▲ 113 ▼ Samsung wants SmartThings API users to pay, and Home Assistant could suffer (www.howtogeek.com) submitted 4 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world 61 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip -5 points 4 months ago (3 children) Nah. Online functionality is great for lots of things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (1 child) optional online functionality. I don't want my HA stuff, all on the same local network, to refuse to function because some random ass server somewhere isn't working. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Cloud connected devices should still be able to do all the offline and/or local things when its connection to the server is down. My lights, door lock, air conditioning, and smoke detector all have some online functionality, but they all still work normally locally and offline when my Internet is down, including programmed functions by time of day, etc. permalink fedilink source parent [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago* As others pointed out, the issue lies with it being "need" instead of "can". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (1 child) optional online functionality. I don't want my HA stuff, all on the same local network, to refuse to function because some random ass server somewhere isn't working. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Cloud connected devices should still be able to do all the offline and/or local things when its connection to the server is down. My lights, door lock, air conditioning, and smoke detector all have some online functionality, but they all still work normally locally and offline when my Internet is down, including programmed functions by time of day, etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Cloud connected devices should still be able to do all the offline and/or local things when its connection to the server is down. My lights, door lock, air conditioning, and smoke detector all have some online functionality, but they all still work normally locally and offline when my Internet is down, including programmed functions by time of day, etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago* As others pointed out, the issue lies with it being "need" instead of "can". permalink fedilink source parent