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All I have to do is skim any privacy policy these days and virtually every cloud service has written theirs in a way that I can pretty much guarantee they're se
by connicpu 4y ago
All I have to do is skim any privacy policy these days and virtually every cloud service has written theirs in a way that I can pretty much guarantee they're selling my data to someone.
I picked up electrical engineering as a hobby because I want a smart home but there isn't a single IoT device on the market that I can trust won't phone home to sell my data. On the bright side I've found soldering isn't too hard and prototype size batches of PCBs are cheaper than ever.
- frisco 4y agoFor the prosumer smart home, I highly recommend going with the low end industrial automation (ie https://automationdirect.com https://automationdirect.com, https://findernet.com https://findernet.com, etc) rather than “IoT” brands. Way more powerful, everything is interoperable, and the business model is much simpler. No phoning home.
- connicpu 4y agoIf I wanted something that was more akin to putting legos together that's definitely the way, but I found it quite enjoyable to go down to the low level of electrical design, and any application that can be accomplished by flipping a switch can be made wifi-compatible with an ESP32 module and a relay or TRIAC circuit (TRIACs are nice because they don't have a lifetime rated in switching cycles). I don't have to worry about my microcontroller phoning home if I wrote the firmware it's flashed with!