smart system.
  
  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).
  
  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.
- You think dumb as in not intelligent, what he means in the video is dumb as in poorly designed
Yes they are and to much proprietary firmware, software, and parts...
artIFicial intelligence
- 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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