This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".
I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.
Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"
Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.
I've since revoked that access.
A while back, I saw a story in the Home Assistant Facebook group about someone's child saying "Hey Google, turn on everything" and it messing things up. I was telling the story to my wife and forgot to replace "Hey Google" with something Google wouldn't pick up on. Oops. It heard my "turn on everything" and chaos ensued. I have some Zigbee alarms that all started sounding. It enabled several different scenes and ran several scripts. All TVs turned on. My Xbox and Nvidia Shield were fighting for control of the TV (there's some issue with HDMI-CEC that I haven't figured out where if both are on, they get stuck in a loop changing the TV input between HDMI2 and HDMI3 about once per second).
Don't do that. "Turn off everything" is bad too. I ~~have~~ used to have my server rack plugged into a smart plug to measure power usage, and "turn off everything" turns that off. I want to figure out how to disable these two voice commands.
I just want to point out that i'd highly advise against plugging in your server rack to a smart socket. Those fuckers randomly cycle. Use them for things that are usually off.
Instead, use a UPS that has telemetry that you can read back. Bonus: it's a ups
Good point. I am using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug.
I'm using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug. I've been using it for three years and haven't had issues with it cycling though.
What kind do you have? If they didn't cycle randomly, i might get some for myself :D
My favourite ones are these ones from Sengled: https://a.co/d/9UPGMTZ
I'm in the USA so these are US-style ones. They support 1800W (which is the max for standard US outlets), use Zigbee, and are ETL certified.
zigbee my beloved :D
thanks so much
I have Meross smart plugs and they don't cycle unexpectedly. They do use older wifi chips though and my Meross garage door opener has issues staying connected for some reason . I've not had an issue with their power plugs though, been using them for 3-4 years as well.
Only issue with wifi plugs is that they want to call home otherwise won't connect :/
There is an HACS addon for Meross to make the calls all local. I haven't messed with it too much but it does work. The issue with my garage door opener is purely an issue with my Ubiquity setup and the fact it's connecting through an exterior wall.
Or syncing with ohmhour, forgetting, removing physical devices and smart strip, later reusing smart strip for aforementioned server, losing your mind every few days when you notice it went down for no reason but no idea why bc nothing in the software you're running is instructing it to do so.