Smart home devices should work without the internet

Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by threethirtytwo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:43AM (#50442812)

Decades ago who would’ve thought that a computer could fit in the palm of your hand.

The future of smart devices is a local LLM running on every single one.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by mohamedkoubaa on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:14PM (#50443247)

That's way too much RAM to make sense, you could centralized it and run all home devices

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by wtch98 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:15PM (#50444014)

The amount of RAM sitting in my house unused today is enourmous compared to the amount of RAM I had available 30 years ago. My 10 year old laptop alone has 32G. That's 1000 times as much RAM as I had in my entire house in 1996, and 200,000 times as much as 1986.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by hamdingers on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:13PM (#50443970)

I will never need or want a local LLM running in my light bulbs.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by wongarsu on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:23PM (#50444142)

What use cases do you envision that go beyond the usual simple triggers and conditionals?

I could see using an LLM to set up more complex home automation rules that I am too lazy to set up myself. But for what kind of situations is it useful to have an LLM run the device directly?

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