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02-17-2022, 08:28 AM | #45 |
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Yeah, I view door locks are like wheel locks. They will deter a lesser thief but a determined criminal will not be stopped by either...
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In my hood we had a rash of thefts but it was teens literally going up to cars and pulling on the door handles, finding unlocked cars and rifling through them. One guys car got stolen because he left his car outside with the damned keyfob in it. The moment people stopped doing that all of the thefts stopped. And this idiotic fantasy that, somehow, someone is going to come HACK your home, is some movie BS. Unless you're holding on to something worth millions dudes aren't doing the planning, taking the risk and executing Oceans 11 on your shit. Its teens or crackheads smashing in windows, rifling, through some shit and running away. As far as it being spyware, same thing. Unless you have national secrets, are paris hilton, or something of the like you benefit from "security by obscurity." AKA get over yourself, nobody gives enough of a shit about YOU. And if its corporate data mining you're worried about, LOL, its a little late if youre posting on the internet from a smartphone. Google isnt going to learn anything more from my speakers than they already learned from the millions of web crawlers, affiliate programs and phone data other than how often I turn on lights and shit. You people arent using onion through a VPN on a live OS FOB for all of your web traffic. The big companies already know what makes you cum. |
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The OP of this thread shared his experiences and wanted to hear about the experiences and opinions of others. So you decide to go into attack mode and start calling people stupid, idiotic, and silly just for sharing their opinion? Really not called for, IMHO. And, to be clear, I don’t have sleepless nights or tremble in my boots about smart locks. There’s all levels of criminal. There’s the ones that will smash your window to gain access, and there are the tech savvy ones who'll use completely different means. YMMV. But for those tech-savvy ones, a smartlock is just some other thing to crack, just like the keyfob relay attacks that result in cars being stolen right off their owner’s drives. Smartlocks use some form of wireless to function, and as long as they do that, they are susceptible to hacking. End of. How big of a risk is it? I don’t know. And frankly, I really don’t care as I wont be using one anytime soon. Quote:
Lastly, for the record, I’ve worked in the computer security industry for almost 30 years in many different domains. I also hold a number of security-related US patents. So I know a fair amount about the varied threats and vulnerabilities that are present, and I'd say that my security knowledge is probably just a smidge more than "zero". OP - apologies for derailing this thread. |
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In all seriousness, I had a Valentine's Day delivery arrive on Monday to surprise my DW, and had to unlock the front door to sign for the package. I didn't even hand the tablet back to the delivery driver before my Watch was ringing with a call from my DW from work, asking if I was OK because the front door unlocked.....
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He asked for experiences, you dont have experiences, so yeah Im going make fun of you for sharing unfounded opinions. Ill go ahead and dismiss you now since you obviously have nothing to actually contribute to the subject of home automation. Later Bro! |
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Here's an interesting video comparing standard tempered glass - glass coated with the 3m security film - and a laminated glass composition designed for school safety. |
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02-17-2022, 10:13 AM | #52 | |
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You can have it auto-lock but I often leave it unlocked for parties and friends coming over so I turned that off but after a while it will send me a, "Im unlocked, should I lock" notification as well. Which was SUPER handy as my girlfriend was really bad about relocking after receiving a delivery, which she would do with her regular old deadbolt all of the time at her own house. The funny thing is the security check as part of the bedtime routine. If a door is locked it would just confirm, "the back door is already locked" but if it wasn't it would say, "Locking back door...back door is now locked" and Id sideye her embarrassed face (only slightly, since I'm just ribbing her). |
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being condescending is a trait my parents taught me to avoid. It took me many years to learn and put it in practice.
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Got my HomePod Mini today. Setup was a snap, but now it's downloading an update and it's taking a while. As soon as it was on my network, it started playing a song from my iTunes collection. If there's one thing that drives me nuts about Apple, it's the propensity to always think you want to listen to your music. That said, the sound from this tiny speaker is amazing.
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I wonder if it was a demo thing, to impress you with the sound. The google ones ask you (or kind of suggest) you to do that when you set them up. |
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02-17-2022, 10:47 AM | #57 |
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It could be a demo thing. But when I added my Apple TV 4k to Home the other day, it also started playing a song.
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02-17-2022, 11:21 AM | #58 |
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to be fair I dont thing the "assume music" is an apple thing. My google home ones occasionally will ignore my routine trigger "im going upstairs" (which turns on the light to the stairs, the upstairs hallway and a lamp in the master bedroom, then turns off the entire first floor about 20 seconds later) it plays John Lee Hooker.
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Apple HomeKit to control Lutron light switches/lights and Philips Hue bulbs for socket control. Had/have some Lutron sockets but they are a bit slow and not needed w/Hue. I tested Chamberlin/Liftmaster/myQ for one garage door, works well and will add to the others.
For heat, security, locks and surveillance I use Nest/Yale. Once I find better HomeKit alternatives I will de-Google the house. Geofencing helps turn stuff off w/Homekit and there is always a HomePod or HomePod mini within distance that I don't need to use the phone or watch. I really want to move the surveillance over to HomeKit to keep videos on my iCloud but not happy w/the choices, yet. Planning to replace Nest/Yale locks with Level Locks but need to remediate the front door deadbolt first. PS the value of the locks are not increased security but convenience, notifications and peace of mind that you remembered to lock up. Last edited by omasou; 02-17-2022 at 12:05 PM.. |
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The only audio file that I have on any of my Apple devices is a .mp3 that contains 15 minutes of loud radio static. When it decides to entertain me with music, it just winds up annoying me even more.....
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I had one issue where my new HomePod Mini was in standby mode and wouldn't act as the main router. Then I realized that my Apple TV 4k 4th gen had been previously set up as the Home hub. Once I removed that, the HomePod Mini took over. I just set up an automation to turn on a light when I arrive home and turn it off after 5 minutes. Testing it now (using Test This Automation in HomeKit). The light turned on, but did not turn off after 5 minutes.
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I have a lot of HA in the new house running on HomeKit using a HOOBS bridge:
I'm using a wall mounted iPad in my kitchen as my Apple hub. This works out great because I love being able to tell Siri to turn on lights or set a timer when I'm cooking and my hands are dirty. One thought on having smart locks...while I will admit that nothing is burglary proof, I think it's a lot easier for a criminal to watch a youtube video and make a bump key than figure out how to hack my wifi network and/or my smart lock. My Yale locks have no keyhole to use a bump key.
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Another BIG thing about the Yale locks is they did a smart thing, they slightly taper the vertical edges of the deadbolts. Previously I had another one with a complete straight deadbolt and if someone didnt completely fully close the door and it tried to lock it would stop. The taper on the Yale one actually causes it to PULL the door shut using the taper and latch it. Like the soft close trunk mechanism. |
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Either way I wouldn't worry about it, wifi is just the radio, the signals sent over it are already using their own form of encryption. And again, nobody is sitting outside hacking your front door, they would be able to smash in a window, get what they want, and be gone in the time it would take them to complete any exploit. People with those skills are busy trying to ransom businesses and hospitals out of millions, not some dude out of his 6 year old samsung TV. |
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Hey, I take offense to that! My tv is only 5 years old!
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