The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
About 10 seconds into reading this I got a &#x27;cute&#x27; drop-down box that greyed out what I was half-way through reading, and insisted that I attend to a &#x27;Get my weekly IoT newsletter&#x27; that demanded from me an email address, name, and company details.<p>The unbearable demands of advertising.<p>EDIT (ADD)<p>I&#x27;ve installed a couple of ESP32&#x27;s with humidity &#x2F; temperature gauges, in two of my abodes, that feed into a prometheus -&gt; cortex store, so I can then map them on Grafana.<p>This is considered &#x27;excessive&#x27; by the family, but for me it&#x27;s deeply interesting and compelling, and I&#x27;ll be pushing more of them out over the next few months.<p>But these are <i>very</i> basic devices, with rudimentary access to the local network, and no way (or interest) in phoning out to anything else beyond my router.   This is the ideal scenario for these kinds of devices.