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I don't understand the obsession with voice control. If you seriously can't just turn on a light switch, wouldn't you just want your phone to use geo-fencing t

I don't understand the obsession with voice control. If you seriously can't just turn on a light switch, wouldn't you just want your phone to use geo-fencing to automatically turn on the lights when you get home AND it's night time? Then again, I don't understand a lot of this home automation stuff personally. If we come home and it's hot, we turn on the air conditioner. If it's dark, we turn on the lights. These are hardly difficult tasks for a child, much less an adult.

noblethrasher 10y ago
In the case of the Hue (and presumably other smart LEDS), you can have multiple scenes, which is a killer app for voice control.
- stephenr 10y ago
  I think we have very different uses for lightbulbs.
- coldtea 10y ago
  Except if you're going for a "70s sexy purple coloured bedroom with Barry White playing" or "Acid party lightshow for the Timothy Leary society" on demand, how is "multiple scenes" even remotely a "killer app for voice control"?
coldtea 10y ago
>Then again, I don't understand a lot of this home automation stuff personally. If we come home and it's hot, we turn on the air conditioner. If it's dark, we turn on the lights. These are hardly difficult tasks for a child, much less an adult. Yeah. With the exception of disabled people (where those could be very valuable) for me it looks like a solution to a problem nobody had and nobody much cares about now that it's solved. Contrast to e.g. washing dishes. (Oh, and by nobody I mean: aside from statistically insignificant outliers).
- stephenr 10y ago
  The one place I can think of that this might be useful, is where you already use a remote control and you're doing other things e.g., a geo-fenced trigger to open/close an automatic garage door/automatic gate. That I could probably use - we have a ~6m wide rolling gate and are considering motorising it, as opening a gate in the rain in Thailand is basically like going diving without a wet-suit. However, even that would need some decent consideration, and its entirely possible the standard remote system is more fool-proof.

noblethrasher 10y ago

In the case of the Hue (and presumably other smart LEDS), you can have multiple scenes, which is a killer app for voice control.

stephenr 10y ago
I think we have very different uses for lightbulbs.
coldtea 10y ago
Except if you're going for a "70s sexy purple coloured bedroom with Barry White playing" or "Acid party lightshow for the Timothy Leary society" on demand, how is "multiple scenes" even remotely a "killer app for voice control"?

coldtea 10y ago

>Then again, I don't understand a lot of this home automation stuff personally. If we come home and it's hot, we turn on the air conditioner. If it's dark, we turn on the lights. These are hardly difficult tasks for a child, much less an adult. Yeah. With the exception of disabled people (where those could be very valuable) for me it looks like a solution to a problem nobody had and nobody much cares about now that it's solved. Contrast to e.g. washing dishes. (Oh, and by nobody I mean: aside from statistically insignificant outliers).

stephenr 10y ago
The one place I can think of that this might be useful, is where you already use a remote control and you're doing other things e.g., a geo-fenced trigger to open/close an automatic garage door/automatic gate. That I could probably use - we have a ~6m wide rolling gate and are considering motorising it, as opening a gate in the rain in Thailand is basically like going diving without a wet-suit. However, even that would need some decent consideration, and its entirely possible the standard remote system is more fool-proof.