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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Hey, Jeff's here! Neat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then buy ZigBee devices and a Sonoff/ConBee ZigBee Gateway

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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