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pydry
on Nov 24, 2021
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The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
This is how most home automation brands ought to work but it seems that in practice very few do.
Most of them want to proxy all attempts to turn on a light switch via AWS. Which is madness.
zbrozek
on Nov 25, 2021
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Folks are lazy and that's expedient. It's good (in the short term, at least) for the people who make the decisions and bad for their customers, who have little agency.
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Most of them want to proxy all attempts to turn on a light switch via AWS. Which is madness.