Hi all,
I’ve browsed around, and while a few questions have been posted a while back about the cloud requirement (Internet Down, Nothing Works?), local vs. remote apps, what happens when there’s no internet, and the mission that ST has to provide a better overall solution to handing IoT, while I’m trying out ST as it stands right now, I feel that having a public cloud-only management solution is a pretty big problem.
I get that the completely ST-controlled nature of the current solution removes the burden of installing/managing the whole set of devices for end-users, but relying on a third party (being ST, from my point of view) to manage everything, is a problem because it makes the consument completely dependent on ST’s cloud software update cycle, and their own problems at maintaining the whole solution (e.g. the OSRAM issues during the last few days).
I for one, for many reasons, and security being the first of concerns, do not enjoy having something that controls too much of my house that I cannot troubleshoot myself, or completely isolate from the outside world. Think CCTV, albeit at the expense of not being able to control my lights from my phone.
Another reason is ST pulling the plug on Hub devices and services, and call me paranoid or pessimistic all you want, but Pebbles consumers don’t like this. And I have not seen ST charge anything for their online services yet.
If I were to suggest a technical solution, I’d be completely fine by managing my own ST deployment via Docker containers in a private cloud, or anything like that. While it’d still be a black box (though I don’t enjoy this much either), but it’d allow me to manage almost everything myself (and revert to something that works if need be).
Anyways, the public-cloud thing is a strong trend to beat, though @internetofshit is good a reminder of all that may happen because of that.
Thoughts, anyone ?
Thanks for reading out 