Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

You are reading a single comment by @brokenbetty and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

Velocio in reply to @dicki
" I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now. "

About as fake as you can get:
1. Google does not offer smart lighting... so this would need to be something else, i.e. Philips Hue
2. Google Home is merely a hub for aggregating multiple vendor functionality into one, so if Google Home failed you would just use another that you'd have already installed as part of the setup, i.e. Philips Hue
3. Smart lighting all keeps hardware switches
4. Flicking a power switch in a full power out scenario always goes to max brightness, daylight temperature
The scenario in the tweet isn't possible... even if they'd said it about a Philips Hue outage it wouldn't be possible as you just flick the light switch.

Of course... maybe the problem is that the person cannot switch a light switch, but in that case getting a smart system enables them the 99.9% of time when there isn't an outage.

•

brokenbetty in reply to @Velocio

Don't know about losing lighting but I do know that with Hue if you get a power blip in the middle of the night all the bastard bedroom lights come on full strength.

•

Mr_Sworld in reply to @brokenbetty

You know you can choose what the default is after power loss?

About

Avatar for brokenbetty @brokenbetty started