Home Automation – Occurative https://blog.occurative.com Robert Hollingshead's Blog Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:30:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://i0.wp.com/blog.occurative.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-dd9899d2-8d88-4866-b6ea-503bdd099be8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Home Automation – Occurative https://blog.occurative.com 32 32 226310737 “How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not” fully agree with major blogs that seem to just give a nod to “hacking” https://blog.occurative.com/2024/02/05/how-to-build-a-fully-offline-smart-home-or-why-you-should-not-fully-agree-with-major-blogs-that-seem-to-just-give-a-nod-to-hacking/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:30:24 +0000 https://blog.occurative.com/?p=154 Continue reading “How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not” fully agree with major blogs that seem to just give a nod to “hacking” →]]> Unfortunately this Hackaday article, while starting out strong just drops a cynical load of “everything is bad so just let the internet control your home.”

So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have an associated smartphone app, cloud service and/or subscription to enable you to control it from the beach during your vacation, or just set up automation routines to take tedium out of your busy schedule. Yet as much

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