Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
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    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      A frustrating number of devices rely on cloud connectivity for astoundingly rudimentary tasks.

      I was once at a friend’s house for a game night and it was really cold; everyone was under blankets. I asked to turn up the heat and they said, “The internet is down, so the heat doesn’t work.” 🤯

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      There’s way too much stuff that relies on internet access. If I’m at home, and my washing machine (which is also at home) wants to tell me when it’s done, why does that need to use the internet?

      I try to stick to Zigbee or Z-wave devices where possible, since they’re guaranteed to be local-only. If I need access when I’m away from home, I connect with a VPN to access Home Assistant.

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Matter is also local—provisioning can be a PITA but once done I’ve been pretty happy with even the cheap Matter WiFi smart bulbs. Home Assistant supports them very well.

        Cheap bulbs can be a little buggy, which usually means I need to power cycle some of them now and then.

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          I mainly use smart switches rather than smart bulbs. Currently I’m using the Inovelli Blue switches which use Zigbee.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I’ve got a Zigbee power metering plug on our washing machine. Set up an automation for it to notify us when it’s done. Just that sold my wife on HA, she’s asking for other things like this now.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      They don’t rely on the server to sound an already scheduled alarm but they do rely on the server to set the next one for a repeating alarm.