I am failing to see the interest in having tons of IOT devices to manage, connect, segment, etc… Why would someone want to do it? To be clear, I have friends deep in it but… I still don’t understand. Can anyone try to explain the magic I am failing to see?

Edit: Thank you all for sharing your experiences! The ones I found more interesting are those that can easily translate in reducing or tracking consumption. The rest I hear but makes more sense when I look at it from an hobbyist perspective.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Thanks for pointing it out. I have no idea why my account is flagged as a bot account, and I haven’t been able to fix it all this while. At some point I just gave up.

    Ever think about a home-assistant setup for your washing machine?

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      5 months ago

      Haha no worries. You’re a good bot.

      I am in fact. I just got a raspberry pi and want to set up HomeAssistant for everything. I don’t like that if the Internet goes down, all my stuff goes haywire. So I want to get it all on my local network.