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> My Preferred Smart Home Vendors None.

• verisimi 4y ago
  Ok - downvoted a little, but why would you invite corporations into your house to spy and collect info on everyone, and then make a song and dance about what sort of spying on you and your family prefer? "Do you prefer your jail cell to have the barred window high up AND a thin mattress, or a better view but NO mattress?"
  • RealStickman_ 4y ago
    > Must be controllable locally, and cloud dependency must be optional. In other words, I can use the device without any internet connection. Criteria #1 in the article
  • sofixa 4y ago
    As per TFA, there are many vendors who sell local-only/first/optional hardware, which paired with a local-first software hub like Home Assistant means you have a smart home without inviting any corporation in your home.
  • function_seven 4y ago
    I don’t invite corporations into my house to spy. That’s the entire point of local-only devices! All my smart home stuff is either Zigbee/Z-wave or some 3rd-party firmware over WiFi (Tasmota/ESPHome) I happen to have a couple Echos. They don’t know about my smart home. They’re glorified Bluetooth bridges and one day I’ll replace those as well.
  • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
    Because then you can have free market in your house and capitalism solves every problem.
    • incahoots 4y ago
      Got a chuckle out of me
  • theshrike79 4y ago
    The whole article is about smart home stuff that doesn't spy on you. IKEA being the biggest one. Their stuff doesn't ring home for anything except for firmware updates. There's no built-in remote control over the internet, no IKEA account needed, nothing.