Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?
I do not know what happens during an ISP change, but i do know that during the recent amazon server outage, these smart appliances stopped working. There was a case where someone with a smart matress (yeah apperently that exists), couldnt sleep because the matress was launched into a weird W shape position and heated itself up.
My point is that’s not a necessary part of smart devices. That’s user-hostile implementation by the vendor. They have to go through more effort seeding _more money_in order to make them this bad.
Hopefully with the (slow) rollout of the new Matter/Thread standards and smart devices becoming mainstream, more manufacturers will have to add value with their smart functionality instead of looking at them as additional revenue streams or customer lock-in
smart functionality should be in addition to regular functionality, never instead of
everything should work “normally” if the smart functionality is not available for any reason
no effing vendor portals, no effing ads, no effing data collection
smart functionality should be accessible locally to my house ONLY
As an example, a smart light switch should be a light switch that everyone is familiar with and works as they expect to turn on and off the light. in addition I might make it accessible on my local network to voice assistant, turn it on or off by schedule or when I arrive at home ir enter the room
I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?
I do not know what happens during an ISP change, but i do know that during the recent amazon server outage, these smart appliances stopped working. There was a case where someone with a smart matress (yeah apperently that exists), couldnt sleep because the matress was launched into a weird W shape position and heated itself up.
My point is that’s not a necessary part of smart devices. That’s user-hostile implementation by the vendor. They have to go through more effort seeding _more money_in order to make them this bad.
Hopefully with the (slow) rollout of the new Matter/Thread standards and smart devices becoming mainstream, more manufacturers will have to add value with their smart functionality instead of looking at them as additional revenue streams or customer lock-in
Well that’s a new nightmare fuel for me. Glitchy mattresses.
I feel like I’m pretty tech-savvy… which is why I don’t want software in anything where plain old physics will do the job. Software breaks.
As a software engineer, my variation on this is
As an example, a smart light switch should be a light switch that everyone is familiar with and works as they expect to turn on and off the light. in addition I might make it accessible on my local network to voice assistant, turn it on or off by schedule or when I arrive at home ir enter the room
I see, we understand each other