[Tcepsa]

I love the idea of the Internet of Things, but I hate how it primarily seems to be playing out. I am loath to have anything on our home network that needs a third party server and its own app in order to operate. I do have some smart plugs and smart lights and I love what they let me do--and I am working to integrate them with Home Assistant and cut off all traffic from them to the Internet at the router. No smart TV. No smart speakers. No voice-activated anything (which seems a bit hollow since I also suspect our phones are listening anyway, but that's apparently where I draw the line at my own security theater) but also I would love a voice activated house... once I've managed to set up something like Talon[0] to do it!

[0] https://talonvoice.com/

[XorNot]

I've got all my lights and air conditioners wired up with ESPHome. They live on their own network, run open-source software and can't access the internet - or each other - at all.

IoT done right is great. IoT where it's wall-to-wall corporate lock-in attempts sucks.