SIRI to control your home? If possible

Today SIRI is one of the most useful and powerful tools that our iOS devices, but sometimes, it is true that some actions are missing. SIRI as such can do million tasks, but for now it only does what Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), wants. Which in turn makes its development and inclusion of functions quite slow and progressive.

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Imagine being able to turn off or on lights from your house just by saying it to your mobile phone, or opening the door of your car, or just reproduce that Playlist that one day you created in Spotify. Well, these things are actions that can obviously be done with SIRI, but for now we depend on Apple to implement them in the future. Or not…

Today we present GoogolPlex.

googolplex, let's say it's a «New SIRI», whose installation can be done in may be made by each device iOS and its operation only consists of divert the commands entered to SIRI  so that instead of going to Google servers, they go to the servers created for this purpose by its developers. For the more technical, this is an attack Man In The Middle (MITM, man in the middle) between the servers of SIRI and Google. Therefore, answers that these new servers are different to which the servants of Google.

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For example: to the command "GoogolPlex, turn off the lights" ("GoogolPlex, turn off the lights"), SIRI and Google they would only be able to return the results of a internet search with that phrase. Instead, that same command re-directed to own servers googolplex, will give an answer that the iPhone will recognize as a access to a third App (the person in charge of managing the lights of a house) with the command that effectively sends the order  delete lights.

Installation

Entering the installation of this "new SIRI", surprisingly it does not take more than 5 minutes and you only have to change one option in the WIFI configuration the network to which the device is normally connected iPhone (the home network is usually the most comfortable). Simply change the settings of the HTTP Proxy network (in the information button of the same). Pass it to automatic and in the URL set: "Http://totally.betterthansiri.com". Since this simple step is done and reconnects to the network, googolplex It will now be available, it would only be necessary to activate it with a first command of those available and as it is the first activation it will redirect you to its website so that you register as a user and that's it. You could already control what comes to mind with your voice and the iPhone.

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Endless possibilities

When I say whatever comes to mind, think that it literally is. In own GoogolPlex website may edit that commands available to your user, so if it occurs to you that you want to put the washing machine with your voice and you have the hardware necessary for this, you will only have to program the command for SIRI, enter it on the website and you could put the washing machine on just by talking to the iPhone.

This project has been developed by a team called Four Loop, a group of four students from the University of Pennsylvania specializing in computer science and business. So far they have achieved the collaboration of companies such as Nest (home automation) and Tesla Motors (electric automotive).

Like everything, it has a problem

Perhaps the biggest problem it has is that, for the most suspicious of the Privacy, searches, being redirected to a new server, which It does not depend nor of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), nor of Google, let's say No. they have all the control guaranteed by official brands, so in that sense the user could find something unprotected. But in my opinion the biggest problem what I see in this project, is that not yet available in Europe.

Source: Four Loop


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