My case: smarthome integration. It can change the settings if we go on vacation or have a party. It can alert us if our kids leave the door open (has happened twice in a year). It can tell us the temperature inside (and trigger an alert if abnormal). That’s basically it.
Hard no, but tinkering is fun. And being able to check from a distance without having to turn the car around or getting a friend to swing by your house for piece of mind is nice.
As long as you don’t use the default password on your multimillion dollar installation because you’re too cheap to pay for enough IT support, you’re probably fine.
My case: smarthome integration. It can change the settings if we go on vacation or have a party. It can alert us if our kids leave the door open (has happened twice in a year). It can tell us the temperature inside (and trigger an alert if abnormal). That’s basically it.
Not everything is screens and cameras…
Is it really that hard to open a door and turn a knob before you leave?
Hard no, but tinkering is fun. And being able to check from a distance without having to turn the car around or getting a friend to swing by your house for piece of mind is nice.
As long as you don’t use the default password on your multimillion dollar installation because you’re too cheap to pay for enough IT support, you’re probably fine.
Until you find out the vibe coded controller left a backdoor admin/admin login. Hard coded, of course.