Some of these connect to a smartphone App through Wi-Fi. Connecting to internet and uploading stuff are not shown to the owner but might happen in the background.
Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry… but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.
Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent… and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.
Seriously, MQTT on your home server or router or whatever and let things talk to eachother THERE. Keep the conversation INSIDE the LAN. This cloud shit is all about building expensive, unnesscarry dependencies.
For a robot vacuum, wi-fi works best because you should be able to leave the phone in one room while the bot goes clean all the other ones. Bluetooth needs line of sight.
Never used a robot vacuum, but the idea is that you set it up once and never think about it, right?
So you’d set it up once with bluetooth, then disconnect and let it do its job.
Software updates could cause issues, though if they release a finished product it wouldn’t need any or much of those if it works for you already. And updates can be managed over bluetooth.
On the smartphone App, I see a map of all the rooms, and while I sit on the couch, Wi-Fi allows me to watch the robot vacuum go through all the rooms. I suppose if it got stuck, I’d know where to find it. Not critically important, but kind of fun.
I don’t understand why these devices need an internet connection?
Because people are not taught the basics of Lan network vs Wan network and corporations love to exploit this.
During the aws outage i heard multiple people be upset with their isp because “the wifi is broken”
To upload a map of your home duh
Some of these connect to a smartphone App through Wi-Fi. Connecting to internet and uploading stuff are not shown to the owner but might happen in the background.
We need bluetooth devices back, there’s no reason for 99.999999% of devices to have your network password.
Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry… but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.
Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent… and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.
I am too tired to rant further.
100% agree.
Unless they artifically bloat their patch/update file sizes, I’d imagine sending it through your phone to the device over bluetooth would work fine.
I’d even, personally, prefer they use a wifi link directly between my phone and the device while it updates before I give it free access to my lan.
Seriously, MQTT on your home server or router or whatever and let things talk to eachother THERE. Keep the conversation INSIDE the LAN. This cloud shit is all about building expensive, unnesscarry dependencies.
For a robot vacuum, wi-fi works best because you should be able to leave the phone in one room while the bot goes clean all the other ones. Bluetooth needs line of sight.
Never used a robot vacuum, but the idea is that you set it up once and never think about it, right?
So you’d set it up once with bluetooth, then disconnect and let it do its job.
Software updates could cause issues, though if they release a finished product it wouldn’t need any or much of those if it works for you already. And updates can be managed over bluetooth.
On the smartphone App, I see a map of all the rooms, and while I sit on the couch, Wi-Fi allows me to watch the robot vacuum go through all the rooms. I suppose if it got stuck, I’d know where to find it. Not critically important, but kind of fun.