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The LinkedIn scrubbing is the most obnoxious part of this IMHO - we've learned to expect IoT companies to go out of business or just stop supporting a product at this point, but the people involved trying to pretend they weren't is ehhhhhhh

(highly recommend using home assistant and getting everything onto as much local control as possible, both to own your own data, and to know you aren't dependent on a phone home server being shut off. It can be a bit of a heavy list initially, but getting easier everyday, and onboarding is way quicker than 2-3 years ago)

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You don't even need Home Assistant. Many compliant devices just speak UPNP and have MDNS so you can just use UPNP clients. There's even a nice GTK UPNP IOT GUI for Linux.

You don't NEED home assistant no, but likely if you have many different smart products form many different vedors and want to be able to see what is set to what and set up automations etc it would be nicer than sniffing packets to figure out what you need to say

Agreed. I use Home Assistant to standardize across the various devices I have. I have a collection of misc. Hue bulbs, Tasmota-compatible plugs and other random devices.

HA acts as a HomeKit bridge, meaning that as long as I get a thing working with HA, I can control it from my Apple ecosystem.

Do I need it? No. But it's extremely helpful and still meets my goals around data ownership and no dependency on an Internet connection to turn off the lights before bed.

> but the people involved trying to pretend they weren't is ehhhhhhh

Nothing wrong with removing information about yourself in some random online profile. When the only thing that is coming from that is angry people yelling at you, I'd just as soon do the same thing. I'd get awefully bored of repeatedly pasting something like, "Per a legal agreement I have with my former employer I cannot comment on this issue," and then blocking the sender for their inevitable rage-reply.

Better to just let the rage subside and then quietly add that back in your profile so you can tell a good story about an acquisition gone wrong in a future job interview.

Personally I am highly hesitant to deploy IoT at home, and I will definitely eliminate any product that cannot function without an Internet connection.

Enough of these ephemeral systems that becomes e-waste as soon as the company behind it goes bankrupt.

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