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Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can't access your stuff. But that's just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it's getting worse.

It seems they are planning on dropping an update which will force you to log in. Yep, no longer will your stuff Just Work across the local network. Now it will have yet another garbage "cloud" "integration" involved, and they certainly will find a way to make things suck even worse for you.

If you ever saw the South Park episode where they try to get the cable company to do something on their behalf and the cable company people just touch themselves inappropriately upon hearing the lamentations of their customers, well, I suspect that's what's going on here. The management of these places are fundamentally sadists, and they are going to auger all of these things into the ground to make their short-term money before flying the coop for the next big thing they can destroy.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I want a lamp that fades on as an alarm in the morning, and doesn't require an internet connection. What options do I have?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you're willing to go the DIY route, ESPHome might be what you're looking for.

A Sonoff controller on the lamp, linked to a small Home Assistant server (a cheap Raspberry Pi could do) wouldn't be too expensive and would run locally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people really just have bare PCBs all over their house?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of small cases or even 3D printable stuff available to put them in a nice enclosure. You could also buy something with an enclosure included, like the atom lite which I got some time ago as a cheap bluetooth proxy; https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-lite-esp32-development-kit

I have a lot of ESPs around the house but they are all in enclosures.

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