Is Amazon beating ST PR?

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

@geko

Wow! That’s the first pretty significant negative verdict from the mainstream media. I guess frustration is not limited just to the posters in this forum. @tgauchat, comments?

CNET selects ST as hub of choice for massive HA project

Definitely the latter: “So Long, SmartThings … We’ve also tired of SmartThings as a hub.” Considering the magnitude of the project (they bought a whole house for goshsakes!), the articles are disappointingly short on details. Somehow I have a subscription to “CNET Magazine” (quarterly), which like many mags is really just a catalog for their advertisers. Apparently Samsung hasn’t paid their extra dues for SmartThings inclusion (barely mentioned in the Spring issue). The web doesn’t have the content length constraints, so the odd choice of focus — home security control via Amazon Echo/Alexa — is frustrating. Yet in that context they are accurate regarding SmartThings lack of Alexa response skills to questions about the current stare of the home, as well as the lack of official suppor…