• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    And it isn’t annoying to have to log into your thermostat every day?

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        4 hours ago

        Either way you need to interact with your thermostat to change it, why add a vulnerability to it that the company may break it at some point?

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      3 hours ago

      Log in every day? Many, if not most, smart thermostat apps have location based features to automatically handle the use case OP had mentioned. You can set it up one time and pretty much never need to interact with it again.

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        1 hour ago

        So your thermostat is tracking your location by GPS to know when to turn on?

        I mean, I guess at least I can see how someone might benefit from it I suppose. I certainly don’t want that though.

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          1 hour ago

          Nobody was asking what you want.

          Nobody here is trying to sell you on one of these, you just jumped in to tell us how you cant fathom why someone would want one and were offered a reasonably common use case as an answer.

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              24 minutes ago

              Or when they find out that their phone has like 30 other sensors used in conjunction with the GPS for tracking that can’t be “switched off”.

              Or that switching off GPS is only switching off the transmission of the data, not the collection of it on the device which then stores it all to be transmitted as soon as you turn the toggle back on.