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There's a much more immediately practical reason to keep it in-firewall as well: if the utility company accidentally cuts a fiber line outside my house, I don't
by vishbar 9y ago
There's a much more immediately practical reason to keep it in-firewall as well: if the utility company accidentally cuts a fiber line outside my house, I don't want to be suddenly unable to turn off my hallway light.
- maxerickson 9y agoMaybe building codes could spec that home automation devices must have local controls. The companies aren't going to do it without regulation.
- tomc1985 9y agoOr maybe people stop building all this shit in the cloud?
- maxerickson 9y agoPart of my argument there is that it isn't going to happen without regulation.
- twothamendment 9y agoWait, so now building codes are going to get involved with what I run in my house after it is built and inspected? That doesn't sound like building codes. If anything, regulation from the FCC or someone else would be more uh, fitting.
- maxerickson 9y agoSure, I was thinking of things like lights supporting local control. I guess I'd try to write it so that a phone app talking to the light counted as passing the rule, as long as it worked without an internet connection. I don't see how it is a problem for simple rules like "Installed lights must always be controllable from inside the premises" to be code.