Just more stuff to fall under the FCC umbrella.
I’m keeping my home automation free. I’ve yet to become so lazy that I need an app to turn on my lights or burn toast.
(s) You are hereby charge with the crime of public independence of though.(/s)
please not sarcasm tag.
Reminds me of this scifi short story where parents take their children for IQ tests. If a child is found to be TOO smart they are euthanized. (I think testing was at 5yrs old). The government office did it for the good of the children.
Get up to flip light switch, 5 seconds.
Boot up computer, load light switch software, connect to password protected light switch via www, 15 minutes.
The clapper was way ahead of it’s time.
The most valuable role of home automation is to do things when you are not at home, or when you are asleep, busy, or otherwise unable to attend to the needs of the equipment. A small home - say, a 2BR apartment - does not need automation. A ranch house may need it because there is a well water pump that you run on schedule (at night, when the energy is cheaper) and there is booster pump that you run only when you are at home, and there is water heater and the circulation pump that you run when you need hot water, and there are external lights that you only need when you are walking outside at night, and a pool that comes with a filter pump and a cover pump, and... You can run all that manually, but it quickly becomes tedious.