I am approaching 6 years with SmartThings, but it is quite likely I will not get to 7. I feel let down, ignored and angry at a company that initially made many of my home automation dreams come true. My hunger for more was mostly in line with their promises, but at this point it seems that is all th…

Just got this email - awesome news: https://mailchi.mp/3cc40c582267/see-our-next-gen-of-custom-rules-at-sdc19 [image] [image]

[image] tgauchat: Seriously - I know that can’t help but sound condescending, but I’m genuinely curious. What do you actually hope or expect to achieve here? I often get questions like this from friends of mine on the autism spectrum. (Quite a few are engineers.) “What’s the point?” Is a very…

In reference to Apple creating the Appstore in response to customer demand to allow non-Apple developed Apps: [image] aruffell: Customers knew much better than Apple what was the right thing to do. Is this not an example that contradicts your point? I never said that Samsung isn’t consider…

[image] aruffell: My hopes and desires may not be (ie make webCore part of ST platform now that Adrian Caramaliu works for them) and I don’t fault them if they never come true. We are taking slow and deliberate steps to enable developers to do the very thing you are asking for. A lot of us t…

@jody.albritton - This news (I got the email today) was a VERY pleasant surprise. Integration of webCore into the ST platform was in my ‘hopes and dreams’ given Adrian’s hiring but I was not expecting it. If anything, I figured it would have been a simplified version to appeal more to the masses. I…

[image] Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2019 (October 29-30, 2019) Groups & Events There is some local processing on our hubs. I don’t think anyone is going to argue that we are at 100% local processing, but it’s definitely greater than 0. It’s also a fine …

Thanks @jkp - I knew I wasn’t dreaming things… The post above matches what was my understanding but you end up questioning the veracity when it takes years (or what feels like years - lets not get into a date debate) to get there.

[image] aruffell: Integration of webCore into the ST platform was in my ‘hopes and dreams’ given Adrian’s hiring but I was not expecting it This may be splitting hairs, but it doesn’t sound like they are integrating WebCore into the platform. Webcore is still its own entity that is not mainta…

If the result is a locally executed automation, I guess it really doesn’t matter (to me) how it is achieved… This is probably even better as it opens up options for new alternative tools.

[image] aruffell: Would you mind confirming whether the promised local execution will be possible when using custom DTHs? The standard DTHs simply do not support any of the extended features many of my devices have so they are far from ideal. If the basic local DTHs remain a requirement, that wo…

Is this the beginning of the end of my 5 years+ with ST?

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Is this the beginning of the end of my 5 years+ with ST?

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