I’m choosing devices based on how good they work with zha and HA and usually have to browse a bit before settling for something. If they manage to implement this properly, I’m all here for it.
Maybe they should talk to the zigbee device compatibility repository people (or maybe they already have).
We are in a forum talking about Home Assistant, an open source piece of software, aimed at patching over the annoyances and games the various companies you are complaining about play.
It lets you control them all from one piece of software, so you don’t need 20 apps on your phone, and the spying they support. It also lets you isolate the devices on their own vlan, cut off from the internet completely. All control then goes through software under our control.
The database it’s talking about is basically a scoring of how nicely the various devices play once you have deloused and neutered them.
It’s a community attempt to fight back against big data etc. This is why you are being down voted hard. You’re interrupting with a rant about the very thing we are fighting.
I don’t care about downvotes. That is interesting, my point that it’s better to not have internet capable appliances in the first place is valid, as well as the point that you can only minimize the potential to be spied on not eliminate it, I would strongly presume the NSA has a backdoor for instance. Suspect the manufacturers have ones too. Possibly fusible links to brick them all to boot, as is rumoured.
But it’s good to minimize the danger if you insist on having them, and with phones and computers we all do now. The post would garner more engagement and less such flak if it just explained that in the post page and not assume everyone s a linux developer
Or you could realise you are in a group focused on a single bit of software and do a 5 minute investigation into said software.