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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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