Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes
ramble81@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I love my Elite but I think it’s absolutely stupid that I have to connect to one of their servers in order to change activities and buttons. There is literally zero reason for that. You could easily have an app that connects locally to the device and can do it there. I could see needing their service if you want to download new remote profiles but that should be it.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Their app is predominantly a web front end. You could previously program your remote entirely via their website years back iirc. They had to program this component as you say for getting new remote profiles.
To be fair, why would they bother programming a ‘local only offline mode’ for your specific use-case when Internet connectivity was ubiquitous long before these devices were released?
Like yeah in retrospect it would be helpful now, but as a business decision it would have made very little sense to Logitech.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
But then how are they supposed to collect data?