• SteveTech@programming.dev
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        1 year 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).

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        1 year 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.

    • Big P@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

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