Anyone else get this email from Leviton about their decora light switches and their changes to ToS expressly permitting them to collect and use behavioral data from your devices?
FUCK Leviton, long live Zigbee and Zwave and all open-sourced standards
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At Leviton, we’re committed to providing an excellent smart home experience. Today, we wanted to share a few updates to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Below is a quick look at key changes:
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The problem with all Home tech I’ve scene you control none of it. Only when you get a full copy of the source code which you are allowed to control and modify to your hearts content will I even consider one of these devices.
While not quite “copy of source code” there are many, many zigbee/zwave devices that literally do not have the capability to phone home. They work fully within their respective networks and only talk to each other/the hub.
Now, the hub can phone home. But that’s when you use something like Home Assistant, which is open source.
The fact that they can’t connect to the internet is no consequence to me and could even be considered a inconvenience. I want something that I can control the entire system. I should be able flash my own software based on the original code.
That’s the ideal, but it’s difficult to do that with every single machine. Like even with a computer not every motherboard can be flashed with Coreboot. The closest you can get right now is probably building devices with the ESP32 chips.
You also can use ARM boards