I have the circuits for all my "dumb" appliances monitored by my homeassistant. Then HA sends notifications to my phone. And it doesn't need to send 3.6GB to the internet to do it.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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At this point I suspect that washing machine vendors are running botnets themselves. People won’t care anyway what happens with their appliances without consent anyway.
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Gotta transfer all your dirt.
having lots of networked devices means your life depends on a lot of network programmers
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