Brian VastagGot a message from Amazon saying there's a service outage so I can't turn on my lightbulb.
The future is awesome.
David J. Atkinson@brianvastag #HomeAssistant
I have had that happen with Lutron devices that use #AWS. There is no good reason for a light switch to be phoning home every 30 seconds. So I blocked it and voila’, the switches went offline. I5 turns out Amazon Web Services hosts a service for manufacturers that essentially vacuums up your home #IoT data so they can use it to train #AI. AFIK, only Lutron caseta wall switches put this connection in the actual control loop.
I have had that happen with Lutron devices that use #AWS. There is no good reason for a light switch to be phoning home every 30 seconds. So I blocked it and voila’, the switches went offline. I5 turns out Amazon Web Services hosts a service for manufacturers that essentially vacuums up your home #IoT data so they can use it to train #AI. AFIK, only Lutron caseta wall switches put this connection in the actual control loop.
Michael Weiss@meltedcheese @brianvastag this is one reason I buy Zigbee devices.