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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by airstrike on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:10AM (#22084805)
Make it offline-first.

And allow a local connection to edit config files, letting users point it to an arbitrary IP.

That might solve it.

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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by crooked-v on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:54PM (#22087118)
To add to this, a good idea would probably be either a physical "allow access" button on the device (think like the clicky button on top of the Philips Hue hub), or a secure random password physically printed on the device that's the default access password.
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