Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms? by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
I’ve had a Nest smoke alarm for about 7 years. It connects to my WiFi network and occasionally pings a message to my phone that I’ve burnt my toast. Nifty! But, due to planned obsolescence regulatory requirements, it needs to be replaced. In app warning that my Nest smoke alarm needs replacing. ...

I love reading about your IoT journeys @Edent whilst completely ignoring my own. Like that washing machine I have, that in theory is able to connect over the wifi to… yes to what? I guess to some vendor API and I assume it does so over WEP only too. Or our central heater, that used to have it’s own gateway but since the company never got it running they patched it out so now it sits on my regular subnet and sends an occasional mail unsecured to some SMTP gateway. Don’t think it even uses hardcoded credentials for this. Oh the possibilities (and dangers)…

I know. And weep. And I ignore it. I’m too busy with other things than “fixing” or getting this zoo under control. It’s a mess. It’s the Internet of Shit.

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