I’m one bad day away from going Amish.
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Sr IT engineer here. I've somehow come full circle and now have an entire smarthome setup. It's running on a IoT network so it can't see my other devices, but I'm sure that some poor Amazon employee has to watch me walk around in my underwear from my robot vacuum camera. I just don't care anymore.
Yes to all of the above
I know a guy who works in IT tech support and he always seems to be one of the least tech savvy people that I know.
job probably involves reading off a script 95% of the time, and the other 5% is the same password reset form over-and-over again.
I think of the cost. My smart home stuff gets hacked on it's own network and then? Oh no, you can turn my lights off
I use ZWave with Home Assistant for every light switch and fan in my house. It integrates with Google Assistant, but not bound to it. Google's server connects to my Home Assistant device for control, not the other way around.
The most troublesome devices I have are are some light+fan modules that use WiFi because they run on Tuya. There is really no other alternative and it fails all the time.
Avoid WiFi devices as much as possible, especially those that require Internet. Even Bluetooth is better.
Never use SmartThings. Samsung's AWS-based servers may go down in Europe and lock you out of control. They're just overall flaky to the point I've had to reverse engineer some protocols to control my previous home's mini-splits locally. My current Samsung fridge stops reporting to Home Assistant randomly and I've given up trying to maintain it.
Work IT. Can confirm given the current hackability state of both tech chips and human brains, I'd rather be in the cretaceous.
I mean, what's the worst that could happen?
As an aside, I always got ragged on by my fellow coders for always doing things "the right way", but I tell you, every single time I tried to take a shortcut, there was the raptor.
It was a hard-earned lesson that stayed with me throughout my whole career.
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DDI engineer here. I use smart home stuff. Fully kitted out locks, cameras, Google home, smart lights, etc. that said, I also use pfsense, a dmvpn, and run a private caching name server. If someone hacks into my shit, then I deserve it and will learn from the experience. Also yes, I know the Google home, smart tv, FBI, and the Zoroaster prophet are listening to me, and no, I don't care.
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My security is simply not keeping anything important on my computer/phone so if anything goes wrong, it ain't no thing to just wipe the drives and start over from scratch.