Should I persevere?

[geko]

@TriOptimum

Samsung / SmartThings advertises this as a fully functioning product.

It goes on, and on, and on…

ST Deceptive Marketing / Due Dilligence

In December I decided to finally spend the money on home automation. Sure, I had some X10 stuff back in the 80’s but never felt the maturity of HA was there for what I was willing to spend. I wasn’t looking to do much more than manage some lights for now and felt that the basic consumer systems would work. When I did my research, one of my criteria was a stand alone system. I didn’t want a cloud or subscription service. SmartThings seemed to fit the bill. Only after buying the system and discovering the forums did I find out that everything is run through a server. Being dependent on a hosted server and hoping it doesn’t fail is exactly what I didn’t want. Plus, it’s a small step from the server just being free to ST suddenly offering a premium subscription service for guaranteed p…