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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[–] Marathon2021@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

My wife puts up with my HA habit, but even I knew that cameras were something to approach delicately. What we sort of fell on - and she is ok with - the following:

Outdoor cameras (doorbells and such) - fine. Adds to security.

Garage camera to check to see if we accidentally left the garage door open while we are away, she was ok with that.

Interior cameras in spaces that generally are not occupied (we have a 5BR house) were ok.

That got us through for a while. But then life circumstances changed and it evolved into us being away a couple weeks at a time on a regular basis. After a couple circumstances where she was worried maybe our house was getting broken into, we agreed to an interior camera in a main living space - but it had to be something that could be visibly seen as to whether it is on or off, and set to automatically go into “off” when either of us are home. We picked a camera from EZViz for that. When you switch on privacy mode the camera lens rotates back into its own body and it’s obvious from just looking at it. HomeAssistant controls automatically putting it to and out of privacy mode.

This made me think — is it maybe a security thing he is going after? Like a cheap, makeshift alarm? If so, just steer the conversation into a security panel instead.