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This is a strange point to make. - People complaining that their IoT device doesn't integrate with Home Assistant anymore... - Solution (?): Stop buying IoT d
by Someone1234 3y ago
This is a strange point to make.
- People complaining that their IoT device doesn't integrate with Home Assistant anymore...
- Solution (?): Stop buying IoT devices so that nothing integrates with Home Assistant.
That's kind of the exact opposite of people's goals in this situation.
- bell-cot 3y agoIIR - the article describes Chamberlain's goal as "force all users to scroll past a bunch of ads in our Garage Door Opener app, in order to get to the OPEN/CLOSE button". To me, that sounds like a worse case than "Just use a dedicated 1990's-tech garage door opener, that I keep in my car". If Chamberlain's cloudy infrastructure was off-line (internet outage, went bankrupt, or the just lost interest), would there be any way to remotely open the garage door?
- psunavy03 3y agoThe MyQ garage doors have both an app and a regular opener.
- sgu999 3y ago> That's kind of the exact opposite of people's goals in this situation. It depends on whether their goal is averaged convenience in the long term. In my opinion, having to deal with this crap always ends up offsetting not having to manually hit a switch.
- internet101010 3y agoThe goal for people using HomeKit is complete control over all things in their house (cameras, lights, locks, etc.). So yeah, they took something that worked fine and intentionally broke it.