If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
  • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    That kinda sucks, especially since even the older ones work with Home Assistant etc directly now

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I was on iobroker at that time and HA still wore diapers 😁 So today it Wouldn’t be as bad, but at that time they were just effectively rendered dumb cubes to us.

      • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        29 minutes ago

        I think that the cloud system might be needed to initially pair the speaker to a network+account, but apart from that no. The speakers in my media network are not allowed Internet access.