echinopsis posted:

what does tat thing do though... i have new big house and am wondering how difficult a system for determining if all doors are shut is? or even outdoor lighting


can we talk abuot best places to get cheap outdoor LED lighting? whats the best power scheme to adopt for maximum compatibility? 12v?????
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Visual GNUdio posted:

If I could paraphrase that giant wall of text it would be this:

lol nope

error1 posted:

I wanted to demonstrate my cool nerdy home to a coworker today and shouted "hey siri, turn on the coffee machine!" into my apple watch, unfortunately siri only heard "turn on"


...which resulted in siri turning on loving EVERYTHING, including opening my garage door remotely

flakeloaf posted:

you mean something like http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1062468-REG/samsung_ed40d_ed_d_series_40_full.html

Sniep posted:

error1 posted:

Last month I bought a zwave lock for my front door, the only problem is that openHAB doesn't support the zwave security classes to make it work.
Thankfully, the internet has a workaround! http://wetwa.re/?p=136
Now, when I tell siri "hey siri, unlock the front door" the workflow is:

apple watch -> iphone -> homebridge -> openhab -> mosquitto -> mqttwarn -> z-way-server -> door lock

What kind of philistine would turn on a light bulb at the wall switch when you could have this bulletproof, flexible and easily configurable system instead?

eschaton posted:

does it have wifi though? are you sure it's not hopping on some nearby wifi network without your knowledge or permission?

I would expect a manufacturer unafraid of industrial espionage (say because they're afforded significant protection by a national government) to build hardware that does things like hop on any and all possible networks and attempt to contact a C&C server to see if there's additional poo poo it should do

and to have an "accumulate as much as possible to send back" mode for certain high value targets too, and include some form of "signature matching" to cause some targets to trigger

this is beyond just possibly having malware installed by a third party, the first party could itself be a bad actor in ways you might not otherwise notice

Sniep posted:

i got one of those IoT doorbells today and it seems p good