Post #1967410
2026-05-04 15:02 UTC
@db i enjoy having smart home, but i think devices like thermometers and lightbulbs etc should never be on a computer network, with stuff like IP and DHCP and whatever. zigbee and whatever sounds a lot more reasonable to me, and perhaps optionally a little dongle for a computer to be able to talk to them
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@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-05-05 07:14
@freja @db And also they consume a way less power, so e.g. a thermometer could last for years from a single CR-2032 battery. Also #ZigBee was designed specifically for the network of sensors with low-power consumption. Manufacturing smarthome sensors with a WiFi was a mistake, induced by low engineering culture and a hurry to jump to a hype-train of IoT :drgn_sigh: