• orbitz@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    Smart devices that do not do that would be nice. Like I want a device that I can control through my network, not one that tells the company all my usage of it, or well anything it’s not what I purchased it for.

    I should check into devices that don’t need an external connection, not overly difficult to set up a secondary network that won’t go outside, once I remember how to do that anyways.

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      26 days ago

      Smart devices that do not do that would be nice.

      There’s a whole world under HomeAssistant that you’re gonna love. You can even repurpose the stuff currently connected to the clowd via data umbilical, and make them into internal-only devices.

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        25 days ago

        Hah I may have read home assistant as a description not realizing it’s software for this stuff and not say Amazon’s brand of … Well whatever data collection. I will definitely be checking it out. Seems like what I’m looking for. To be fair I haven’t looked into it much yet but may have overlooked it if I didn’t read this.

        As much as I try to keep up with stuff it’s so easy to pass by software these days. I used to read everything back in the 90s / early 2000s, these days not as often.

        I appreciate the point to the right direction immensely.