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Haier response to my feedback after Louis' YT video.
(infosec.pub)
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
Not stupid, just greedy.
They're gonna make money from selling whatever data they can mine from your mobile device and likely selling you monthly subscriptions.
Lazy would be a better description. They want the tech cred of having it be an IoT device. They also hope to leverage it to get more money. Unfortunately, the budget, and coherent drive for this isn't there. The end result is a "designed by committee" app. It ticks all the boxes, but also misses all the things that would help actually get people using it.
If they were lazy they would have just not done anything and let the HA users carry on.
Just because 1 department is being lazy doesn't mean their legal aren't.