I was looking at the Petlibro app - they make smart pet feeders, water fountains, and other IoT pet products. Millions of pet owners use these things to feed their cats and dogs remotely.
What I found was… a lot.
I was looking at the Petlibro app - they make smart pet feeders, water fountains, and other IoT pet products. Millions of pet owners use these things to feed their cats and dogs remotely.
What I found was… a lot.
If you actually care about security, you won’t have a smart anything in your house.
Smart stuff is fine, you just need to self host the controller.
There are several “smart” technologies that are designed to be local. In my house, I have an old Dell Micro PC that has a zigbee antenna on it. All of my smart lights and switches are zigbee. Zigbee is a low power, offline, wireless meshing standard for IOT that doesn’t have any concept of “internet” or “routing”. It all runs through home assistant, a privacy respecting home automation platform. Home Assistant also plugs into lots of other devices in my house.
That’s why I drink. I refuse to be smart. I might go blabbing to everyone!
Cheers!