S.T.O.P.’s report, The Trojan House, details what “smart home” gifts not to buy due to surveillance concerns, including smart security cameras, speakers, thermostats, vacuums, and other home goods. Released during the holiday season, the report offers a “gift guide” of privacy-safe alternatives to surveillance capitalism.
There's a new EnergyStar-like label program for connected devices—but not cars.
If I wanted to get code-nerdy, I could bypass the whole OpenHAB/Domoticz stuff and go straight to coding. But ouch, there's enough coding involved in the others to make it challenging, and I'd be lacking a friendly digital user interface.
Seems like it's Z-Wave or WiFi. Now I have to decide if Wink or OhmConnect matter enough for me.
Might be the cheapest way to get all the radios, before switching to OpenHAB or similar. I'm not sure it can control WiFi-based thermostats, but the Wiser Air can talk to both WiFi and ZigBee...