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> Just follow some very simple rules of smart homes and it will be a better journey. I could make an infinitely long list. Is this sarcasm? This whole post kin

> Just follow some very simple rules of smart homes and it will be a better journey. I could make an infinitely long list. Is this sarcasm? This whole post kinda reads like the "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?" quote.

alkonaut 4y ago
> Is this sarcasm? It definitely is not! By "very simple" I mean "this is very simple compared to actually trying to create a smart home without following these rules". Creating a smart home that goes beyond something that is either trivial or frustrating, is definitely not easy. But the rules themselves are pretty easy to understand I think. Such as "don't buy anything that needs a subscription" or "you either need to hire or be an electrician". Not sure what you think is sarcasm. I still think the post is pretty understandable?
- wodenokoto 4y ago
  Thank you for the sincere reply. I think it’s a lot of rules - you even allude to there being infinite - and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. A lot of them looks like the product of hard learned lessons too. So the sum of the whole thing doesn’t add up to simple.
  - kelnos 4y ago
    > and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. I think the parent addressed this, and I agree: if you are going to do this well, then you need to be comfortable tinkering with computers and networks. I've built a smart home setup based on openHAB. It's not perfect, and it does occasionally break (fortunately rarely, and usually because I decided to update or mess with something), but I have everything in the home behind one app, and everything works predictably and consistently.

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> Just follow some very simple rules of smart homes and it will be a better journey. I could make an infinitely long list. Is this sarcasm? This whole post kin

by wodenokoto 4y ago

alkonaut 4y ago
> Is this sarcasm? It definitely is not! By "very simple" I mean "this is very simple compared to actually trying to create a smart home without following these rules". Creating a smart home that goes beyond something that is either trivial or frustrating, is definitely not easy. But the rules themselves are pretty easy to understand I think. Such as "don't buy anything that needs a subscription" or "you either need to hire or be an electrician". Not sure what you think is sarcasm. I still think the post is pretty understandable?
- wodenokoto 4y ago
  Thank you for the sincere reply. I think it’s a lot of rules - you even allude to there being infinite - and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. A lot of them looks like the product of hard learned lessons too. So the sum of the whole thing doesn’t add up to simple.
  - kelnos 4y ago
    > and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. I think the parent addressed this, and I agree: if you are going to do this well, then you need to be comfortable tinkering with computers and networks. I've built a smart home setup based on openHAB. It's not perfect, and it does occasionally break (fortunately rarely, and usually because I decided to update or mess with something), but I have everything in the home behind one app, and everything works predictably and consistently.