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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Voice control is dangerous (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".

I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.

Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"

Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.

I've since revoked that access.

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[–] Rin@lemm.ee 46 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I just want to point out that i'd highly advise against plugging in your server rack to a smart socket. Those fuckers randomly cycle. Use them for things that are usually off.

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I'm using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug. I've been using it for three years and haven't had issues with it cycling though.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

What kind do you have? If they didn't cycle randomly, i might get some for myself :D

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My favourite ones are these ones from Sengled: https://a.co/d/9UPGMTZ

I'm in the USA so these are US-style ones. They support 1800W (which is the max for standard US outlets), use Zigbee, and are ETL certified.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

use zigbee

zigbee my beloved :D

thanks so much

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