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At the risk of being a buzzkill: a "smart home" is a home that is easy to manage. Most people have too much stuff, too much clutter, too many gadgets/clothes/v
by angdis 12y ago
At the risk of being a buzzkill: a "smart home" is a home that is easy to manage.
Most people have too much stuff, too much clutter, too many gadgets/clothes/vehicles/appliances/tools, etc. All these things take effort and mental energy to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
The ironic thing about home automation is that it manages stuff by adding yet more stuff to manage. By trying to make stuff smart, you end up adding more points of failure-- more ways for things to get screwed up.
- pspeter3 12y agoI've started to realize that in this exploration. I think I might just need at most a simple dashboard.
- jsilence 12y agoAgreed. Watching a video of someone who had the lights turned on and of by a Kinect connected to a Pi a while ago I pondered what I would like to have automated in my home. I came up with... nothing. Most of the basic household chores are about actually doing stuff. Groceries, fixing food, washing dishes and clothes etc. Automation boils down to switching on and off electrical devices and maybe some video or information display. Not enough optimization potential for me. Even my roomba (clone) sits idle, because it is tangling up in the stuff the cats play with.