@33mhz Convenience, mainly. It's right next to the two routers I have hooked up to the ADSL modem, so just a short ethernet cable to connect the whole thing up to my network. Another benefit is that it'll be out of the way and out of reach from small, curious hands of young children. :D
Listening to the brilliant minds who created the technologies that revolutionized whole industries some 30 years ago is a blast, and I can only hope we document their work as well as possible before they pass away.
Yeah, I have got to check out the rest of this Bill Atkinson interview. Don't care much for Leo Laporte, but the stuff Atkinson says is beyond interesting.
@matigo Seeing how the huge corporations have treated Internet of Things so far, I sure as heck don't trust them.
Still no communication from the people who promised to get back to me Tuesday or Wednesday this week.
And people ask me "why do you want to build your own home automation system"…
Yeah. Gee, I wonder.
Internet of Things stuff is currently more Internet of Shit, or Internet of Temporary Stuff than anything long-term useful.