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Smart home devices should work without the internet

6 points • by skittleson • today at 3:25 PM • 1 comment • view on HN

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skittleson • today at 3:25 PM

Author here. This is ten years of home automation rules, led by one: nothing core should depend on a vendor's server. Setup core is Tasmota, MQTT and Node-RED on a Pi. I've given this talk a few times and started working on a third for the agentic era. What's the most pointless internet dependency you've found in a device?

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