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Completely agree. That said we shouldn’t reserve the “IoT” moniker for crappy cloud based things requiring constant internet connections to work. That’s the in
by alkonaut 4y ago
Completely agree.
That said we shouldn’t reserve the “IoT” moniker for crappy cloud based things requiring constant internet connections to work. That’s the internet of shit (as popularized by https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit)
I definitely want some connectivity in a solar panel setup. But in the case of a solar panel array there is no point for that connectivity to use be more than local, or offer more than simple monitoring. A local polling api that offers a simple json blob with stats? Does that qualify as “IoT”?
- justizin 4y agono.
- alkonaut 4y agoNo as in… you think “IoT” means gadgets with cloud connections?
- bombcar 4y agoInternet of Turds seems to involve some worthless "cloud service" that they try to charge you for. It is sometimes accompanied by a local API that works without internet (Apple HomeKit stuff seems to somewhat work sometimes in an internet outage, and the Hue buttons keep working). It can be quite hard to distinguish the two.
- alkonaut 4y agoThe HomeAssistant project has pretty good docs on which devices use what class of communication e.g “local polling” should be the minimum for any device I get (regardless of whether I want to use it with HomeAssistant)
- jacereda 4y agoI'm considering a GoodWe inverter supported by HomeAssistant, it would be good to know if those can be functional without internet connectivity. Anyone knows the answer?