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Re:The unbearable fussiness of the smart home by pydry on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:22AM (#29329721)
This is how most home automation brands ought to work but it seems that in practice very few do.

Most of them want to proxy all attempts to turn on a light switch via AWS. Which is madness.

Re:The unbearable fussiness of the smart home by zbrozek on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:39PM (#29336978)
Folks are lazy and that's expedient. It's good (in the short term, at least) for the people who make the decisions and bad for their customers, who have little agency.