Comment by p0w3n3d
7 months ago
That's a standard lifecycle for "smart home" appliances as I've been observing for some time now. Tbh building a home that risks requiring full replacement of e.g. sockets every 3 years sounds at least unreasonable
7 months ago
That's a standard lifecycle for "smart home" appliances as I've been observing for some time now. Tbh building a home that risks requiring full replacement of e.g. sockets every 3 years sounds at least unreasonable
I have ZWave devices that are now 20 years old which work like the day I bought them. Stick with a standard, local solution and you don’t have to deal with these kinds of messes.
Only local solutions. Also local solutions may also fadeout, depending on security measures. But people strive for cloud, turn-on-my-washing-machine-from-work solutions which are doomed to last 3-8 years max