Is home automation a meme or does it really work?

Is home automation a meme or does it really work?

It's not a meme but it doesn't really work.

What app is that?

>home automation
>just lights, a/c, and other stuff you don't need automated
tell me when it takes out the trash and vacuums reliably

how is it automation if you have to do everything anyway just from your phone?

It's not a meme, but it has serious problems with reliability. It makes you dependent on your internet connection, on a cloud service with zero guarantees, on a hundred low quality AC-DC power supplies scattered around your house, and on a ton of software modules written by monkeys that can fail to work in most creative ways. It's only worth it if you're a geek who enjoys tinkering with this shit, otherwise you will waste way more time setting it up and troubleshooting than you will save via the automation.

This is meme automation.
Actual automation should do all this shit based on scenarios, or even on AI prediction of what the user may want. However, the problem is that scenarios are a hassle to think through and set up, and AI is currently too rudimentary to be useful.

>Bed light: Toggle switch
>Decorative light: 2 icons

There's inconsistency in a fucking promo screenshot.

Enjoy waking up at 3 AM because Ivan activated all your lights and started playing the Russian national anthem at full volume

>windows are controlled via up and down arrows instead of sliders
Gross

Unless you are crippled or paraplegic, this is plain retarded. Automation should be either like describes, which is not possible now, or at best a set of profiles you have set up on specific hours/days and require no further input for you.
Also and are very valid concerns and it's up to you to harden your system, cause companies give 0 shits.

Home automation works if you own your own home.

Otherwise, you're not using home automation, but rather messing with someone else's property.

TL;DR anything works if you own the stuff you play with

Your power bill goes exponentially higher since everything is wired to something

Rooms also don't come with just one light and if you live in a moderately sized McMansion good luck managing each and every one of them

If the power goes out you're pretty much fucked

It's a meme. Completely pointless.

My roomba vacuums my place reliably. Doesn't even need to be on a network, just runs every Thursday.

>power bill goes up exponentially
I see that you've never paid your electricity bill.

>If the power goes out you're pretty much fucked
If the power goes out, wouldn't everything be "fucked" regardless of whether or not its automated?

Seems like a very useless comment post

Roombas are good if youre single and dont have time to clean up.
Otherwise, youre just a lazy fuck or a single mother with a sugar daddy.

>Your power bill goes exponentially higher

No it doesn't. Home automation devices do not consume that much power compared to stuff like heaters or electric stoves. If there's anything you should worry about, it's that having a gorillion tiny Chinese devices connected to AC power 24/7 increases the risk of fire.

>If the power goes out, wouldn't everything be "fucked" regardless of whether or not its automated?

Well, there's stuff like automated gas heaters or water valves.
A much bigger problem is that everything is fucked if your ISP or router shits itself, or the "cloud" service throws up an error, drops support for your devices or goes out of business.

z-wave is not cloud-dependant

garbage for apple tier numales. fake technology pushed by intel agencies.

>Otherwise, youre just a lazy fuck
What's wrong with being a lazy fuck?

Z-Wave is just a mesh wireless protocol like ZigBee. It does allow you to make a fully autonomous system, but never underestimate the idiocy of manufacturers - the interface between the smartphone app and the system controller is still likely to be cloud-based.

Some of it works, like having a thermostat on your radiator, or making your house pull down the blinds and ultimately vent when rooms get too warm. Or periodically venting air (maybe when CO2 builds up).

Or making your robot vacuum clean the floor when your smartphone left the AP's range.

Other things are automation of what doesn't really need to be automated, such as turning on lights.

Being lazy is the shit.

Jewgle, Microshaft and Applel software already phone home and respond to direct commands from the manufacturer without the consent of the user. Let's hand over control over the physical objects in our homes to them too, what can go wrong?

>doesn't really need to be automated, such as turning on lights.
Who wouldn't want to walk around the house and have the lights just follow you around so everywhere you go is already illuminated at the same brightness level you've set first?
It would be so comfy desu.

The standards in use today will probably be obsolete in two years, which isn't great for something that ideally should last decades