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A great example of how fucked IoT devices are. I can't use my Google Home to control my own smart lights. Both devices exist in the same physical space and LAN yet require cloud processing. https://twitter.com/tweethue/status/1080867645858164736 …
It's also a way worse UX. "Hey Google, turn on the thermostat" results in like 5 seconds of latency before anything actually happens. Local processing would make it near-instant.
There are Zigbee/Z-Wave solutions that are completely local, but I don't think any of them support voice control without cloud
Philips Hue stuff all use Zigbee. I actually have a Zigbee USB controller that I've been playing with. You can use http://homeassistant.io to connect it to Google Assistant but seems like a pain in the ass.
Can you think of something they couldn’t accomplish if that were the implementation? I can’t...
Remote control becomes more difficult. But then the cloud service could just be a dumb bridge from the internet to your LAN.
I've been working on a local protocol with security in mind to try and address this stuff. Apple's IoT stuff is my inspiration because their mDNS/bonjour stuff they use is a solid Tech.
There's no need for a few service hops to add five seconds of latency. I'd rather they fix that and not give assistant apps an API to access to my local network. The high-quality voice recognition/generation needs the cloud.
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