Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there’s no dumb model available).
Yeah, whether or not a bed should be connected to the internet aside, internet connected appliances should still be usable without a connection.
Reminds me of an anecdote about a company that did cloud-connected toilets (for some reason?) that one user found they couldn’t flush when they had an internet outage. Their technical support suggested they flushed it by filling a bucket of water at the sink to manually flush the toilet, which would’ve been a janky but usable solution, if the user in question didn’t also happen to have cloud-connected faucets.
I once ordered an Wi-Fi-enabled automatic dog feeder because I had to attend a work thing for a few days, and I wanted a guaranteed way for my dog to get fed at a reasonable time (in case of an unreliable dog-sitter).
Coincidentally, lightning fried my modem the day before the feeder was delivered, and I discovered that the feeder is incapable of working without Internet.
So, there exists a product that is 100% dependent on the functionality of some remote servers and all of the infrastructure that connects the feeder to them, or the dog doesn’t eat. Horrible design/engineering.
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Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there’s no dumb model available).
But…why? I can see cloud connectivity for some things… but a bed? The entire point is data harvesting from suckers. Internet of Shit product.
That’s exactly what it is. I wonder if any of the users being “roasted” figured out they ought to unplug it.
Yeah, whether or not a bed should be connected to the internet aside, internet connected appliances should still be usable without a connection.
Reminds me of an anecdote about a company that did cloud-connected toilets (for some reason?) that one user found they couldn’t flush when they had an internet outage. Their technical support suggested they flushed it by filling a bucket of water at the sink to manually flush the toilet, which would’ve been a janky but usable solution, if the user in question didn’t also happen to have cloud-connected faucets.
I once ordered an Wi-Fi-enabled automatic dog feeder because I had to attend a work thing for a few days, and I wanted a guaranteed way for my dog to get fed at a reasonable time (in case of an unreliable dog-sitter).
Coincidentally, lightning fried my modem the day before the feeder was delivered, and I discovered that the feeder is incapable of working without Internet.
So, there exists a product that is 100% dependent on the functionality of some remote servers and all of the infrastructure that connects the feeder to them, or the dog doesn’t eat. Horrible design/engineering.
if i can’t control it with home assistant with only LAN access, i am not buying it.