I just bought an Amazon Echo, along with 9 color Philips Hue light bulbs. Got 6 more white light bulbs on the way.
This all got started because I bought 4 of those WeMo "insight" switches and loved the real-time power readings on my smartphone.
Tell me, /g/, did I fuck up? Or is the meme-ery that is home automation really as cool as I think it is?
Are you enjoying it?
No OP, you have submitted to the botnet. Enjoy having it listen in on your household conversations and upload them for the government to keep an eye on you and your family. You did very well.
>>55445022
Enjoy the botnet
If all you need is to control your home appliances using your voice, you're better off with an offline system.
https://github.com/pannous/tensorflow-speech-recognition
Since you're dealing with a limited vocabulary of words/commands, this combined with NLTK can give you very accurate results in realtime. A highend GPU like the Titan Z is required.
Is it possible to do an MITM on this device to inspect the audio data sent to their servers? How difficult would it be to disable the certificate verification on it?
>>55445022
>purposely buying a device that listens to your offline communications
What the fuck, using chrome is one thing, but this is some next level shit.
>>55446208
It runs debian. Should be easy.
>>55446299
>it runs debian
source?
>>55445022
I have an Echo Dot - I live in the UK so it's basically a paperweight. Fuck me, right?
