I have been chosen as one of the lucky few to trial the SmartThings hub here in the UK and I received my hub in the post yesterday. I’m looking forward to testing it thoroughly over the weekend but one thing I was eagerly wanting to try straight out of the box was the IFTTT integration.
Unfortunately the OAuth problem mentioned above has stopped that. I agree with Dean - perhaps it would have been better to delay the trial until issues like this were resolved? Just because as it stands it feels as though there’s not a huge deal I can do (my home contains very little integrable things e.g. Philips Hue, Sonus etc…
I was really hoping deep down that the ‘trial’ participants might actually be testing the full package (eg OAuth was fixed for a select few and they would get to test the working setup ahead of a larger roll out to rest of us that bought our place on the trial at full RRP)… gutted to hear you are also in the same boat @Hilly_2015
Absolutely pointless trial at this point imo… i suppose it will at least ready the returns departments for the influx of paying customers who give up on it too
Don’t forget the SmartThings Trial being run by The Insiders is not a beta/pre-release trial that some may be familiar with. The purpose of this trial is Word of Mouth (WoM) and is primarily designed to use normal people to market the product using all modes of communication (physically by mouth, social networking etc). The more people on-board the wider the spread marketing and hopefully an increase in sales.
So just spotted this buried down in the “give reactions” bit of one of theinsiders blog posts…
"15/10 - 16:36
Insider_Astrid
Those who haven’t received their parcel, send us an email (infouk@theinsiders.eu) and we will help you further. The UPS delivery lists will be sent to us as soon as possible. "
I have emailed them just now and also “given a reaction” to their “reaction”, obviously at this point my real “reaction” isn’t suitable for posting in their blog
Note to self- if I ever start up a word of mouth marketing company… ensure I don’t repeatedly cause frustration over a period of weeks to the people I want to say nice things about my clients products, especially before I have even got the test package to them… (actually I work in software design and delivery… at this tage theinsiders feel more like an outsourced software house than a marketing company )
I just had a response to my email; they have provided me with the tracking number and I have just been and collected the package. It looks like it has been waiting for me all along but without an email from UPS i never knew it was there.
Yay… Just done the same apparently it’s been ten minutes walk from my house since Monday… So not only a trial of Smart things but seemingly a trial of UPS’s tracking numbers by telepathy service
Picking mine up in Bletchley and there are two more for MK7 and LU7 … If that’s you check your collection location if it’s Voltz in Bletchley its there for you
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