Blue in Munich
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This consumer wants more simplicity. I’m quite capable of turning a switch on or off, I don’t want or need a bloody app to do it.
Everything going smart these days..
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This consumer wants more simplicity. I’m quite capable of turning a switch on or off, I don’t want or need a bloody app to do it.
That's personal preference, which is fine, but not reflective of wider consumer market trends.
More simplicity is reducing devices, remotes etc. Why have 6 remotes when you could you control everything from one?
Connectivity throughout the home, controlled by a single app with voice activation is the not very distant future. All possible now, and widely mainstream in a few years.
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Alexa is already acting as a hub to control many apps at once
I use alexa to control hive for the heating and some hive bulbs
Then smartlife for a couple bulbs and many bulbs
These all go through alexa which I can do with my phone via the app or just talk to my device
Xbox works with it so can turn that on and use my phone as a remote for watching sky
Have IR sender for the tv so can turn tv on and off via it
All very useful ..
Amazon dots randomly around house to help control everything
Upstairs is a mix of switches and 2 smart bulbs as don’t need them in the nursery , bathroom or spare room
Great tho
Alexa good morning.. turns hallway, living room and kitchen lights all on at once ready
Alexa good night turns off every bulb off downstairs bar one hallway bulb to light the way.. and turns landing light blue as that is a light that doesn’t wake my daughter or wife if it comes on
Still not scratched the surface with Alexa either
Always finding things to do
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
I accept I’m the exception not the rule in this instance and you’ve acknowledged the right of choice
, but those pushing these devices treat you like from from another planet if you’re not interested. ITs almost as though you shouldn’t be allowed not to have them.robinthehood
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I think they 'll end up just being a small part in the overall smart home. I use zero features of the main smart t.v. and only Netflix and BBC on my bedroom tv.
Eventually it will all be run from a central hub in the house.
I can already control my heating, t.v., lights and some plugs from Google, but it's all still to fractured and requires a fair bit of fiddling about to get it working properly .
robinthehood
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Being able to turn stuff of from the phone is great . Kids won't turn off the t.v. and come out for dinner? Tap . Done .
Monitor and control your house while your away is very useful. The problem at the moment is integrating the different competing products and making that a smooth experience for all.
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
I have the opposite view, most things are going to go dumb and everything driven from a single device via apps.
The days of the apps on TVs, buttons, screens and dials on washing machines, fridges etc will end.
A single device in our hand will drive everything one day soon.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
Which is great until your single device fails and you can’t control anything.
robinthehood
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Not a real scenario.
Dibby
Assistant Pro
In what way?
Say you control everything from your phone, and you then drop it and the screen cracks and stops working, or you drop in in the bath, sink, toilet? Not really that unrealistic.
There's a reason that anywhere it really matters redundancy is built it, such as in aircraft with multiple sets of the same instruments in case of failure on one (or unfortunately not in the case of 737 Max AoA sensors, and we saw how that worked out!).
robinthehood
Hacker
If I drop my phone, I can use My tablet, one of the several other phones in the house. One of my 6 pc's. One of the many other tablets. Many of the smart devices have some sort of manual control.
To suggest losing a phone would be a catastrophe is massively ott.
To suggest losing a phone would be a catastrophe is massively ott.
Dibby
Assistant Pro
The response was to the concept of devices having no buttons. If this becomes a reality, there is no manual control. What about people who don't have multiple phones, tablets etc? What about if the central control unit (Alexa or whatever) fails? It won't matter how many tablets and phones you have, if nothing has a switch or button, its unusable.
I'm not completely against smart devices, but from my perspective most solve a problem that never existed and are more useful to the corporations in terms of collecting data and potentially being able to control what people do, (E.g Amazon and Google deciding to fall out and not provide each others services on their devices, or when Google pulled the plug on Revolv and turned it into a brick) than they are to the end consumer. At least with dumb devices, even when the manufacturer stops supporting it, the device can still be used until it physically fails.
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Is it not? Soon as WiFi goes down I have to go old school and use the switches lol however I do like that they made the bulbs and plugs that u can just override by turning the switch off then back on..
clubchamp98
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If its
It’s an accent thing I think.
anything like the voice recognition in my car it will be closing the curtains when asked to dim the lights.
It’s an accent thing I think.
clubchamp98
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Or you drop it in the loo/ sink.
Pop it in the microwave to dry it out, unless you use a phone app to start it 😂
