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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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[โ€“] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Question: I have a pihole but I have an alternate DNS gateway if it goes down. Is that the right thing to do to avoid "breaking the internet" like this example?

[โ€“] rglullis 2 points 3 months ago

Redundancy seems always a good idea. The only question which server you'd use for failover and is whether you are okay with the idea of your traffic going there.