I don’t understand the mindset of people who buy these things in the first place. Occasionally there’s an article like, “guy’s entire house suddenly inoperable after Amazon ban,” people just don’t think that will happen to them? It is local control on a standardized protocol or nothing for me.
Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat
the_third@feddit.de 5 months ago
Why is nobody here asking for a local API? Are we as techies just accepting that this NEEDS a server component run by the manufacturer?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Probably because they do still have a local API, will maintain wifi support, and can still be used with HomeAssistant or whatever other local home automation server you have.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Furnaces last 20-30 years…
Zero excuse
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The switch part will still work. How are you not getting this?
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Cause I didn’t bother to read it and I assumed standard business practice.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah. The server and software should be open source and API available. That way we actually own the system and don’t have to just toss it out if someone goes out of business.
Fucking ulock for example suddenly wants me to create an account and sign in to their website to use my front door lock! What the fuck is that! We need consumer protections for this sort of shit. I didn’t sign up to giving away when I come in and when I go out of my house! WTF to the max!
Toribor@corndog.social 5 months ago
The newer Ecobee’s can run entirely locally through their homekit integration. I tie mine into home assistant and use it that way. I would never have bought the device if that wasn’t available.
If this old version doesn’t have that available then I’m assuming people purchased it knowing that it was reliant on cloud services. It would be nice if they offered customers options besides just letting the device turn into e-waste but you can understand why they don’t want to burn development hours on a device that’s a decade and a half old.
Just another reason to never buy devices that can’t function without a cloud service.