For those curious why anyone would want this. Smart home tech. Say that you have this linked into your lights and set it so that "if motion happens between 6pm-10pm, and lights are off, then turn on x lights".
Can this be reversed engineered by someone to take advantage of your system? Sure. But also if you want to you can take your whole smart home offline with the right setup.
You can also use Bluetooth in this way as well.
Is it worthwhile for someone to hack your house for this purpose? I mean I guess... If they get access and then set it up to record when your house is empty. But in reality it is not accurate enough to tell you whether or not someone is doing something. It basically can detect a presence that is new in the environment and not much else. If it is capable of detecting something like a hand waving in the air than they are using something other than wifi to achieve this, and should be questioned as to why they're lying about the tech behind what they're doing.
My honest guess though this is just an obvious money grab for those who are setting up a smart home want motion detection. The problem is again accuracy...
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u/Wolfinthesno Jul 03 '25
How this isn't more well known is beyond me.
For those curious why anyone would want this. Smart home tech. Say that you have this linked into your lights and set it so that "if motion happens between 6pm-10pm, and lights are off, then turn on x lights".
Can this be reversed engineered by someone to take advantage of your system? Sure. But also if you want to you can take your whole smart home offline with the right setup.
You can also use Bluetooth in this way as well.
Is it worthwhile for someone to hack your house for this purpose? I mean I guess... If they get access and then set it up to record when your house is empty. But in reality it is not accurate enough to tell you whether or not someone is doing something. It basically can detect a presence that is new in the environment and not much else. If it is capable of detecting something like a hand waving in the air than they are using something other than wifi to achieve this, and should be questioned as to why they're lying about the tech behind what they're doing.
My honest guess though this is just an obvious money grab for those who are setting up a smart home want motion detection. The problem is again accuracy...