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Smart-homes: The future, or harmful?(beehaw.org)

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What do you guys think of the idea of smart homes? I could make a basic setup using https://home-assistant.io to control my home temperature and lighting; the tools for doing this are everywhere nowadays and implementation doesn’t seem too horrific anymore.

But setting aside what I “can” do, is this something that I “should” do? How can a person implement this without connecting any devices to the internet?

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Yeah no. As a former IT guy the last thing I want is be tech support for my family’s light switch

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