Ten years of home automation: core devices must work offline
What happened
On November 10, Hacker News' front page covered rules from developer Spencer Kittleson's ten years of home automation. He ran into Google breaking an API and killing a Nest integration, and a Samsung refrigerator screen reporting a TLS certificate error, so he argues core smart-home devices must keep working when the internet is down, with cloud services only as an add-on. His home automation logic runs on Tasmota firmware, an MQTT broker and Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi. For cloud devices, he also requires an API with logs, or he won't install them.
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- Hacker News front pageSmart home devices should work without the internet
开发者 Spencer Kittleson 提出智能家居第一规则：核心设备断网也必须可用，其家中逻辑跑在 Tasmota 固件、MQTT broker 和树莓派上的 Node-RED 上。他因 Google 破坏 API 导致 Nest 集成失效、三星冰箱屏幕报 TLS 证书错误等问题，主张云服务只能作为附加项。他还要求云设备必须提供带日志的 API，否则不安装。
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