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Badly designed smart homes are bad. It’s quite easy to design a smart home that still has light switches but ones which are rarely needed due to the house turning on and off the lights for you.

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bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It seems very easy to badly design a smart home though. For example adding devices to an ecosystem using your personal email. When selling the house you’d have to remove all devices and have the new owners set up everything again one by one. Seems unavoidable until better transfer tools exist OR linking everything to a “house email” OR having everything local and leaving behind the server

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- realitista@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes. Lots of people do make bad decisions when designing a smart home. You need to think it through. This is why it’s best done by the homeowner. Following a couple rules will get you pretty far though:
  
  Don’t install anything that relies on a cloud subscription
  
  Don’t install anything that won’t continue to function as a “dumb” home if the smarhome functionality breaks.
  
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