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 10 months 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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[–] umognog@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I have cameras inside my home and want to share something really personal and important about where this came in VERY helpful to have recording all the time.

Inside our home, we have cameras covering all the living spaces: hallway, lounge, home office, kitchen, dining & upper floor landing.

It was part security, part pet monitoring when at the office that it was originally done inside as well as out.

We do not geofence cut power or recording at any time.

Not long after getting it installed on a lovely weekend day, my (then) 14 year old daughter got up in the morning and came down the stairs. The dog had been unwell and so we had an old baby gate across the stairs to stop him moving to the carpeted areas of the house. It wasn't fixed in place, just an obstruction for the dog.

My daughter decided to climb over this rather than move it, slipped and fell.

I won't go into details, but she required an emergency ambulance to accident & emergency and needed surgery to repair significant tissue damage.

Now, I don't know if you have ever taken a teenage girl to A&E with genital mutilation before, but the staff there ask you lots of questions, repeating them OVER AND OVER. This is because they have a duty of care to ensure that YOU are NOT ABUSING this or other children.

My partner however retrieved the footage of the fall happening and sent it onto me and I was able to show this footage to staff. IMMEDIATELY they stopped asking me what happened.

If you have cameras at home and currently set them to not record/switch off when home, I highly recommend changing that setting.