Automating Offline — The Problem

After suffering major internet outage where I live, and as of this moment I still have no internet to my home it’s made me realise just how dependent I am and I assume many people are.

When it happens suddenly you can be lost and not know what to do and even with a back up 4G data device, there’s just so many things that suddenly become next to impossible.

I’ve encouraged the use of online cloud based automations because of not requiring to be connected to them for them to run. This means if you cannot connect to the internet for any reason that wouldn’t disrupt the automations. This is only one aspect of back up and resilience.

While those automations themselves may continue to run it doesn’t cover other major important aspects.

The first of which is what do you do?

If you have your own tasks to do and no way to do them if they solely rely on a decent internet connection then you are wasting time and causing issues in your entire systems anyway. Not to mention the additional mental stress and frustrations. Backup plans need to be severe in their scope to handle what can and likely will happen.

Having an appropriate list of backup or offline only tasks to make better use of your time is a good thing to have but that’s not really a system backup, that’s only an efficiency measure. If this is something that could be prolonged as far as offline time then it’s time to think bigger and and true alternatives.

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