Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoLogitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down12
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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoThat’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoYou didn’t look very hard. Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoYes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.