Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by

Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by by samatman on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:15AM (#30639417)

It's a reasonable way to live your life, but it's worth noting that most WiFi smart bulbs and switches can be liberated with a not-unreasonable amount of effort: https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/05/29/liberate-wi-fi-smart-bu...

Personally I benefit from being able to control the type of light and change it over the course of the day, and I've found a couple of uses for automatic switches which improve my life as well.

Point being, these things at least can be liberated from the IoT, where we all know what the S stands for.

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Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by by neop1x on Saturday March 12, 2022 @06:13PM (#30655950)

Zigbee devices can be used in a closed mesh network, without an internet connection or any proprietary cloud or subscription. One needs a USB coordinator dongle [1], a small computer like raspberry pi, zigbee2mqtt [2] & Home Assistant [3]. It works perfectly. Devices implement various standardized "profiles" documented in an open standard ZCL/dotdot and a lot of devices from different manufacturers work right out of the box.

[1] https://sonoff.tech/product/diy-smart-switch/sonoff-dongle-p... [2] https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ [3] https://www.home-assistant.io/

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