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Nobody's using the app for day-to-day stuff, it's all about voice control, and most people don't share the (overblown to the point of conspiracy theory, imo) co
by Karunamon 5y ago
Nobody's using the app for day-to-day stuff, it's all about voice control, and most people don't share the (overblown to the point of conspiracy theory, imo) concerns about voice assistants.
I've got a whole home full of these, switches and bulbs and smart speakers. They do some very useful things for me:
* Turning the lights on before entering a dark room with inconvenient switch placement inside
* Ensuring all the lights are off before leaving or going to bed
* Turning on my porch light when it gets dark, and off again in the early morning
* Simulating liveness when away on vacation
* Turning the lights on when I've got my hands full of grocery bags
* Ramping my bedroom lights up slowly in the morning as a gentle wake-up
* With some cheap motion sensors, ensuring that lights that are often accidentally left on are turned off, saving power and money.