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'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells (apnews.com)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Things that can be wifi: my light switches and anything that might’ve had an analog timer back in the day. Anything critical? You can buy an analog sensor that will beep if it’s out of limits, like a freezer alarm.

The rest can f right off.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Light switches can also not be wifi. Hell, id personally prefer them not to

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I only use hardwired Ethernet for my light switches

[–] Halo@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Link to said device?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was being ironic, I am not aware of any such device

[–] Halo@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Damn, I had slight hopes such a thing existed

[–] grinde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

X10 might work if you just need simple signaling.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure they do, but probably in the industrial control sense.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

It might but if so I'm not aware of it

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So regular demotica/hone automation light switches it is

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Obviously it would be a choice to have them wifi or not, opt-in, not opt-out. I wasn’t implying anything should be automatically wifi.