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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by dag11 on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:01PM (#23275674)
Similarly, I have two smart outlets and one smart lightswitch in a room. One is called "Drew's LEDs", and the other is called "Drew's Heater". When I ask google to "Turn off the lights!" it turns off the switch and the "Drew's LEDs" smart outlet, but not the "Heater" smart outlet!

I definitely appreciate the effort they put into understanding the semantic nature of a device from the name I assigned it. Nowhere did I ever designate one of the smart outlets to "behave like a light."

Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by jdavis703 on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:26PM (#23278973)
Scary! I would never have anything involving heat (oven, space heater, etc) or water connected to the IoT. Way too much risk of fire or flood from a bug or a hack.