Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
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doesn't most of amazon's revenue come from AWS? why do they even keep trying with these stupid home surveillance/advertisement gadgets that no one asked for?
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Owning that space in peoples homes is the point, I bought them just for controlling my lights via voice, but the screen started as a clock and weather report and now shows adverts almost constantly.
I’m looking at HomeAssistant as a replacement but you have to realise that unless you are tech savvy, you probably don’t even know HomeAssistant exists let alone know how to set it up for your requirements.
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Not only that but it requires constant maintenance.
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No, it just requires people to run normal fucking updates like literally EVERY piece of software does, even the canned bullshit from corpos.
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Having to do any manual step is beyond what the Echo devices require, they just reboot themselves randomly one day and boom, a whole new new set of features for advertisers.
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Ohh, fully auto updates turned on by default on a shitty IoT device? A hacker's wet dream.
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Not sure who you think you are advising here, but I suspect Amazon is making sure their echo devices are on the high end of security, any vulnerability will get a lot of press attention.
For Home Assistant and other more open devices this is the problem, you either accept a lot of tinkering ensuring it’s updated, working and secure, or it fails the wife/parent test.
Apple, Google or Amazon devices are just too easy in comparison, but you have to put up with the intrusion and ads.
A lot more people are willing to sacrifice data and adverts for convenience.
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Everyone is finding out the hard way that it is a lot worse than some ads.
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What has happened?
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you might want to read that book "the circle". so scandalous it got banned somehweherehre. (actually it's very tame)
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Even with home assistant set up, I still have Google assistant handling the voice control aspect. I might be wrong but I don't think home assistant comes with any voice controls. You still need something else if you want to control it with voice.
Edit: it looks like there is something built into HA called Assist. I tried it a bit and while the basics work, I find it harder to use than google assistant.
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Getting Home Assistant to play nicely with Google without using their Nabu Casa service definitely is a hurdle, but once you get over it, it's super nice. I ended up just blocking Google DNS inside my network to force all the Google home devices to use my internal DNS to fix the https/hairpin NAT issue. It wasn't a big deal since my kids are getting older and I needed to block outbound DNS in general since they're getting savvy enough to get around my content filtering.
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Oh I just paid for Nabu Casa. It's only $65 USD / yr and it supports the dev of HA. I'm happy to pay for it for how much I get out of HA.
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Capitalists love ONE thing in the world.
It's not good products.
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It used to. Now it's more evenly distributed between the various entities.
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