Upvoted for the headline. Why do we even need standards like Zigbee (which AFAIK is already the best there is) when we have IP, Bluetooth, WLAN and Wake-on-LAN.
I've really gotten to hate the "internet-access-by-default" rule we have now for "smart home" devices.
And at the same time, I'm not even surprised. I'm not a 20-something anymore who is excited about being able to log into my computer from my Android phone via DynDNS+WakeOnLAN+OpenVPN+OpenVNC/RDP (with a Raspberry Pi 2 as the always-on server).
I'd want things to work like this, however, using the same basic architecture, just with an interface that is as simple as what modern cloud stuff offers.
It seems that some manufacturers are dabbling in this, most notably, it seems that my AVM router would already offer pretty much this, but I'm too lazy to make much use of it.
Today, OpenWRT could probably replace the Raspi easily.
moritzwarhier•3mo ago
I've really gotten to hate the "internet-access-by-default" rule we have now for "smart home" devices.
And at the same time, I'm not even surprised. I'm not a 20-something anymore who is excited about being able to log into my computer from my Android phone via DynDNS+WakeOnLAN+OpenVPN+OpenVNC/RDP (with a Raspberry Pi 2 as the always-on server).
I'd want things to work like this, however, using the same basic architecture, just with an interface that is as simple as what modern cloud stuff offers.
It seems that some manufacturers are dabbling in this, most notably, it seems that my AVM router would already offer pretty much this, but I'm too lazy to make much use of it.
Today, OpenWRT could probably replace the Raspi easily.