I have a v1 hub and I’m on the original North American cloud shard. I wasn’t able to access the mobile app for several hours last night. But with Lutron caseta switches I could still control some of my lights (even with alexa), and with aeon micro relays I had local control of some others (it’s not that hard to flip a switch). I even had routines and WebCoRE pistons running during the time that others were reporting continued outages.
Even though my hub is totally cloud reliant, I think the 1st NA shard is just prone to fewer problems, and most of these outages have been minimally painful for me. I have no real evidence for that, just my own experience.
@NomadTech has opened up a discussion thread and posted an announcement of a very significant development. I suggest taking any discussion of it over to that thread, but this is a big deal. I’m sure it’s been in the works for a while, the announcement isn’t because of this particular outage. But it does answer a lot of questions.
Harman, also a Samsung company, will take on key SmartThings development tasks including with developing and deploying the SmartThings app, work third party sensors into the SmartThings ecosystem, develop SmartThings Cloud and develop the SmartThings roadmap.
I’m pretty sure this means a full-scale push into the Artik Lego block approach to IOT. Samsung has been teasing that for about three years, but I think this means it’s here.
Again, follow up discussion specific to the Harman involvement should go in the following thread:
So will this be called the “Great Outage of 2018”.
I really like automating my house with ST. I also have a Lutron Hub as well. I think all of the automation features fall into a “nice to have” bucket. But I don’t bet my life on them. I have, and will always have manual backups for everything. So yesterday to me was just a minor burp.
Big deal.
Occasionally about twice a year here in Florida, the lightning capital of the USA, we lose power for several hours. Now that’s inconvenient. But somehow I live through it. When the lights come back on, I am very thankful for the people out there who brought the power back online.
Today I am thankful for the people at Samsung who brought ST back online.
One of the January outages lasted longer and affected more functionality, so I think this one will just be remembered as one of several early 2018 outages.
I’m getting a “not authorized” message when attempting to edit routines. Routines also do not run when pressed. My scheduled routines are running though… Logged with support.
My camera DVR (LA View with great app!) is behind my Piano and a 65" TV bolted to the wall an inch above the piano. Nobody’s getting to that thing before all my alarms go off, my phones are paged, and snaps are sent to my phone.
Are you guys aware of the fallout from the platform outage that people cannot create/modify Routines or Smart Lighting Rules? This is as of 5 minutes ago.
Worth noting there has been no email update yet from ST that the outage has been resolved so my guess is they are aware that not everything is working still. But probably good to point it out (just in case the half dozen or so new threads on the subject haven’t made it obvious).
Ah, I see then. I use Z-Wave Leviton switches and Cree Bulbs and Dome sensors to activate/deactivate them. I couldn’t imagine not having a switch for when I just need to “do” something but I can see how others have themselves in a bind. Sucks
