No. The last thing we need is yet another subscription priced data silo roach motel that sequesters your data. Any replacement I would consider will have to be open source with an open database.
It's interesting that in India, which inherited some of the worst aspects of British governance from the Raj (like perfecting red tape), there is also strong centralization in Delhi, but the richest and best educated parts of the country are the Dravidian South.
Except IP works far better than Zigbee's alleged mesh networking, and all the other home network technologies because somehow home automation is a special snowflake that can't use the same network technology everybody else uses.
There are a few reasons why Wi-Fi is not my first choice:
* I don't trust any company to use my Wi-Fi and not attempt to access the broader internet. A Zigbee or Z-Wave device isn't going to be able to stealthily update itself in anti-user ways, nor is it going to be hijacked into serving as part of a Bitcoin botnet.
* There are way too many devices, which can cause issues if they're all using Wi-Fi at the same time. Smart homes take a router that would normally be dealing with 2-4 phones and 2-4 laptops and add N bulbs, M switches, P contact sensors, Q motion sensors, and assorted random sensors. Not a chance am I hooking that much up to my Wi-Fi.
Z-Wave LR has worked very well for me—no mesh to worry about, just a controller and devices. The only downside is that it's not as broadly supported as zigbee or Wi-Fi.
Remember that "The West Wing" episode where geographers petition the White House chief of staff to replace the Mercator projection with the more accurate and less Euro/US-centric Peters one? This one looks designed to stroke the Yuge ego of one Donald J Trump...
Yes, a great and educational episode, which is exactly why it's fiction. Although I would expect anyone working at the White House to have seen an actual globe. Well, perhaps not this White House.
Well, I have my primary browser (Vivaldi) set to block ads with uBlock Origin and reject any cookies or persistent storage request that is not specifically allowlisted. The number of websites that fail to load with a JS error, for what is basically a content page that should be static HTML rather than a "rehydrated server-side rendered page", is just infuriating. It's not even as if I disable JavaScript by default, although I really should.
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