Ask HN: Trustworthy Hardware Shop?

1 points by ghomem 1y ago ↗ HN

Hello dear HNers,

I am looking for a trustworthy hardware shop that sells equipment suitable for home automation. As of today I am interested in wifi-enabled or lan-enabled thermometers that allow capturing temperature data in a natural way (CSV, JSON, ...) and that do not have spyware, tunnels to the provider network and other IoT anti-features. I might be interested as well in network connected "relays" to power on/off heaters or AC units.

Is there a place where we can buy such hacker friendly devices?

Thank you!

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reghardtpret 1y ago ↗

have you given https://www.tindie.com a shot for this type of thing?

ghomem 1y ago ↗

No, actually the only I used was meconet.de which closed for most of the business. That is why I am looking for options.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Update: this is a very nice suggestion. Thanks!