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Oh, yeah. There's a lot of iot webshit out there.

• TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Worst thing is, you have little choice. In my case: - There's approximately zero non-SaaS robot vacuums among the newer models. I gave up on this after a long search for something free of this insanity. - With my A/C unit and thermostats, the brand and model choice was made by the people doing the installations. I'm not sure if there are non-cloud, network-controllable options anymore, and even if they were, I'd have to look for local HVAC companies that actually offer them. - I spent much more time and money than is reasonable to have a fully-local networked baby cam, that doesn't leak videos to the cloud. Specifically, I had to buy a camera and two pieces of expensive network gear from Ubiquity (per HN advice, thank you), because that's apparently the only option in Europe (US folks have Amcrest), other than hacking something together from a spare Android phone, or webcams and Raspberry Pi. There's literally no other cloud-bullshit-free option I could find. (The "baby cam" is at least made of professional, high-quality gear, so that's a silver lining, but I doubt normal people would be happy to spend €500+ just to keep the video stream in-house.)