The problem with modern smart home tech is that it all presupposes that no wiring is available: all communication must be wireless.

This makes the whole thing unreliable and laggy, and is a crap long-term assumption. It makes the modern smart home tooling not worth using while it matures towards... more same.

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Tbh we could probably all spare cat 5 no sweat at this point.

What if some kind of low-bandwidth low-voltage wiring like i2c was just standard alongside any power line?

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You know the term "failsafe"? It used to actually mean "if this fails, you're still safe" and be a virtue that was assumed for new technology.

I may have imagined this mythical past, but we should still pursue it.

Tell me about your AI health app.
1. How does it provide services relating to your data without leaking it?
2. How does it access the data efficiently and reason over it [and in light of the latest research]?

Def agree! We’ve seen this during the hurricanes as well. This extends and applies to other tech too - like the people who burned alive in their Tesla bc the circuit board was fried and they literally couldn’t manually open the door

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I think there's wisdom to that popular rejection/simplification: The promise of smart home didn't deliver. I guess I'm suggesting the cause might be partly unreliability. As we add sophistication, we shouldn't be necessarily trading away stability.

i think the vox populi minimalist aesthetic  is also driving the craze away from wired connections. while i still prefer it to avoid cluttering, there should be failsafe or options for wired interface

"I mean sure, sometimes I'm rushing to a room where there might be an emergency, and I want to turn on the light to see the potential blood spattering my walls so I can stop the source, but if it takes an extra sec, I just reminisce of all the convenient times that I was able to ask the AI to turn on the lights at unintuitive times" said no one ever.