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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#3
I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on:

    Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to 
    one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and
    Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, 
    and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made 
    by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#4
post #3

I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on: Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

What does that have to do with the link?

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#5
I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets)

https://home-assistant.io

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314

https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4

I wouldn't call it simple to set up, but it was cheap - about £70 (not including Alexa device, which could even be the same pi - https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app/wiki/Raspberry... )

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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post #3

I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on: Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

Do you have any examples?

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#9
post #3

I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on: Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

What does that have to do with the link?

The phrase "IoT" when used by techies refers to things like the link. The phrase "IoT" in a business content refers to things like Amazon Dash; the purpose is not related to helping the user in ways other than monetisation.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#10
post #3

I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on: Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

Do you have any examples?

The mirror rig is at:

https://medium.com/@maxbraun/my-bathroom-mirror-is-smarter-t...

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