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Buying smart home devices with cloud integration also just means that at some point, the manufacturer will declare it obsolete and will rip out support to force
by iSnow 3y ago
Buying smart home devices with cloud integration also just means that at some point, the manufacturer will declare it obsolete and will rip out support to force you to re-buy every 5-7y.
- plussed_reader 3y agoOr shorter intervals if you're Sonos.
- twisteriffic 3y agoOr delete your entire smarthome config during "routine database maintenance" and provide you no recourse other than to wait 6 months for their overwhelmed support to grant you the access key to set your system back up from scratch. Also known as a typical Thursday for Samsung.
- devmor 3y agoOr force you to make an account and opt-in to their metrics instead of using your devices locally-only after years. Looking at you, Phillips Hue.
- dylan604 3y agoLuckily, I just have to live with the nagging box about creating an account, but it continues to work without doing so. I just lose that screen real estate.
- devmor 3y agoFor now. The box informs us that the change is coming, not that it has come.
- tjoff 3y agoAssume you can just connect them to another hub? Doesn't excuse philips but that was at least the only reason I'd consider using them.
- devmor 3y agoI'm told they do in fact work with other hubs. I've yet to try it, but I'll mourn the loss of my scheduling and scenes in the Hue app when I do.