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| What happens when your cloud service just pulls the plug - Insteon gone |
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| madires:
--- Quote ---With that in mind, our immediate plan is to make the Insteon Hub services a self-sustaining business. This is where we need your help. To properly and responsibly run and support these services we will be introducing a yearly subscription fee of $39.95, or $69.95 for two years. --- End quote --- Rinse and repeat. >:D |
| rdsi:
I was happy to unload my ISY944 & PLM for $1,025 on eBay. For my remaining Insteon devices I use Home Assistant to control them (I had a spare USB PLM) running in a container on my TrueNAS (Scale) server. Works great! |
| NiHaoMike:
As long as they continue to allow the devices to be used locally, I don't see the problem with it. It's OK to have optional cloud based services, holding user owned devices ransom every year without prior agreement during purchase is not. |
| Kasper:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 20, 2022, 11:52:27 pm ---I've had an outdoor sensor fail after a storm which caused the lights to randomly flash on and off; I want some way to manually turn that off without killing power to half the house. --- End quote --- I used to make home automation systems. A wireless doorbell was returned with a similar problem. Sounded really annoying, it would ocassionally ring, sometimes in the middle of the night. Was fairly random but more often during / after a storm. The button net was floating because of a failed solder joint on its pullup resistor. |
| SilverSolder:
There's something to be said for keeping home automation to a minimum, in the long run! |
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