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.
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!
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.
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. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA