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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Voice control is dangerous (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead, use a UPS that has telemetry that you can read back. Bonus: it's a ups

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. I am using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug.