I am failing to see the interest in having tons of IOT devices to manage, connect, segment, etc… Why would someone want to do it? To be clear, I have friends deep in it but… I still don’t understand. Can anyone try to explain the magic I am failing to see?

Edit: Thank you all for sharing your experiences! The ones I found more interesting are those that can easily translate in reducing or tracking consumption. The rest I hear but makes more sense when I look at it from an hobbyist perspective.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    What I really want is a smart home that tells me that the stove is on and been unattended for over 20 minutes now.

    And which can tell me which when I went to bed last night.

    Obviously it would have to be offline not some crowd service lives streaming to the NSA.

    • Maestro@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      Home Assistant can do that. Put a Shelly smart plug in the stove outlet to see if it’s using power (or do you have an old fasioned gas stove?). It can also track what time you turned off your lights last night.