Home Automation offers the promise of convenience, security and savings. We should NOT have to sell ourselves out to Amazon, Google or others to gain these benefits. You deserve to have control over your own privacy. (That’s what myHome is all about)!
There are too many products that are selling us out.
Even if it is not from Amazon or Google home automation and Internet-of-Things (IoT) products are often using 3rd party tools to connect to you through the Cloud or connect your devices together. This offers the promise of simplicity, at the cost of your privacy. In fact, the invasion of privacy these ‘services’ offer is a boon to them. By connecting through these 3rd parties, they can see when and how you use their product.
These products have skipped the step of building a web-service and are using 3rd-party tools. IFTTT is a great example. If-This-Then-That. Sounds simple enough. Connect one device, let’s say a button from Vendor-A, to a light from Vendor-B. Unfortunately, all of the usage data goes back to the vendor!
Why does the company that you bought a button from need to know every time you press it? Why do they need to know what you connect it to?
Or, why does the company that sold you a light bulb need to know every time you turn it on or off?
Why does your doorbell have to be an open mic, and a continuous stream from your front porch to a massive company with the goal of monetizing YOU? After all, they make money by either selling to you, or SELLING YOU.
It’s MY HOME. Not Google’s. Not Amazon’s. It’s myHome.
With myHome, nothing will ever leave your house. There is no cloud to monitor you, market to you, or steal your data.
The goal of Live Free or Die Software is to create a service to allow you to simply connect to all your myHome systems, but there will be end-to-end encryption, and nobody will ever see it, but you.
And all of our software will be Open Source. If you have the chops, you can prove to yourself that we will NEVER violate your privacy. Or, you can trust the thousands of people who will inspect our code and choose it for their home-automation projects.
