This community is Internet of Shit, so I need you to be a little more bitter, please.

I wasn’t referring to just toothbrushes but rather, many devices in general. For my personal projects, I tend to have super complex (and sometimes unusual) requirements, so I get that part.

But yes, the fad is still to connect everything to the cloud and install yet another phone app “just because”. Many devices are useful like that, many are not. Having spent quite a bit of time automating my house, I have seen the full gambit of products that are out there. (I am planning an overhaul of everything in a few weeks to get de-clouded as much as possible. Tight cloud integrations are fine, but it’s seriously annoying at times with Samsung and Chamberlain being two fat examples.)

The shattered ecosystems are annoying and can present data security risks. So, I am saying that you should use your brain before connecting anything and not just because the manufacturers tell you to.