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In an article covering bad engineering resulting in bricking, I think it's relevant to point out that Insteon's kind of bricking is impossible if you choose the
by rlpb 5y ago
In an article covering bad engineering resulting in bricking, I think it's relevant to point out that Insteon's kind of bricking is impossible if you choose the right product, and which product that is.
I did some research before investing in home automation. I settled on Z-Wave exclusively exactly because there are multiple manufacturers in the market, their devices are interoperable, and I can use Free Software controller software that I host myself that doesn't phone home. Admittedly I am dependent on binary firmware blobs embedded in every device, but at least my system has no Internet dependency whatsoever.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago'I am dependent on binary firmware blobs embedded in every device' As long at they follow a standard, i think this is somewhat acceptable
- shadowgovt 5y agoWhat do you use for your hub software? I've heard good things about home-assistant.io but I haven't tried it.
- rlpb 5y agoI wrote my own (in Python+trio). I still need to publish it :-/ I'm sure Home Assistant would also be fine though! Currently it uses openzwave, but I found that it didn't suit me very well. So I have a half-written replacement for the low level protocol parts too, to eventually take it to pure Python.
- jjeaff 5y agoHome assistant has deprecated open zwave and is now using zwave JS. Which has worked very well for me so far.