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>There is no magic feature that is going to make me want a smart home. Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no

>There is no magic feature that is going to make me want a smart home. Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no replacement available, all for very little advantage. Maybe this is Peak Technology. Sticking a computer and communications network on things that gain little from the addition. The one exception I might make is low-cost surveillance cameras, but of course it took the industry about ten seconds to add subscriptions and spying-on-you to the business model.

foobarian 5y ago
It's bad enough that LED lights exploded in variety and change early and often. I had one of ten, 20-year lifespan ceiling flood lamps go dark, and of course the replacements don't exist because these particular lamps were only made during a 1-2 year window. To add insult to injury the fault is not in the actual light emitting element but (of course) in the driver.
- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  > the fault is not in the actual light emitting element but (of course) in the driver.... Being over-driven. Big Clive loves to tear down LED bulbs to examine the driver boards. Often shows you ways to drop the current to sustainable levels and get back your 20-year lifespan LED bulbs (caveat, at lower power levels). https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom More specifically, example: https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4 https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4