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Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The first router to feature IFTTT support is Google OnHub. IFTTT is an abbreviation of "If This Then That," a free web-based service that can allow users to create "recipes," which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, etc. OnHub's smart features can now connect to the 300-plus programs and apps supported by IFTTT. Google provides some examples in its blog post. For example, you can automatically prioritize Wi-Fi to your Chromecast when it connects to your OnHub network after you plug it in to start binge watching your favorite TV show, or to your Nest Cam when it senses motion or sound after you've exhausted yourself from said binge watching and passed-out on your couch. There's a friendly little video Google put together to explain the feature in detail.
A promised update to support IPv6
it has bluetooth but thats not enabled...
they really need to focus on actual networking...
In the realm of what it SHOULD be!
automatically prioritize Wi-Fi to your Chromecast when it connects to your OnHub network after you plug it in
Or you could just leave it always-prioritized, and still have the same end result. Unplugged devices don't use much bandwidth.
Given their past track record of course.
I've seen occasional questions about IFTTT security issues (link, link, link), but nothing that isn't theoretical or speculative. Seems like there are a lot of avenues for compromising your network security and privacy. I'd love to see some hard facts about IFTTT security.
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This is the same IFTTT that was a total dick to Pinboard.
https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/03/my_heroic_and_lazy_stand_against_ifttt/
Covered on Slashdot back on May 29
Sure, let's give more programming power to non-programmers. As if the regular router config options are not already complicated enough for an average person to completely screw things up if they don't know what they are doing. Now you can shoot yourself in the foot in one line or less! Also, I can't wait for IFTTT worms.
A router from google? Not on my lan!
Oh hell no.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'd love to see some hard facts about IFTTT security.
yeah like you can ever get "hard facts" about computer security.
the only "hard fact" is that there are no others.
what a loser
Who is Google/Alphabet going to sell this data to, in order to make a profit?
Yes... I am happy to listen this news and for google as well.
Soon, it will be unusual to stray outside Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay etc. unless you are fairly nerdy. This kind of 'product' will keep you where you are 'supposed to be'. As a friend of mine said a couple of years ago 'I used to surf the internet, now I visit sites'. Enough already.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
shitty online service.
Who cares?
IFTTT rarely actually does what its supposed to, its a joke at best, obnoxious shit at worst. Stop acting like this is impressive.
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Never, ever trust anyone else's router. I have AT&T DSL and I am forced to rent their "residential gateway" to use as my router. I do not trust their device not to snoop on my network and/or traffic, so I put an Rpi behind it to act as a second level, and the RPI VPNs all traffic through a gateway I own on a more trustworthy network. The Rpi is more than sufficient to handle VPN for my paltry 3mbit downstream. That's all I have since I live in the third world country known as the USA.
Expert - shcmexpert. So what if the hoi polloi doesn't know how to code so long as they get to something's with their tech that they find useful or amusing? That is itself helps sell more marginally useful tech and crowd fund even more dubious ideas. Capataism baby.
When he leaves, the door locks behind him -- because he disconnects. Unless his router has a range of a mile, like many around here. Oh, and so when his phone disconnects from the network, his front door deadbolts -- even if it's wide open, in the middle of a party, when he turns off his phone, or has a connectivity blip.
If this then that. "this". In real life, "this" is a multi-faceted, intelligence-driven scenario. A recipe uses ingredients to create a product. "this" is a scenario during which to take action. A "scenario" is as complicated as, oh I don't know, every legal agreement that's ever been used to define anything.
That's what legal agreements are -- A pays B N dollars is the easy part, but when? Ten pages of scenario descriptions and exceptions and how to observe said scenarios.
If Bob's phone disconnects from the network, when the front door is closed, and no one else is connected, and the lights aren't on, and Bob's phone first connected to the tiny network at the end of the driveway, and Bob isn't gardening today -- I guess his garden spade isn't connected to the network, or is connected to the network in the shed...
FIguring out if Bob is still home, when "being home" includes the garden, and the garage, but not the neighbour's house, and not the road hockey game, ain't as simple as a network connection. And it's certainly not as simple as a spotty network connection.
I sure home Bob's party doesn't run out of ice, forcing him to run out to the store to buy a bag, and wind up locking his party guests in his house. Sounds like false imprisonment to me.