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I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing - what you get at Home Depot is mostly a gimmick or a convenient point solution like light bulbs. You’re right
by aksss 3y ago
I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing - what you get at Home Depot is mostly a gimmick or a convenient point solution like light bulbs. You’re right that privacy is compromised on those solutions, but I also don’t think it’s bringing the full and integrated experience of home automation to the consumer because the full solution is still too complicated, because of the need for deep hobby-level interest in its successful configuration and maintenance, right?
- fragmede 3y agoWhat are the higher end/full solution type features/integrations you're thinking of?
- aksss 3y agoLate in responding to this but take for example using Home Assistant to integrate all the things - environmentals, presence, energy monitoring, switching, access, audio, video, etc. I don’t even think my house is all that sophisticated compared to some, but there’s no way an off the shelf plug-n-play solution delivers this today. I know way more about zigbee, Insteon, Zwave, tasmota, protocol border routers, gateways, dual band repeaters, bad and good vendors, leading vs trailing edge dimming and component value than I want to, and that’s just to get things talking effectively and reliably. Then there’s the automation build out - rules, data storage, state, events, triggers, oh my! And that’s atop an existing knowledge for managing vlans, WiFi, and the rest of the network stack. There’s also an assumption of comfort with residential wiring, of course. It requires hobby-level commitment from someone in house who becomes the SME. I enjoy it to an extent, though I wish it was easier, and it’s just not when I step back and take stock of all the obscure knowledge it takes. It’s kind of hilarious.