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What happens when your cloud service just pulls the plug - Insteon gone

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Gregg:
Inste-on is now inste-gone; who could have predicted this type of corporate behavior?  :-//

The bottom line is that corporations have too much protection from liability, too little ethics and too much incentive to make a profit above all other motives.  The only solution would be to keep corporations from buying politicians and to make marketing truthful --- good luck with that!  ::)

Meanwhile caveat emptor…. 

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: xrunner on April 19, 2022, 12:20:17 am ---That's inspiring. You know what? I'm gonna unplug my lamps from the Insteon dimmer modules and do something crazy. I'm going to turn the lights on and off the old fashion way - using the light switch!

--- End quote ---

The true definition of a "smart home".

EEVblog:
The CEO LInkedIn is now completely gone.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roblilleness/

hans:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 20, 2022, 03:17:00 am ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on April 19, 2022, 12:20:17 am ---That's inspiring. You know what? I'm gonna unplug my lamps from the Insteon dimmer modules and do something crazy. I'm going to turn the lights on and off the old fashion way - using the light switch!

--- End quote ---

The true definition of a "smart home".

--- End quote ---

Peak "smart home" I've heard was some guy installing smart lamps with motion sensors on the smallest room of the house. And light switches? Humpf, I've got smart everything, so why would you need one of those ugly plastic plates on the wall? Let's plaster+tile over them.
Of course one day his server went down. So he couldn't turn on the light if he wanted to, even though he needed to... :palm:

Now personally I do use some smarthome stuff. Just some basic dimmable lamps from IKEA. But they have a fallback: if the motion sensor in the kitchen acts up, you can turn off/on the power in a brief sec, and the lamp powers up normally.
Likewise, you can set up lamps to go on/off at certain times (e.g. sunset or turning on TV), but there always needs to be a sane fallback to something physical.

xrunner:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 20, 2022, 03:34:26 am ---The CEO LInkedIn is now completely gone.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roblilleness/

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He's got a lot more scrubbing to do. The Insteon website is still up - why?  :-// Oh they feel for the users and left it up for the documentation.  ::)

https://www.insteon.com/

I guess he/they can't get it shut down. His name is easily found there by searching areas like press releases -


--- Quote ---“Insteon’s inherent interoperability with systems and devices makes it easy to extend one’s home IoT devices to the automobile,” said Rob Lilleness, CEO of Insteon. “Our latest integration with EVEConnect solution for Tesla provides our customers with even more options of controlling their lights and other smart devices. And Tesla is just the beginning.”

https://www.insteon.com/press-releases-blog/2018/1/23/insteon-support-for-tesla-with-eveconnect?rq=lilleness
--- End quote ---

I'm probably going to go with a Lutron Caseta system. Simple and has good reviews, can work from the cloud but it doesn't need it locally. I didn't go crazy with Insteon, I just had 4 dimmer modules plugged in to automate a few lights in the house.

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