Umm, I was speaking about myself as well when I talked about this setup. There is nothing that phones home here. Almond for voice recognition, Zwave for the switches, movie served by Jellyfin, TV and Receiver blocked by OPNSense firewall with VLANs.
It's valuable and useful to me, and if it could be setup up easily, I'm sure others would love it to.
Ironically I also have two japanese toilets in my house.
This is a real MVP of the work from home life. Some of them, like the Arctis I have, will present two devices to the computer, so you can have music playing quietly under a meeting, but still have voice for calls at a good quality and controlled independently.
Obviously some of them need to phone home, I'm talking about the ones that don't need to. And, just because it can't phone home doesn't mean it should stop working altogether.
I’ve used to live in an inter generational big house (Italians am I right… even if we are not actually born there we still have spaghetti dna). Anyway I’ve setup one very lightweight asterix instance of statically defined accounts. A few cheap voip phones were installed through the house plus soft phones on personal smartphones.
It was supposed to make things more convenient. Supposed to, because we just kept yelling to convey messages. When I’ve moved out I’ve dismantled the system since I wouldn’t be there to keep it maintained.
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