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A comment on Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?.

Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by alkonaut on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:42PM (#33039763)
Completely agree.

That said we shouldn’t reserve the “IoT” moniker for crappy cloud based things requiring constant internet connections to work. That’s the internet of shit (as popularized by https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit)

I definitely want some connectivity in a solar panel setup. But in the case of a solar panel array there is no point for that connectivity to use be more than local, or offer more than simple monitoring. A local polling api that offers a simple json blob with stats? Does that qualify as “IoT”?

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by bombcar on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:26PM (#33040326)
Internet of Turds seems to involve some worthless "cloud service" that they try to charge you for.

It is sometimes accompanied by a local API that works without internet (Apple HomeKit stuff seems to somewhat work sometimes in an internet outage, and the Hue buttons keep working).

It can be quite hard to distinguish the two.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by alkonaut on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:30PM (#33041059)
The HomeAssistant project has pretty good docs on which devices use what class of communication e.g “local polling” should be the minimum for any device I get (regardless of whether I want to use it with HomeAssistant)
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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by jacereda on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:03AM (#33045648)
I'm considering a GoodWe inverter supported by HomeAssistant, it would be good to know if those can be functional without internet connectivity. Anyone knows the answer?
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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by justizin on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:44PM (#33039795)
no.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their ... by alkonaut on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:28PM (#33041039)
No as in… you think “IoT” means gadgets with cloud connections?
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