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90% of the functionality one reasonably wants from their home automation systems comes down to basically some descrete logic and some sensory input. 1) automat
by kazen44 8y ago
90% of the functionality one reasonably wants from their home automation systems comes down to basically some descrete logic and some sensory input.
1) automatic lighting depending on occupancy. (this has existed since the 80's)
2) time based events which respond to either heating or lighting, maybe alarm systems aswell.
3) acces control/security
Those are basically all major systems most people would want to automate in their homes, and none of them should require voice control or a smartphone app. (heck, most could be done with discrete PLC's, although that would be a horrible UX).
- Karunamon 8y agoI'd add a #4 voice control to that. You don't think you need it until you've used it, then you use it and wonder how the hell you ever survived without it. An Echo with a couple of smart switches feels like the future. This is one of the sane use cases for the cloud, IMO. Local speech recognition kinda sucks, and expecting consumers to manually update their firmware (since we've taken auto updates off the table) for new improvements is not realistic.