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Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer at Athom. We at Athom, a smart home startup based in the Netherlands, are releasing the Homey very soon. It features an ope

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer at Athom. We at Athom, a smart home startup based in the Netherlands, are releasing the Homey very soon. It features an open app platform based on NodeJS, has support for Z-Wave, 868MHz, 433MHz, Zigbee, IR, WiFi and Bluetooth, not to mention it has some pretty decent voice recognition as well. It isn't strictly speaking open source as the core of our software is proprietary, but we're trying to contribute back to the community on every piece of open source software we do use. We've opened pull requests on various NodeJS projects, we have someone actively working on Linux kernel development (primarily drivers), and every protocol we add support for is open sourced on our GitHub account. We maintain the node-nfc npm module, and are contributors to a handful of other projects. We're about the closest you can come right now to a functioning smart home hub incorporating lots of open source elements, while still having the advantages of corporate backing. Feel free to browse around on our website (http://athom.com/ http://athom.com/) or on our GitHub: https://github.com/athombv https://github.com/athombv

dsr_ 10y ago
Here's the basic question: if Athom is purchased by Amazon a year after I buy a Homey, how long will it continue to function after Amazon turns off your servers? (The answer needs to be along the lines of: "the product will be accessible and configurable from the built-in web service and API until the hardware breaks. Extra services provided by Athom subscription will stop working, but you could provide many of them yourself if you have your own server and are competent to read our documentation.")
- superice 10y ago
  That is pretty much the answer, yes. Sure, some features will break, like out-of-the-box speech to text, but most of the core functionality will continue to work properly, and it definitely won't be a Revolv 2.0 :)

dsr_ 10y ago

Here's the basic question: if Athom is purchased by Amazon a year after I buy a Homey, how long will it continue to function after Amazon turns off your servers? (The answer needs to be along the lines of: "the product will be accessible and configurable from the built-in web service and API until the hardware breaks. Extra services provided by Athom subscription will stop working, but you could provide many of them yourself if you have your own server and are competent to read our documentation.")

superice 10y ago
That is pretty much the answer, yes. Sure, some features will break, like out-of-the-box speech to text, but most of the core functionality will continue to work properly, and it definitely won't be a Revolv 2.0 :)