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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[–] Flashy_Loss_5976@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I am a professional CCTV installer and I would recommend against this.

Consumer grade home tech products are way too easy to hack (there are a few darknet diaries episodes about this but a quick Google will show you plenty of examples)

In the rare occasion that we install cameras indoors, we generally wire their video feed via the intruder alarm which means when the alarm is unset (i.e you're at home) - the camera is off. Not just 'not being watched' but completely powered down and disconnected from everything.

I work in the industry and I wouldn't have one inside.

It would be interesting to know why he wants one, there may be other solutions for him...

[–] Electrical_Prior_905@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Out of curiosity 'cause I've been thinking about this stuff for awhile (I'm going to be living alone soon and am a bit scared about it so was thinking of setting up a motion perimeter with human recognition) - what if it was a closed system with no Bluetooth or WiFi based cameras? All wired into a blackbox running a custom built service manager, no WiFi recievers on it, inside a literal locked box.

Still hackable?

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

How are you going to view the live feed or recordings? If you are planning any kind of remote viewing, you're going to need the internet and, boom, it's now hackable. Easy? Maybe, maybe not. But unless you built the whole system yourself, you're not going to know if any of that equipment has a security hole, or worse still, deliberately has a back door like many cheap Chinese cameras do.

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