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Loxone smart home5/4/2023 ![]() ![]() If there is one thing that annoys my kids more than me shouting at them to go to bed, it’s me shouting at them to go to bed, without giving them enough ‘notice’. Chicken dismemberment pushed dinner late, and that subsequently messed up all the timings for my nightly fatherly duties as the ‘voice of shouty bedtime clock’ and chief of first floor curfew enforcement. The trigger event for one particularly difficult evening involved me having to perform emergency triage on four ‘told-my-other-half-to-buy-off-the-bone’ chicken legs. The problem is, they literally have no time for anything I say that involves a ‘ when’. “Here is WHAT I would like you guys to do, and this is WHY it’s going really help me.” Nodding heads all round. They are also extremely appreciative of any expanded reasoning that helps build the case for ‘ why’. Weirdly, my kids are freakishly compliant with any rules that involve a ‘ what’. Let me first put my hand up and say that, we’re a hard-working family, and yes, there are evenings when getting the kids to bed can be, well let’s just say ‘difficult’ is an understatement. Getting the kids green, amber & ‘reddy’ for bed!Ī recent family challenge of my own, beautifully illustrates the case against what I refer to as the ‘smart gadget phenomena’. You will soon realise that more functionality equals more things you must remember to find, update, & check to ensure that everything still works.Įventually, whether it’s matter of poor reliability or no-longer novelty factors (or both) you will find yourself either reverting to ‘the old way’ or looking to buy smart gadget v2, v3 and so on. Without automation, as you add more and more ‘smart’ functionality to your home, what you eventually end up with is a box of buttons for a gaggle of gadgets. ![]() Without this capability to perform even simple integrations, these gadgets will never allow you to achieve smart home nirvana – total automation. Yes, gadgets like these do deliver desirable and useful functionality, but they generally ship with two major drawbacks:ġ) ‘Smart gadget’ vendors typically require you to be wide ‘open’ to sharing all your private data with them, so this can be stored, processed (and who knows what else!) on their cloud-based servers.Ģ) These devices are also technically hermetically ‘closed’ – preventing any custom programming or integration possibilities. Looking for something that enables you to scare off gnome thieves whilst on holiday? I know just the thing. It’s difficult to get through an episode of any TV program these days without learning about some new ‘smart home’ gadget. A smart gnome doesn’t make for a smart home
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