Belkin WeMo Home Automation - Comments Page 2

Sheer laziness! Good luck when the grid finally goes down or some bored hackers feel like messing with your house!

I love tech, but someday,someway,someone is going to burn their house down.

WOW ... Just what will Belkin and the like, come up with next???

Nope ... Don't want it or any part of it!!!

I love my Keurig and I decide when to turn it on or off, by hand. I love my Crock-Pot and like another commenter said, I don't need a remote control or controller hub, to turn on my Crock-Pot !!! I just plug it in, set my small hand timer and I am good to go! Again, all of this done, by hand.

Bob, you had an earlier article about Nest Labs products, "Your Thermostat and the Internet" and that Google purchased this company. One comment by you ...

"So what's the real reason? Google’s business is collecting data about you and using it to sell advertising. The more data Google collects, the more effective it becomes as an advertising medium, and the more money it can make. Every single product that Google offers has a tie-in to this overarching business purpose."

Seems to me, Belkin may be trying to do the same thing, as Google. Get data, regarding your lifestyle and daily habits, for advertising purposes. Not good, in my book.

'I rush and rush until life's no fun, all
I've got to do is live and die but I'm in a rush and don't know why!' Alabama said it best. There is possibly some good uses for such technology, but much of this is simply self-indulgence. Brave New World indeed!

So far I have WeMo switches controlling lights, humidifiers, and space heaters. They integrate will with the Amazon Echo, which lets me control them using my voice.
Come home at night with hands full carrying groceries? Alexa, lights on! Left home in a hurry and forgot to turn things off? Open the WeMo app, turn the devices off and lower the thermostat as well( Nest or Echobee3 ).

Traveling and want to have lights and noise simulate that you are home? Use WeMo scheduled rules to do that.