well, not to have GrizzlyAK feel left out: I tried to configure the new Api (already in the Beta cycle I believe) and got to the CC action, and politely declined. I too find subscriptions to a free service requiring a CC bad practice, and yes, it should imho raise eyebrows.
I deleted OWM integration after that (after all I only used it for certain sensors, not the full set. For which I found alternatives)
I found his remark not raising a conspiracy at all, and I find it to the point of this release, because it was induced by it.
Not blaming HA at all here, itās all in the ballpark of OWM. Kudos to HA for mentioning the Api change, and to the code owner for keeping it available to those who need it.
But, for me, the question was a relevant one, and one raising awareness.
Credit card hacking is like aircraft crashes. They are news because they are rare. Consider the millions of businesses making billions of credit card transactions every day.
Data from Capital One:
On a global scale, total credit card transactions were an estimated 724 billion in 2023. This translates to:
*1.98 billion per day
82.6 million per hour
1.34 million per minute
22,950 per second
When one company is hacked compromising credit card data for a million or so customers is big news precisely because it rarely occurs. Besides, credit card companies will reverse any fraudulent charges on your card.
What scares me is the lack of security in the SWIFT banking system.
Itās quite the opposite. They are so common, banks and financial companies (like visa) developed a lot of complicated processes to deal with it, and they employ a lot of people working just on that. The reason you donāt know about this is because, in typical cases, the risk and cost is on the bank and sellerās side.
A report from Cybernews in 2022 indicates that hackers were able to steal 167,000 credit card numbers. In 2022 there were 1.19 billion credit cards. That is 0.000014%. Yes, it is rare.
I donāt really want to delve deeper into this offtopic here, Iām not sure itās beneficial for others. But I think you misunderstood that report. I guess you just googled it. If you read the first sentence of that news article, it states those 167k CCs were stolen with a very specific malware, through just 212 point of sale devices. Thereās no claim thatās a total number of stolen CCs over a year worldwide (or even just in one country). In fact, on the same website you can find information about almost 2 million CCs leaked on some criminal marketplace.
OK, 0.105%. Still a small number.
Besides, the credit card company is at risk, not the end user.
The bottom line is that you are risking little using a credit card online for something like OWS, or Nabu Casa.
Not everyone uses HA for privacy. I left SmartThings because I did not want to be subject to their crappy new infrastructure or whims. I wanted a robust home automation platform that was open. Having a local LLM would be nice mainly because it would be tailored to me but I am not against a cloud service or a hybrid.
I just updated today and Iām having issues with Alexa. I used to be able to call a service to notify an Alexa device with a text to speech message but now it doesnāt work
And what kind of issues? I am experiencing it not loading after a restart. When started and reloading the integration works again.
I tried removing to ensure there is no misconfiguration. Unfortunately adding it back seems difficult (probably not using correct credentials), so have to look at it a bit more. Iām not using the integration as much as Iād like to so didnāt notice sooner.
Thanks for the suggestion, however, Iāve tried all these toggles/selectors.
Itās not that, and itās not browser dependent either.
Only browser I can see these entities reliably robust in is the iOS companion app.
Anything on my Desktop (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox), including the HA desktop app, wonāt show these entities.
Opening the Inspector and checking the local storage indicates the system want storage write all these selections in the cache, but this is so consuming, it doesnt finish, or gets into a loop or so. takes a while to navigate away tooā¦)
Itās a bug and not yet recognized as such really. Might be because of some yet unknown reason, but running in safe mode results in the same, so at least weāre positive its core onlyā¦
I am not alone, fortunatelyā¦, but really wish this could get some traction
Who is using ai in ha?
The ābestā answer I got. āi can say now āāitās darkāā , and the ha turns on the lights.āā
But maybe , the roller shutters were down?
Anyway, it looks like people are creating problem, in order to use a solution.
I still donāt see,at the moment, any reason to use ai in ha. When itās too dark, I tell Google assistant to turn on the lights or open the roller shuttersā¦
When I work at home, I start the āwork at homeā routine,Which opens roller shutters,turns on lights, starts playing music on the nest miniā¦
In IT, thereās a principle: KISS, keep it simple and stupid. The setup of ai in ha,makes it cumbersome, complicated, difficult to maintain,ā¦
Or do you guys have use ai in a way I canāt without it?
Itās an interesting point. However I remember that when I first got a google home about 8 years ago, I had to ātrainā myself to speak how it expected me to. Now we speak that language its hard to see the value. Watch someone interact with a voice assistant for the first time and youāll see what I mean.
I personally use the fallback conversation HACS, (a planned feature in core). I use simple sentences for simple queries that are answered without LLMs. But I also want it to be able to tell me about the world, define words, offer translations, suggest recipes and so on.
Also there is something so much more cathartic about saying āThe bathroom fan is annoying meā than āTurn off the bathroom fanā.
Also itās nice to be able to chain commands - āTurn off the lights in the kitchen and living room, but leave a lamp onā
āThe fan is annoying meāā¦ I would just say āturn off fanā
What if you say āitās too hotā. Is ai going to turn on the fan? Or turning down the heating? Or both?
Iāll install ai , if I find a good reasonā¦ but for now, I donāt feel the need. But who knows ā¦
