Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse
To me a smart device was supposed to be a normal device that you could control ‘smartly’ over wifi.
Mini SoCs with their own apps and an optional subscription built in for some proprietary shit? That goes past smart straight into dumpster trash.
noorbeast@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
HomeAssistant…this is the way!
kakes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Never in a million years would I buy always-online trash when I could just use Home Assistant and control my devices locally.
Windex007@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Also, ESPHome is crazy good. It’s honestly not that hard or experiensive to take a dumb device and splice in some non-cloud home assistant capacity w/ ESPHome
Starayo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If I can’t run it with home assistant, I’m buying a dumb device instead.
Trying to buy an automated feeder for my cat was a nightmare. Why does everything have a camera and require an internet connection to China? Everything was on tuya! It’s fucking ridiculous. You don’t need cloud processing for this shit. Finding something that’s just a timer worth a battery backup that wouldn’t fail to feed my cat if the power or internet briefly went out took way too much effort.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
If anyone is still looking for one, I got myself this model (the one for 2 cats but it works the same): petlibro.com/…/petlibro-granary-automatic-pet-fee…
The company has other models with wifi and cameras as well as an app but this particular model is just a dumb timer based machine.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Any chance you’d know the answer to this (or a better community to ask in) -
I need something I can hook into a projector’s HDMI port. All I need from it is mirroring my phone and occasionally playing Plex. I don’t really want to get a smart device if I don’t have to
anonymoose@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Nowhere near an expert on the subject, but I wonder if a Raspberry Pi will suffice?
bitfucker@programming.dev 7 months ago
This may be a bit convoluted, but I think its the only way. You have to install 2 apps on the PC and phone. One for controlling the PC, and second for your phone to stream the display to PC. The first one, I don’t know any good one but maybe some simple SSH is suffice. The second is scrcpy. It is an app that lets you stream your phone to the desktop/PC
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
you need a !sbcs@lemux.minnix.dev single board computer with a touch of linux to setup the image.
epyon22@programming.dev 7 months ago
I’ve been eyeing one of those Intel HDMI sticks for this. I have been using my steam deck for stuff lately and KDE connect is really good, or leverage something like Kodi.