I feel like, in some circles, the adjective "smart" has gained a highly negative connotation when referring to anything other than a human, as it necessarily implies some sort of resistance to control and ownership.
"Smart" is just about synonymous with "connected" these days, and any product with the originating company in its feedback loop represents a risk that the product will start working against the user in some way either immediately or after some honeymoon period.
A smart TV means it can run apps basically. There is really nothing smart about that... It would be smart if it would mute itself during commercials, for example. All these 'Smart' things should work for me instead of for the vendor really.
Concerning the connected stuff: I ordered a new robot vacuum the other day and checked if it could integrate with Home Assistant and fell into the 'local push/poll' category of integrations [0].
[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...
For those who haven't seen those locks, they look like normal door locks, with a normal key, and are used just like normal locks (insert key, turn clockwise to lock, counterclockwise to unlock), except that there is a small hole next to the keyway.
If you put a working key into one, turn it 90° clockwise, insert a simple tool Kwikset provides into that small hole far enough to press a button at the bottom of the hole, and remove that tool the lock will release the key. You can then, being careful to not rotate the cylinder, pull out the key and put a new different key in.
The lock then rekeys itself to that new key, and you can then turn the cylinder counterclockwise 180° to verify this. Then turn the cylinder back 90° clockwise and remove the key and you are done.
This is quite convenient. I recently replaced my locks with these. Before I had one brand of knob and deadbolt on the front door, a different brand on of level and deadbolt on the back door, and a third brand of knob on the garage door. Each of these locks was on a different key, so that was 5 keys in total. And I'd long ago lost the garage key and the back door lever key.
I bought a Kwikset Smart Key comb knob and deadbolt for the front door, a combo level and deadbolt for the backdoor, and a knob for the garage. So that was 3 different keys. Then I picked the key that had the most variation in the depth of cuts, and went around to the other locks with the rekey tool and rekeyed them all to that key. I also picked up a couple of Kwikset padlocks that use this system and rekeyed them to that key. Later I added a deadbolt to the garage and put it on that key too.
I also had a sliding door lock. There doesn't seem to be a Kwikset Smart Key lock in the right form factor for that, but I noticed that the sliding door lock (a PrimeLine E2000) uses Kwickset KW1 keys, which is the same key blank that Smart Key uses. I was able to take that apart and rekey it to match the rest of the locks.
My key ring now only needs my car key and one Kwikset key. It's a lot less jingly now. If I'm not going to be using my car I just carry a loose Kwikset key in my pocket.