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How many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?

Same goes for pretty much every IoT device that people seem to be filling their homes with.

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This is why, going forward, smart home products I buy have to be zigbee or zwave so I can integrate it with home assistant.

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I thought this comment was trolling then I realized that zigbee and zwave are real brand names. You can’t make this shit up.

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lol from the outside I can see how you’d think that.

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Yeah that’s how things are now.

I was looking for kitchen scale and not a single recognisable brand was there on Amazon. No Phillips, Bosch, Siemens, Panasonic etc.

Don’t know if these companies even make things like that anymore.

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Haha yeah they’re IoT protocols for smarthome stuff. But an open source software called Home Assistant can talk to it, so you can self-host your home automation without your home being subject to the whims of some fragile tech startup and by extension, their investors.

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