What's your ideal feature list for home devices? We had a…
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What's your ideal feature list for home devices?
We had a power surge this morning and my wife didn't understand why I was annoyed about things reverting to "default" states (e.g. the air purifier, dyson fan, and humidity-sensing bathroom fan).
It got me thinking about my implicit requirements for devices, so I thought I'd write it down and crowdsource it.
# The Obvious:
* Local, no cloud! Local Push even better
* Intuitive dumb interface for family and guests
* Wired instead of battery, with easy option to hardwire w/out taking it apart / soldering
* Works without WAN, dumb interface works without LAN
* Well-documented API, ideally OSS
* Rock solid connection reliability and latency (<500ms round trip preferred, <1s max)
# Extended List:
* Persistence of state - goes back to how it was after power interruption / network disconnect
* Idempotent controls - commands have the same outcome regardless of previous state
* Discrete simple physical design, ideally paintable
* Bonus points if I never have to download an app
* Configurable transition speeds (e.g. light dimmers. looking at caseta lutron dimmers as a failure here.)
* Configurable status indication LEDs on dumb control surfaces
What's your list like?
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We had a power surge this morning and my wife didn't understand why I was annoyed about things reverting to "default" states (e.g. the air purifier, dyson fan, and humidity-sensing bathroom fan).
It got me thinking about my implicit requirements for devices, so I thought I'd write it down and crowdsource it.
# The Obvious:
* Local, no cloud! Local Push even better
* Intuitive dumb interface for family and guests
* Wired instead of battery, with easy option to hardwire w/out taking it apart / soldering
* Works without WAN, dumb interface works without LAN
* Well-documented API, ideally OSS
* Rock solid connection reliability and latency (<500ms round trip preferred, <1s max)
# Extended List:
* Persistence of state - goes back to how it was after power interruption / network disconnect
* Idempotent controls - commands have the same outcome regardless of previous state
* Discrete simple physical design, ideally paintable
* Bonus points if I never have to download an app
* Configurable transition speeds (e.g. light dimmers. looking at caseta lutron dimmers as a failure here.)
* Configurable status indication LEDs on dumb control surfaces
What's your list like?
#home
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