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> I can't buy something that just has a $5 microprocessor with just enough intelligence to connect to the internet and send me an email or a push notification
by justinsaccount 9y ago
> I can't buy something that just has a $5 microprocessor with just enough intelligence to connect to the internet and send me an email or a push notification if the buzzer on the washer goes off.
1000000 x this.
The only thing I'd ever want a smart device to do is have a way to configure a mqtt or such endpoint that it should connect to to send/receive simple messages.
Just no consumer actually wants this. They want to be sold a box that connects to someone elses mqtt broker so it can work with an app that connects to someone elses server.
It's just another front on the war on general purpose computing.
- astebbin 9y ago> a $5 microprocessor with just enough intelligence to connect to the internet and send me an email or a push notification if the buzzer on the washer goes off You have essentially described the Protect. Its brain is a cheap little MCU with 128kB RAM. The author, had he read an actual teardown [0], should have realized this. Instead, he made false and confusing claims about Linux. Certainly other companies put grossly-overspecced hardware in their "Smart" devices, but Nest's Protect isn't one of them. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Protect+Teardown/20057 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Protect+Teardown/20057
- wrs 9y agoLinux specifically is wrong, but according to ifixit, there are two general purpose 32-bit processors, and two radio SoCs also containing 32-bit processors. Which to me still seems like a heck of a lot of CPUs and software for a smoke alarm.