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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by kulahan on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:09PM (#50445622)
It’s not gonna be an internet response, but there are already water alarms. You’re typically meant to put them under your sink.
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:31PM (#50445888)
B-hyve has them. They talk to a hub over low power Bluetooth. The hub connects to my VPC-siloed WiFi AP on its own subnet with no routes to anything else in the house. But I still get phone alerts because it connects to its cloud service.
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