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Reaffirming my belief that I want nothing “smart” controlling critical infrastructure in my home. What if it were dead of winter, would he have been able to con
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
Reaffirming my belief that I want nothing “smart” controlling critical infrastructure in my home. What if it were dead of winter, would he have been able to control the heat?
- boardwaalk 2y agoThere are thermostats, among other things, that use standard protocols and still work in a “dumb” way if not connected. You just need to do some homework.
- maxerickson 2y agoThe thing in the article is a thermostat-zone controller system, where the tablet is part of the multi-zone controller, and there aren't really separate thermostats. In the US, it's common that the input to each zone controller is just a open/close contact, so in the worst case you can call for heat by shorting the right wires together. I have a smart thermostat that I use the provided app to control, but one of the reasons I went with it is that there's also an http server in the device firmware that can be used to control it (so if they totally ruin the app or turn off the server or whatever, there's a way out).
- weikju 2y ago> (so if they totally ruin the app or turn off the server or whatever, there's a way out) It's not impossible that when this happens, they'd also first push out an update to disable the http server.
- maxerickson 2y agoTrue. The remote features are somewhat focused on multi building commercial users, so I am not real worried that they will aggressively ruin it.
- dilyevsky 2y agoThere needs to be a law that any hardware/software that goes into people homes has to be gplv3. Instead we get braindead ai bills that are threatening to kill open models…