Comment by jcgrillo
3 days ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it's a pervasive flaw across all these IoT products. See my description elsewhere here about how Haier "smart" controls work. It's completely insane, and pointless. For systems that can't fail--I include heating systems in the winter--this kind of "move fast and break shit" way of doing it is malpractice. The last thing in the entire world I want my furnace controls doing is an automatic OTA firmware update. Ever.
Exactly. I want a "smart thermostat" that's entirely under my control, not the manufacturer's.
And the manufacturer wants something that's under their control, not your.
Then the manufacturer can buy their product because I won't.
But then you would have to configure something on your router and have dynamic dns for remote access and that’s too hard.
Sell an additional $200 box containing a Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant on it and a cheap capacitive touchscreen and pre-configure it with Tailscale. Would be reasonably consumer-friendly. Give it a fancy name and start slapping "{$HOME_ASSISTANT} Compatible" branding logos on partners boxes.
If it's not quite as consumer-friendly as you want it to be, contribute your engineering hours to the Home Assistant product until it is.
Bonus points for giving it 25-250W audio output to power speakers and letting you pair them together to play music in sync across different rooms of your house connected to speakers of your choice.
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I'm hoping that things like Matter and Thread will help with this, but in the meantime, I have no problem with "optional remote-access service that you don't have to use and have to explicitly enable, or you can use it entirely locally".
I already have homeassistant configured for that. Why would I want a shitty vendor-provided version of it in the cloud?
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