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

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NiHaoMike:
Looks like they took the existing designs for their PLC and RF products and added a PIC32 for the networking. Shouldn't be too difficult to make an open source firmware for it.

Or perhaps it might be easier to just take a Raspberry Pi (Zero) and add a ISM RF module? From what I have read, Insteon uses a mesh network so it just has to be within range of an existing Insteon device to get the message repeated onto PLC.

cdev:
They didnt want people finding out how hot their hardware was running?
And ditching it?

--- Quote from: xrunner on April 18, 2022, 01:40:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on April 18, 2022, 01:27:24 pm ---Z-wave. There is no cloud command and control server. It's in your home.

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Yes, and there are others I'm checking out. Back in pre-history I had, I think it was, X10. When I read about Insteon I decided to try it out, I didn't think too hard about the cloudy part of how it worked, perhaps I was too naive.

I'd say about 3 to 4 years ago the original little hub went bad. Turned out it was a part that failed inside I think due to the high heat the unit always had. I had wondered about that heat because it did not have any vent holes in the case. They did send everyone a new hub, which did not run hot (different design) but that was when I realized oh crap - without that hub I can't even control the lights with my phone app.

So whatever I get it won't depend on the outside world to work.  :palm:

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SL4P:
I sad this a couple of years ago….

C L O U D

Centralised Lock On User’s Data

SL4P:

--- Quote from: jonpaul on April 18, 2022, 03:51:00 pm ---a single EMP attack could kill all cloud, internet and devices over an entire continent or country

Back to,1950, vacuum tubes will still  work fine..

Checkout Starfish Prime Pacific nuclear test in 1952

Jon

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Remember, almost all consumer CLOUD junk is hosted in China.
They may close the door any time.

xrunner:
I'm trying to use the old phrase "Every Cloud has a silver lining" here somewhere, let me work on that ...  :-DD

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