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The company Stringify has come out and said that their Stringify service will be shutting down. They are removing the app from App Stores today and the service will operate up until June. They said that their

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"focus increasingly shifts to developing new connected-home experiences at Comcast, we made a strategic decision to step back from developing the app."

While I personally did not use Stringify that much, I had a very limited use for their app that integrated with IFTTT, so I am not very affected by this. However it is sad to see a rather large player in the home automation space shut down. You can find the attached email that they sent out to their users down below.

 

 

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Also, I have no idea why it is addressed to "Shut Down" in the email, not what I put for my Username for the service, but maybe it was to indicate that they are shutting down? Who knows.

 

 

 

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Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

Anyone else weirded out by IOT home automation stuff?  

I don't even consider it. Haven't reached that level of lazyness 

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Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

Anyone else weirded out by IOT home automation stuff?  

Not weirded out, just do not see any useful scenario for them. Not to mention the enormous security risks.....

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Just now, jagdtigger said:

enormous security risks

YEAH THAT!  That's the weird out part. 

Who would knowingly give up that much access to their lives to a corporation that can and will exploit it for their own gain?  And just so you can tell what's in your fridge without opening it (i'm sure there are other benefits but I don't see them being worth it.)?

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Home automation, I can do. Online service to handle home automation, no.

 

While IFTTT is great, I would prefer local control. Nothing wrong with running a Pi image with a localized, NodeRED-based IoT network.

 

 

I for "Intranet", for "Intranet of Things".

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Probably got beaten by much cheaper Chinese home products.

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8 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Anyone else weirded out by IOT home automation stuff?  

I set my lights to turn on if they detect my phone through bluetooth. That's all I've got.

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