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Used to work for the IoT platform that powered Chamberlain devices. Name was Arrayent. Exit seemed unsuccessful: sold to a competitor. Wouldn't be surprised if

Used to work for the IoT platform that powered Chamberlain devices. Name was Arrayent. Exit seemed unsuccessful: sold to a competitor. Wouldn't be surprised if the Arrayent stack still powering Chamberlain IoT stuff. We actually respected Chamberlain a fair bit: wrote the check that started our biz and had a technically capable engineering team. They def do have a monopoly on the garage door market: maybe this a good differentiator for an upstart HW startup competitor? P.S. the phrase "the S in IoT stands for security" was def true in our case https://web.archive.org/web/20150205230218/http://arrayent.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150205230218/http://arrayent.c...

jmbwell 3y ago
This scenario has been the case for more than one brand. A brand doesn't necessarily have cloud/IoT expertise, so they partner with someone else. Time passes, business crap happens, the partnership fails, and the brand itself is out in the cold along with its customers, not necessarily by any fault of its own. And now we have the likes of Tuya quietly providing turn-key white-labeled IoT services to a vast ocean of gold rush products flooding Amazon. Why the dependency on the cloud and the lack of support for HomeKit or Matter in these devices ... I can only speculate.