re: This is why we can't have nice things. Comcast kills stringify

i dont disagree. i hate wifi and APIs for HA. i was on the zwave train from day 1 but the biggest advantage seems to be the one fricked up the most...local control.

sure alexa is great to tell her what to do but both wink and ST failed to deliver local control of zwave & zigbee. nobody needs a cloud for an on/off switch command.

i know about HA and raspberry pie zwave dongles but i'm too old to sit down & reprogram 100+ smart devices. i hoped and prayed a decent hub would appear that would prioritize local control but its the opposite..everybody wants alexa convenience and they're willing to buy nothing but wifi-crap so they can get it.

its cute that alexa tells me my doors are unlocked at night and offers to lock them for me..but its a good 10 second count at a minimum before i hear them locking.

it sucks. google and amazon are going to win here and of course the cloud is the basis for everything they do so frick the consumer. lets all go buy $15 wifi bulbs now.


eta i was digging stringify because it did allow you to connect websites to lightbulbs and garage doors and weather reports & shite but now even that is fricked. seriously disappointed in where we are 5 years after all this shite was supposed to be taking off.