You are one of those people who doesn't get that that is absolutely not appealing to 95% of the population. It might be a fun tinkering project and if you enjoy that more power to you but what those 95% of people would do is at most move that light switch to a more convenient part of the room. I am a big fan of automating things in general in the context of my PC and it is not even appealing to me (mainly because hardware projects do not appeal to me and I don't like to open my home up to security issues), so you are talking about an appeal to a small part even of the geekier part of the population.
The problem with the idea of smart light switches is that they are only useful if you aren't already in the room and turning on your light when you aren't there is a pretty niche use case.
No, the biggest problem with smart homes is that honestly, a switch on the wall that always works, even when you don't have your phone on you and even in the dark when you are half asleep is a pretty optimal interface for things like lights.
Maybe but usually when people talk about Australia in this context they mean the continent, not the country.
So what did doggos do to make their hell freeze over?
At this point I would say I am 99% sure they shouldn't. They are basically all the things that AGI scaremongers always warn us about when they talk of systems influencing society with a completely inhuman decision-making process only without the computer part.
Didn't they already do that decades ago?
I mean by the fucked up definitions in the US boats, planes and ground troops exist in all branches of the military but if you go by actual technology anything flying for more than a ballistic ground-powered throw (like artillery would have at most) should absolutely be considered part of the air forces.
It is not so much that TP-Link is great, it is more that American brands like Cisco keep getting caught putting deliberate security holes like hardcoded credentials into their products every other year or so and yet they seem to never consider banning those.
So when are Cisco and the other US brands stopping their hard-coded credential security holes that pop up every year or two? Because those are a lot less theoretical than this kind of crap.
In a business setting I assume you are in a country with a low level of privacy protection since I can't imagine storing images of everyone walking past your door would be compatible with something like the GDPR.