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Smartap - the Internet of (dead) things

This is a home automation product that lets you run a bath or have a shower by voice commands via your home assistant and a remote server. It looks like someone put a lot of work into the design, but it seems like a bad idea to have your shower controlled via a remote server (which is now down). The idea of a glitch or hacker turning your shower on unexpectedly while the door or curtain is open and flooding your house, or even just splurging gallons of hot water down the drain seems undesirable. With no physical override it also means that a system crash, fault or hack could leave you with no way to have a shower, bath or even wash your hands. Then there's the cost of getting a "home automation expert" to repair it. It's an industry flooded with big egos and low trade skills. But Kudos to the people who actually designed and built this unit. It looks like it was a valiant effort to create a functional product, albeit a bit ill-conceived. It certainly looks like it was expensive to develop and manufacture. I did manage to get one of the rotary encoders apart after making the video. It is fully waterproof from the front, with rotation and presses detected by a magnet and dedicated hall effect chip. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- https://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's algorithm quirks, allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty. #ElectronicsCreators