Out of interest, did you consider Homeplugs instead of the hardwiring in network cables?
that’s proper done me.
It’s all surface fixed and wireless too, so there is no chasing out needed and it can be retro-fitted.
They do smartphone alarms as well, but we were worried about the lack of guarantee for the continued support of the apps needed to work them:
If our one goes off I get an automated phone call. The one we went for is not a monitored alarm, and doesn’t call through to the police, but the former will have a charge, and neither will guarantee that the police will actually come out anyway, so we went for the one we did.
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one thing about this CIA leak makes me think that the increasing usage of the devices has yet to be matched by a similar efforts to secure the protocols they use.
My TV is reet good at streaming on wifi. I’m 3 floors above the router and it streams 4K content fine.
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But then you think a burrito has to have meat in so can we trust anything you say?
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We did, but everything I read suggested that hard-wiring was the better option, especially if you were stripping everything back and re-wiring your house at the same time and were wanting to cater for the possibility of FTTP/cable TV.
It added a couple of hundred pounds to the overall job to have 7 sockets put in throughout the house and back to a patch panel.
Anyone read about the journalist who was killed by the CIA hacking into his car? Even though it’s probably not true it’s something that could happen. Imagine if ISIS or some other slags took control of loads of cars 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Controversy_over_alleged_foul_play
technology = good
capitalism = bad
Yeah, I mean their major flaw (IMO) is that because you can’t put them behind surge protectors, they are massively susceptible to being blown.
With the hardwired stuff, will it be simple to replace the cabling if things upgrade later? I mean is it just going to be a question of taking out the plug points then pushing new cable through? I remember thinking about those people who’d put standard Cat-5 cables through their house before Gigabit stuff came along.
No, it’s pretty much impossible to replace the cable as we’ve not run it through a conduit or duct.
I figured that by the time the cable doesn’t have the capacity, wi-fi would have.
I’ve yet to see any app using the IoT stuff that makes me think it’s actually really useful and not just a toy/something that will take me 0.5seconds longer to do manually.
I worked at ICL who showcased an internet connected fridge about 18 years ago, so this stuff has been bubbling around for a while.
Mind you, with the internet speeds back then, browsing porn on the fridge in the family home back then would be fraught with all kinds of problems.
Some good some bad not ready yet. Shit name.
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IoT as a coverall for more networked devices is a really good idea in industrial sectors where it can produce advances in monitoring, for example; the water industry is very, very into at the moment. Smart iron, though? Nah.
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Coverall? Not enough tea, can’t remember what I meant either
Hey, want to give Amazon the key to your house along with 24 hour webcam access?
Alternatively,
i’m working on an informative video about this right now and it is proper fucking terrifying
Heh.
https://twitter.com/yalesecurity/status/1050048180161789952?s=21
Apparently server went down which meant a load of mugs with ‘Smart’ door locks couldn’t get in or out of their house.
“Sir, from the cctv facial recognition we are looking for a Batman or batmen “