On 6/3/21 8:03 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 6/3/21 11:32 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
My Smart Home stuff that's tied to the cloud scares the hell out of me. If the vendor decides that they're not making money on the cloud service and everything can become bricked (I have a way around it). But just look at Revolv (Google killed it), Wink, Staples Connect, TCP Connect, Karotz, ... all gone bye-bye.
No offense intended, but I don't know how any intelligent person would
<humor> Too late ... you owe me an apology (Cole Oyl - Popeye - 1980) </humor>
Well...sorry. But man, you had to know that was an awful idea. Sure, the whole world does it, but it's still an awful idea.
Dave, my humor is lost on you (hmm, that might be true of most people ... but I enjoyed it). Yes, it's a bad idea but there are so many bad ideas to choose from. The SmartThings V2 Hub has served it's purpose. It worked for my learning period. I now have the ability to replace the hub with a Pi, ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Bluetooth dongles. I can replace the Groovy code with Javascript (Node-Red). And I can add a lot more than SmartThings. No cloud necessary and I can integrate ancient protocols like X10 in if I choose. I'm pretty sure that most of folks couldn't build this setup (there are a few here that can).
ever buy that sort of stuff in the first place. It's not like people don't know what's going to happen in the end, and that's even ignoring what may happen in the middle.
I did purchase the V2 SmartThings (ST) hub just before Samsung. The hub is great but the recent announcement that ST will brick the V1 hub June 1st (wow, that's blunt) and Amazon's Sidewalk (hey we're going to share your network for our own needs)
Yup. Suits. Don't let 'em into your house, man!
They're already there but by next year SmartThings Suits won't be in my home any longer.
But back on topic, it is amazing at how quick a service gets shutdown leaving you with expensive equipment or something you've hack back into service. I've had many opportunities to do that in a lab.
Yeah, and people know that going in, and they STILL buy that stuff. Unbelievable.
You do know that they'll be shutting down the 4G/5G network someday? Still bought a cell phone? Yes it will be around a lot longer than Wink, Staples Connect or Quirky. But most folks don't know that. And there are enough 'experts' to confuse even the smartest of folks.
On the commercial side Cisco did support a lot of legacy protocols (HP Printing, DECNet LAT/LAST, Bi-sync, etc.) until about mid aughts.
Pretty sure they still support DECnet.
I think you are correct, I thought we were past IOS and onto something else. I'm spending too much time in the SDN. At least they pay well. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies