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Hi Windexh8er, (Ninja Marcus here) Thanks for your feedback and questions! 1) Nope, no monthly fee. 2) We don't support this today. We think most of the valu
by schappim 14y ago
Hi Windexh8er,
(Ninja Marcus here)
Thanks for your feedback and questions!
1) Nope, no monthly fee.
2) We don't support this today. We think most of the value actually occurs in the cloud. Having said that all our APIs, hardware and code are open source, if you want to implement this you can.
3) The question of protocols (433Mhz or otherwise seems to miss the point of Ninja Blocks (& the Ninja Platform). We want to integrate with ALL connected hardware. We've been working on adding other protocols like ZigBee, Z-Wave, Insteon but they're not ready yet. I personally believe the future is IP.
We've included 433Mhz because it gets people started very cheaply!
Cheers,
Marcus
- windexh8er 14y agoMarcus, Thanks for your response. I'd, kindly, disagree with you on #2. I'm a serious home automation user - and have it deployed in multiple locations for myself and family. I won't buy a controller that banks it's existence on Internet connectivity - there are use cases for having controllers air-gapped, and in my book forcing an API in the cloud is a big miss. Hope you'll reconsider, until then - you won't find me as a customer.
- wallywax 14y agoTotally agree. My home automation system (a pretty extensive Control4 installation) works completely fine when my internet connection is down (except remote access of course), and that would be an absolute requirement for anything I'd install in the future.
- jacquesm 14y agoOne of the few areas where I will not use cloud services at all is as soon as they are tied in with real world hardware. 'value' for you occurs in the cloud, to me it is a privacy/security risk waiting to materialize in some form and it feels grafted on to create a subscription model where a one-time payment would suffice.