Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home
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There’s ways to have smart home devices, but instead of it phoning home it would connect to your personal server. I remember seeing it about a year or so ago. I just haven’t bothered to implement it because it’s a little bit costly and it takes some time to get started.
Or, you could just not have them at all…
Because fuck that, frankly.
No offense, but no one needs these things, in any capacity…
Cameras you do need. As for light switches, thermostats, and whatever else that has the capabilities of making you lazy I can agree you don’t need. But if you do feel like being a lazy fucktard like me then there’s a way you can do it without relying on companies that make money off your data.
I manage just fine without any of these devices, lol...
Why do you need a "smart" camera? There's plenty of "dumb" home security cams that do just as good a job, for what most people would need/want, surely..??
But seriously, while this may be entirely a matter of perspective, I can't see any reason why I would want, or need, any of those devices in my home, whatsoever.
And I've stayed in a number of places with those things installed. It was shit. I hated it.
So yeah, each to their own, I suppose!
I need to throw this out there. There is no smart camera. Those Ring camera just hook up to an outside server and give you the benefit of accessing the feed from outside the house. The same thing as a home security camera except the feed from those are saved locally. My point being get one or the other. There’s still a benefit to have them and that is security.
Home assistant is an example of such a setup and i run it on a docker container
That’s what I was thinking. I’ve been meaning to get it all setup using that, but I’ve been lazy about my server lately.