On 6/2/21 10:48 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic 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 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. It might pay to see if the stuff you have can be reflashed with Tasmota or similar, and be used with a self-contained system like Domoticz or similar. We are using both here with fantastic results, and China doesn't know when we turn our lights on and off, and some suit in a conference room can't just make my stuff stop working on a whim. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA