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The problem is that normal people no longer have a machine at home that’s always left on. As much as I dislike apple, their Apple TV might be one of the things
by swiley 7y ago
The problem is that normal people no longer have a machine at home that’s always left on. As much as I dislike apple, their Apple TV might be one of the things that pushes everyone in the direction of owning their IOT network.
There’s also (IMO) a serious lack of open source tools for managing IOT devices. Right now a lot of the cheaper ones speak PnPP but there’s only one functional client I was able to find for this (a buggy and obscure GTK app.) There are a lot of good libraries though so maybe that will change.
- the8472 7y ago> The problem is that normal people no longer have a machine at home that’s always left on. They do, their router. The better models are half a home server anyway. They have wifi, USB for storage, do voip, have direct internet access (no NAT issues!). They would be an ideal platform for home automation.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoExcept that they usually don't own it, they rent it from the ISP. I think the concept of home server - some box you buy separately from Internet connection - is a concept that needs more marketing, until it becomes normalized.