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Looks like they had to delete support for Smarthings integration as a condition for the deal going through: https://community.smartthings.com/t/blink-support-discontinu...
If you own an electric car and are wondering WTF Amazon is doing getting into the car charging business, well, it isn’t this Blink: http://www.blinkcharging.com , it’s some video camera company.
i thought they were getting into Doctor Who episodes about statues that come to life.
Amazon has their own delivery service, bought wholefoods, and now bought blink. Blink has a doorbell offering plus the camera's that you already know of. It's not a stretch to have groceries delivered all the way to your fridge and put blink cameras all over the house to make sure the delivery guy walks back out when he's done.
Amazon has their own delivery service, bought wholefoods, and now bought blink. Blink has a doorbell offering plus the camera's that you already know of. It's not a stretch to have groceries delivered all the way to your fridge and put blink cameras all over the house to make sure the delivery guy walks back out when he's done.
Amazon has got to know their workers aren't that happy, and they need to be monitored.
Amazon, and the rest, figured out how to eliminate the the drudgery, and angst, of having to get things yourself.
Now--they need to keep an eye on the help.
The buy makes sense.
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Amazon is definitely pushing the boundaries of what amount of privacy people are willing to exchange for convenience. I was shocked that so many people I knew bought Echos... wiring your entire house for video doesn't seem that much crazier.
Wiring your house for video is not crazy at all. Wiring it for video where you have to rely on the security of cloud provider (especially a free one) is what's crazy.
I bought a cloud-connected Nest camera to use as a baby monitor. Quickly realized how awesome it would be to have cameras in (almost) all rooms in my house, so I threw the Nest in the trash (terrible product) and got a few Amcrest cameras and hooked them up to a good, well-maintained Mac IP camera app called SecuritySpy[1].
It's great, and completely private, as it (obviously!) should be.
It's also way faster (obviously!) and lower latency when using it on the local network, than viewing video feeds routed through some advertising company's servers in the cloud, even on gigabit fiber.
I love it! Oh and the cameras were only $75 each.
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Wiring your house for video is not crazy at all. Wiring it for video where you have to rely on the security of cloud provider (especially a free one) is what's crazy.
Absolutely! Wiring your house for video is awesome, for a huge array of potential reasons. I bought a cloud-connected Nest camera to use as a baby monitor. Quickly realized how awesome it would be to have cameras in (almost) all rooms in my house, so I threw the Nest in the trash (terrible product) and got a few Amcrest cameras and hooked them up to a good, well-maintained Mac IP camera app called SecuritySpy[1]. It'…
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Looks like they had to delete support for Smarthings integration as a condition for the deal going through: https://community.smartthings.com/t/blink-support-discontinu...
Reading articles like that make me very happy I'm in the self-hosted Home Assistant ecosystem. I couldn't imagine _someone else_ deciding two things that used to work together no longer do for me.
I just don't want to spend a year trying to cobble together my own software.
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I thought they were getting into the web rendering engine game[0]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/blink
If Amazon made a browser engine, it'd be a cloud service. …wait, they already did! The Fire has that.
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The thing that bothers me most is.. Don't people want cookies any more??? When I go grocery shopping, I get a cookie from the bakery. I need to look at them all and pick out the best one. That's how it works! Although I'm sure Amazon will have a solution for that soon enough as well!
Amazon has already been using machine learning to separate fresh vs. moldy strawberries; I'm sure AI will be able to identify the freshest cookies better than humans in the near future.
Got a link to share?
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Reading articles like that make me very happy I'm in the self-hosted Home Assistant ecosystem. I couldn't imagine _someone else_ deciding two things that used to work together no longer do for me.
Is there a good watering hole for self-hosted home assistant development? I was at a Micro Center this evening and saw a AIY Google Voice Kit (not sure if it phones home) and a Matrix Creator (very interesting) plus a lot of other doodads that one could use to build same. I just don't want to spend a year trying to cobble together my own software.
It was much easier than I expected, and works with more DIY things as well (like 315/433Mhz RF Sockets).