Smart Homes NEED to Change

Smart Homes NEED to Change

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Publish Date:
31 October, 2025
Category:
Smart Home Tech
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Earlier this week, a major AWS outage took large chunks of the internet offline causing absolute mayhem for millions of people across the globe, and even left some people cooking in their sleep, exposing just how reliant many smart homes have become on someone else's servers. Now more than ever local control and privacy isn’t just a nice to have in your Smart Home - it’s essential.

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0:00 - What happened this week?
1:27 - Why can this happen?
2:24 - This is just one of many issues with cloud
4:11 - What can we do to avoid this?
6:26 - The future has to be local