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My rule for home automation is that the automation should merely augment the existing stuff and degrade gracefully in case of failure.
by Nextgrid 4y ago
My rule for home automation is that the automation should merely augment the existing stuff and degrade gracefully in case of failure.
- pixl97 4y agoI automate accessory lighting, but not primary. Christmas/holiday lights, mood lighting, under counter lighting, all that is controlled by automation. Now, primary lighting for the room, there's a switch on the wall for that.
- adql 4y agoI remember some IoT switches that just had lamp and switch connector and outside of control did just that - worked as dumb switch so if all else failed lights still worked as usual. It is still adding one extra component that could fail, but it was at least immune to "controller died, nothing works" problem.
- j45 4y agoPart of the reason why I went with Lutron Caseta, only to learn their hubs do not include telnet access on the basic model to allow private management of the switches. Still some workarounds for it, but the need to register a cloud account initially remains unimpressed. The cloud is always someone else's computer, the cloud always costs someone $, and over time, there will be less incentive to provide it.