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Is there a FOSS/privacy oriented IoT community? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by GluWu@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is there a community specific to FOSS or just general privacy oriented IoT? With plenty of hardware discussion along with software. Routers, piholes, Meshtastic, anything IoT but open source. If it touches a network but you want it to do something it doesn't. Flashing a doorbell camera with FOSS firmware. Hosting media servers on your phones Hotspot. Loading gcode to a printer from anywhere. There are so many things and possibilities.

If there isn't someone should start one, OpenIoT or something catchy and relevant.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Home assistant, ESPhome and Tasmota form a core of this. The self hosting community also has a strong mindset towards security.

The stuff I self host is mostly because I don't trust the "free" services a lot of techies seem fine relying on. I've seen too many providers suddenly go belly up, and screw people over.

I also use defence in depth. The "S" in IoT stands for security.