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Community fĂĽr Austausch zum Thema Smart Home bzw. Heimautomatisierung.

Wikipedia: "Smart Home dient als Oberbegriff für technische Verfahren und Systeme zur Gebäudeautomation in Wohnräumen und -häusern, in deren Mittelpunkt eine Erhöhung von Wohn- und Lebensqualität, Sicherheit und effizienter Energienutzung auf Basis vernetzter und fernsteuerbarer Geräte und Installationen sowie automatisierbarer Abläufe steht."

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  • Das Banner zeigt die Steuerung einer Lampe mit dem Smartphone. Image by Dennis on Pixabay
  • Das Icon zeigt symbolisch die Vernetzung im Smart Home (Ausschnitt). Image by Roman on Pixabay

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🫕📱GE: Wi-Fi required to roast food in your high-end $3,600 oven (www.consumerreports.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/47171718

The guy could not use “Convection Roast” mode in his oven unless he connects to wi-fi and registers personal data. Apparently because this was a cook mode that was added after the oven was marketed.

Sure, it is useful to be able to get new features and upgrades after the thing is produced. But because of that, it’s as if they are making the store version deliberately excessively basic in order to twist people’s arms to run their proprietary closed-source spyware.

I was originally going to tag this as [a/d] (for asshole design), but opted to call it crappy design because upgradability is still a good thing. What’s crappy is the fact that:

  • it’s not FOSS
  • GE’s server is needlessly in the loop for everything
  • ppl must register on GE’s platform and give copious personal info which is then certain to be abused

To avoid both c/d and a/d, I would insist:

  • the app must be FOSS
  • the app and appliance both must have no cloud dependency and talk to each other in an off-grid LAN-only scenario
  • upgrades must be fetchable over Tor without registration, and side-loadable; users must be able to connect over Tor from a public cafe/library to fetch upgrades
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