Smart Home S**t

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    We have google home in every room and every light and most switches are “smart”. We have an IR blaster (RM mini) that replaces all infrared remotes. Nest cams everywhere. Thermostat. Just went all in.

    I honestly don’t feel like my life is any easier. It took hours of dicking around in 3-4 different apps, creating custom scenes, making sure everything plays well together, and every so often they’ll release an update that breaks everything so i have to do it again. Walking into a room and telling google to turn your lights on take twice as long as just flipping a switch. Half the time you tell her to turn on the lights and she’ll start rattling off locations of all the lighting stores in your area while you just stand there in the dark. Also, you can’t change its name so you have to say “google” every time you want to do anything, which frankly, is some corporate bullshit.

    On one hand it’s nice being able to say “movie mode” or something and have the lights change color, dim, a projection screen comes down, a projector fires up, and the inputs change (there’s a kind of sci-fi satisfaction in that) but on the other hand a smart home has its drawbacks.

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    • It giveth AND taketh, eh?

      I feel too, it's really in its infancy which is not always a great time to go "all in".      ideaist
    • yup same here (Alexa though, couldn't get g-home from amazon where im at go figure)GuyFawkes
    • I’m gonna put motion sensors in each room and have the lights come on automatically so i don’t have to say anything. But that’s $45/sensorscarabin
    • Oh yeah, and if your internet goes out you can’t turn on your philips hue lights. That’s real fun when they’re all philips hue lightsscarabin
    • See, I don't want lights coming on whenever I enter, or when it THINKS someone is coming/going.monospaced
    • @scarabin - could you use ultrasonic distance sensors instead? They cost like £3 a piece.Nairn
    • Yeah but in this case i want someone else responsible for it working, if that makes sense. Thought about making my own system but it’s too much troublescarabin
    • yeah that whole thing when the internet goes out sucks shitGuyFawkes
    • Sounds like a living hellnb
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