I’m in the “hmmm, I bet I could connect that appliance’s sensors and power to a Raspberry pi and get telemetry and automate it with Home Assistant, something something local Deepseek” stage.
Half the electronics in my house have little parasitic RPi4s reaching into their guts.
Luckily I live in a rural area so I have all of the wifi channels to myself…
personally im not a fan of IoT devices being on my lan, so i would prefer to use things like zwave or zigbee, or just ethernet, minimizes attack vectors which is good.
You really can just put a network connected raspi on just about anything and integrate it into some form of centralized automation.
They’re isolated on vlans and my clients primarily communicate over a VPN and don’t see the LAN. Things talking on the, wired, client LAN that are not speaking wireguard have their ports turned off.
I’m in the “hmmm, I bet I could connect that appliance’s sensors and power to a Raspberry pi and get telemetry and automate it with Home Assistant, something something local Deepseek” stage.
Half the electronics in my house have little parasitic RPi4s reaching into their guts.
Luckily I live in a rural area so I have all of the wifi channels to myself…
personally im not a fan of IoT devices being on my lan, so i would prefer to use things like zwave or zigbee, or just ethernet, minimizes attack vectors which is good.
You really can just put a network connected raspi on just about anything and integrate it into some form of centralized automation.
They’re isolated on vlans and my clients primarily communicate over a VPN and don’t see the LAN. Things talking on the, wired, client LAN that are not speaking wireguard have their ports turned off.