Can you use the Boveda Cigar Butler without a smart phone?
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I hate smartphones so I don't have one but my desktop is right next to the humidor... will that suffice?
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Nope, there's no app for your desktop. You need a smart phone or tablet unless you're savvy enough to install a phone emulator on your desktop and run the phone app inside the emulator. (That's beyond my skills, and even still it's not guaranteed to work with the Butler and the Bluetooth interface on your computer)
There's no web interface to the Boveda Butler.
There's no display on the Boveda Butler either, so this product won't be very much help.
I'll bet if you ask nicely you would find a brother or two around these parts who have an old smartphone lying around that isn't being used. All you need is an old phone w/ wifi AFAIK. But I suppose they'd have to load that app on it too, but that's beyond me... Yak?
If you are not using it on a smart phone. it kind of eliminates the benefit of the product. Just buy a hygrometer with a remote display from amazon. I have one with 4 sensors and it works great.
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Yes, you should be able to use it on any device that can download apps. Devices must run Android 5.0+/IOS 11+ (some Chromebooks, Android tablets, i-pad, i-pod touch). Not sure about all desktop since Microsoft but those running Ubuntu or other Ubuntu alternative OS's should be able to.
Go here: https://bovedainc.com/app/
Try it out before buying.
Oh and "hating smart phones" but having a desktop (computer) is kinda of an oxymoron. A smart phone is nothing more than a handheld desk top that has a dialer and cellular technology (bands) and a few extra gizmos built in. In fact, many people use cell phones, mostly older ones, exclusively as small tablets, reading devices or small computers by simply forgoing the SIM card and thus making it simply a computer. Your desktop can also make phone calls with google voice for free so you do in fact have a smart phone. It's just large and not portable.
The government can only see what I type/look at on a desktop, they know absolutely everything I do/say/go on smartphone. Big difference, definitely no oxymoron.
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Big brother is always watching. Doesn't matter if you are on a smart phone. laptop, or JD Burner
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But the masks are breaking facial rec for now.
Windscribe VPN is $2 a month. Problem solved. You can also buy a burner smartphone with cash, at a place with no cameras, use prepaid cards, also purchased with cash from a place with no cameras, plus a VPN and burner or temporary (most are hour long) and then your are essentially anonymous at that point.
A desktop is the furthest from anonymous for most folks. That is unless you use a unconventional OS and stay on the dark web via Tor browser. A lot of people forget one step or another. It's very difficult to remain completely anonymous but a portable computer vs a static computer makes little difference.
Most people pass 12 cameras on average in their daily lives. Nearly every store has them and now, large majority of private residences as well. Not to mention paying for things with credit/debit cards or having services under your real name. Or even all the eavesdropping devices that have microphones and built in cameras.
Big brother is hard to avoid either way, you can hide from your ISP but big brother has been in bed with big telecom for decades. Att used to have a secret room for government access in SF. Imagine how much more access they have now, coupled with satellites, licence plate readers, and cameras everywhere. It's nearly an insurmountable task. What computer you choose to use is literally the least of the issues with regards to privacy.
The only safe space is in your head; for now anyway.
I logged onto one of the social media channels today and I see an add from cigar.com for a digital hygrometer with a remote display. Coincidence?
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No
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
I am not sure I would classify "in my head" as a safe place, but that is just my opinion.
Specifically speaking for my head...I would not claim to speak for others..
Nope
We have facial recognition at work and it works with mask on. Mask is mandatory to come through the gate
Sunglasses and mask? Now you have it beat
Welp.... we won’t be answering these questions in the near future
https://halfwheel.com/boveda-discontinues-butler/392538/
Go figure, all this new fangled gadgets....I'll stick with my two Zederkoff hygrometers...Three years and haven't even needed a new aaa battery yet.
I should really change the batteries in my Boveda Butlers some day.
I got an email that the Boveda Butler will now be known as the CI Smart Sensor.