How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant

Re:How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb ... by kragen on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:42AM (#34627125)

that's a good start, but if you have 100% local control over a device that is refusing to work (because it doesn't have internet connectivity or for any other reason), you can fix the bug (or apply someone else's fix you downloaded from gitlab)

that doesn't work if you've ceded that control to apple, because they are not local

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Re:How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb ... by wil421 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:15PM (#34635297)

I can put HomeKit devices on a VLAN and not have them phone home. My Apple TV or HomePod will act as a bridge and will carry out my automations while I’m gone. Apple devices don’t bother me they aren’t an Ad company and have products I’ll buy into.

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Re:How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb ... by count on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:36AM (#34643465)

You..you do have control over the devices without internet access. That's the point.

You don't have '100% control' over things like code because they're embedded, certified devices, generally.

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