I have X10 stuff here that's from the early 80s. It's still going strong, although I do lose one every once in a while. Electronics does die.
It's controlled by a set of BASH scripts and a copy of HEYU running on a pi. Chances are the Insteon stuff will continue to work fine with the efforts of many in the open-source community, like OpenHAB, but it should not need to rely on a remote service.
remote services = user is not totally in control and there is a huge security hole in that system.
Yes, old suff dies less quickly
news stuff... designed to break
Old standard are still somewhat supported, new standards.... they tend to do so many things that the protocol is often incomplete
new stuff is designed by shithead it seems when I see the current state of tech, garbage race to the bottom in quality and user satisfaction unless the user is a non tech moron.
we seem to agree on fundamentals :)
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