Question for #infosec fam and friends. I am looking at replacing my old Sony "smart" TV with something less "phone home" and less broken from a software standpoint. Something that doesn't require its own VLAN and is the number one blocked device by PiHole in the house. I'm considering something using Linux, something using a Mac, or an Apple TV+ (for ease-of-use interface). Any thoughts, advice, or "if I could do it over" stories are welcome.
As an FYI, the old television's app system is increasingly buggy, especially after upgrades to the Android OS and/or individual streaming apps, to the point of madness.
After over 11cm (about 4.34 inches) of rain yesterday, area flooding in lower parts of the city, causing a few isolated and hard-to-repair-quickly power outages to small pockets of residents and businesses. There were a few "glitches" as power was re-routed to help restore things. Long story short, three power outages since yesterday afternoon, two of them overnight, and I only know this because my #smarthome told me so via alerts. Fortunately with the batteries only the non-critical-load circuits were down briefly. Weird seeing all the neighbors' lights go off on the outside cameras, then come back on.
So glad to have #solar and #batteries to keep things up and op as the #weather gets increasingly intense each season.
Looking for recommendations for a Zigbee temperature sensor that is safe to put in a fridge?
I'm not sure if that even exists? Batteries aren't supposed to get that cold? #smarthome#homeautomaton#zigbee#homeassistant
How do you solve the problem of growing a popular smart home platform committed to open-source, open-standard ideals into something bigger that stays true to those ideals? Home Assistant believes it has the answer with the newly formed non-profit called Open Home Foundation. @theverge has more on the foundation's stated aim "to fight against surveillance capitalism, and offer a counterbalance to Big Tech influence, in the smart home — by focusing on privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart home users.” https://flip.it/K55TOX #Tech#SmartHome#CyberSecurity#Technology
Er ist gekommen, um sauber zu machen. 🧹 Doch stattdessen bringt er ungebetene Gäste mit, die für ziemlich viel Chaos sorgen – unsichtbares Chaos. Denn auch Saugroboter können gehackt werden, wenn #Cyberkriminelle Sicherheitslücken ausnutzen.
Damit der Saubermann also nicht plötzlich zum unfreiwilligen Spion wird, gibt es ein paar Dinge zu beachten. Mehr erfahrt ihr auf https://einfachabsichern.de 👈
My #HomeAssistant setup reminds me to take my #medicine if I haven't taken it on time. Spent some time rigging it up to connect to a #Mistral#AI. With a clever prompt, the reminder I get every night is now customized, encouraging, and inspiring. 😎
Looking into other AI customized elements to work into my setup.
Kann mir vielleicht jemand einen zigbee hub empfehlen, den ich gut an meinem Unraid Heimserver betreiben kann? Ich will darüber smart plugs und Rauchmelder laufen lassen und bin etwas unsicher, welche da etwas taugen. #smarthome#zigbee
Strich für Strich kommen wir dem Verdächtigen auf die Spur. Tatsächlich können auch neue Smart-TVs in Schwierigkeiten geraten. Um euren Smart-TV richtig abzusichern, lohnt sich ein Blick auf unsere Seite http://www.einfachaBSIchern.de.
This piece is worth reading if you’re in tech criticism or infosec/cybersecurity and are being asked for commentary on IoT and smart home devices.
People aren’t foolish for using IoT or for wanting things to be easier in their homes. This tech makes positive and meaningful change for people of all kinds of abilities. It’s valid to worry about the privacy or security issues that IoT is riddled with, but don’t draw a direct line from there to blaming the user - some people have no alternatives that don’t involve giving up independent access to their own homes and lives. Everyone deserves to live in ways that fit their needs.
Instead, join the push to hold manufacturers and providers to account for poor security and privacy practices. Advocate for better, more respectful and accessible default configurations. Help people understand how to anticipate and mitigate the worst of these issues when they’re setting things up, and give them power and agency over their home systems.
We all deserve to have tech that works for us, in all the ways that matters.
I wanted to do the smart house thingy that I see everyone else do. My Internet connection is unstable, it turns out, so while trying to make my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I realised I couldn't turn on the lights.
🆕 blog! “Receive push notifications from your rice cooker”
I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any SmartHome features. You put in water and rice, press a button, it cooks rice. Nice! The only problem is - I don't know how long the rice will take to cook. It uses "Fuzzy Logic" to work out exactly […]
I just spent a rediculous amount of time troubleshooting why I can’t add new devices to HomeKit. I even went so far as to try a different WiFi base station. Either I have the single most esoteric network setup—which isn’t likely—or parts of HomeKit are fundamentally broken. Again. #homekit#apple#smarthome#fail
Dear @esphome@esphome community, what are your thoughts on ESP boards with an Ethernet port for making #SmartHome devices?
For example, if building a new house, would you recommend to have smart wall plugs with an ESP with an Ethernet port? I'd like to be able to turn it on, off and to monitor power, current, voltage and temperature. What board and Ethernet module to get? I believe such a board is configurable via #ESPHome.
Es gibt Updates aus der Dortmunder Altherren Tech-WG. Der @Casi und ich haben alle Lichter haengen, mussten erkennen, dass "Smart-Rollos" der groesste Quatsch sind und planen die naechsten Schritte.
Still have some old tv, clima devices or something else unsmart with IR-control? There is now a tuya ZigBee device for that which works perfectly fine with Zigbee2MQTT. No cloud needed.