Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today

Interesting. A long way from MisterHouse. https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse

That cartoon about Siemens and wires etc...it's actually more horrifying than you think. All that industrial control stuff with MODBUS and SCADA and other brain damage: it has even less security than the IoT junk, i.e. none!

I worked on a safety critical system in which we designed security and fail safe right from the beginning. Hardwired state machine controllers for things that could explode. The hardware engineers think that way (thankfully) so we should too. After I left they junked it all and replaced it with Siemens "HMIs" (very expensive Windows XP systems), fancy process control stuff, and then spent even more on fancy consultants every time they wanted to make a change. But at least it was familiar. (I could still access the systems long after I'd left). At least it explains why the real hardware guys (as in actual iron) don't trust the silicon jockeys or software guys: what they have access to us crap.

Bad as home automation is, it is, incredibly, better than your run of the mill industrial automation!

It really amazes me the kind of stuff that will slide in this industry. I have seen the web front ends for the datacenter cooling systems of certain large tech companies where the password is simply password. Nobody cares much about these things, so it goes unnoticed.

Really good, and if you want to add a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI to your Smart Home, you can take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

It works for english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian, and there are more languages coming!

This is the most accurate description of IoT I have ever read.