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Insteon goes dark

TSwizzle

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This is a pain in the arse;

Home automation company Insteon appears to have quietly shut down without warning. The abrupt service termination left users with broken smart home setups and plenty of questions.

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I have used these products for years and they were great. Hooked in to Amazon Alexa you could put lights on and off with a voice command. Not cheap and now thousands of users are left in the lurch.
 
The joys of giving your life over to set of software and hardware system that you have absolutley no control over or say in. With tecnology upon which yiu rely for safety like security systems one must aleaus have a backup pkan.

To appropriate a term blind reliance on technology is a cult. Even an obsession.

'Let The Buyer Beware' as true today s it was for the Romans.

If you read the fine print from manufactures I expect you will find variations on theold 'we reserve the right to make charges at any time without warning' clause.
 
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