Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.
AnarchoSnowPlow
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Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.
Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.
If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.
Operation Sea Spray
COINTELPRO
MK Ultra
The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.
The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn't notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.
So yeah, it's been useful. It's not needed 99% of the time.