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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThat’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoYou didn’t look very hard. Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoYes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoAnd that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.
That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
And that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.