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I read the title as "Logitech will bring new smart home buttons on October 15” and I thought "hmm new proprietary iot shit, I wonder when they're going to brick them"
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I don't get it. Little "drivers" that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?
Where is the "requirement" for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?
I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You're supposed to pretend it's necessary! Did they skip that step?
Sad news, I’m still impressed that they didn’t kill their Harmony servers though, fingers crossed !
Who needs any of this digital feces? Not want, but need? I don't have a single problem that can be solved with technology these days.
A certain operating system whose name I won't mention is ending support a day before and now this? WTF is wrong with this world?
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That's why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
You didn't look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
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I don't have one, but maybe sue for source code?