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Re:Google outage – resolved by sammorrowdrums on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:21AM (#25416525)
I, and probably many others here are like a status page for friends and family too... I had my wife thinking that the internet was broken, and tried tethering to phone and things and still didn't work, then showed me and I saw the status code errors and was like "it's actually parts of Google that are down".

I love (and am deeply scared by) the dependence of Google and the confusion of it with the entire internet.

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Re:Google outage – resolved by throwawaylolx on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:33AM (#25416665)
It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290

>I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now.

Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

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Re:Google outage – resolved by fileeditview on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:48AM (#25416833)
I still like my physical switch on the wall to turn the light on and off very much.. for me it's hard to beat. I can even turn it on/off semi-remotely with e.g. a tennis ball.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by i_am_new_here on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:58PM (#25423956)
If my Alexa fails, then I can also just turn the light off with the switch and when flipped back "on" again, then it will be on.

Fallback to 'classical mode' works for me.

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Re:Google outage – resolved by mlindner on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:40AM (#25416741)
If your home automation system requires a network connection to work then something is very wrong.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by m4rtink on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:00AM (#25416952)
Right? Home automation is perfectly fine and mught even expose a secure authenticated API to the internet so you can say check and adjust the temperature remotely, but it shoukd never ever go down for lical use if the Internet connectivity or the remote service backend goes down.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by tibu on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:43AM (#25416786)
Home Assistant rulez with non-cloud sensors. I never by sensors, cameras, switches which require connection to an external host. But I'm sure that most people will do it even with such outages too.
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