Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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My husband wants to put a camera in our living space.should I be offended ? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by No-Excitement4199@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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We have a simple home(1 floor. 1bath. 2rooms) We live in a calm neighborhood, we don’t own extremely expensive things. And he wants a camera inside our home? For what? This camera can also record audio. We have a child together, we work and we come home. Why do we neeed a camera inside? I feel like it’s an invasion of privacy! I love being silly inside our home. I love yelling. I love singing annoyingly when I’m alone. Should I feel disrespected? Should he feel disrespected? He’s bringing out the “what do you have to hide card”.

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[–] gelfin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

In a former house, the ground floor was an open common area. We didn’t walk around naked down there because lots of windows. In addition to the cameras outside, I did put one in that ground floor space for a few reasons:

Check in on pets.
Bit of paranoia while traveling, like I’d want to check in once every day or two and make sure I didn’t see a raging fire.
We had a cleaning service come in once a week with a frequently rotating crew, and having a visible camera in the house works as a small deterrent against shenanigans.

The indoor camera was set to never, ever record. I figured if we ever had a break-in the alarm would go off and I could connect and start recording as evidence. It never came up, fortunately.

More to your point, though, if my wife had ever breathed a word of concern or discomfort that the camera was to watch her, it would have come down immediately and we would have been having a talk to figure out why she worried I’d do that, because to me that’s a question of trust in the relationship, and it’s best to sort that out on all sides. Like, if I want to know what somebody close to me is doing and don’t think I can get the information I need by just asking them, that’s a much bigger problem that can’t be solved by adding ways to gather information without their cooperation.