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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by Havoc on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:24AM (#31038112)
Not just TVs...I can see my freaking lightbulbs in my pihole charts. What a time to be alive.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by chrisjc on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:09PM (#31041853)
I get that light-bulbs need to connect to receive control commands and get firmware updates, but I'm wondering what other things might there be to worry about here?

Collecting usage data, sure...

Amazon Sidewalk has been brought up a couple of times in this thread and it's got me thinking about how others could also bring up similar ambient/background networks that piggyback off your main network.

If this were to happen, then your TVs and other devices wouldn't even need permission to connect to your main network and instead go through one of the many ambient/background networks.

Perhaps there's good reason to only use zwave and zigbee smart devices instead of wifi ones.

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by MiddleEndian on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:11AM (#31039814)
Why give your TV and light bulbs network access in the first place?
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by Havoc on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:28AM (#31040653)
They need to be on the LAN so that Home Assistant can talk to them for automation.

They're firewalled off & the call home address is blocked on pihole

No TV in my case.

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by dunefox on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:27PM (#31046054)
Light bulbs?!
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