I belive in tiers and options. Perhaps they could give us a Z-wave/zigbee cloud backup for $100 a year and then perhaps they enable a setting on our device that lets us save z-wave/zigbee local without cloud that costs, say $30/year. then lets say device protection that would cost us $150 a year that lets us do all of this.
IDK. I always like a little option, though i do admit i mull over all of them all the time, but I like the option, for some people who rather save some $$$, but costs nothing on their cloud servers. just an idea.
Iām not exactly an expert in blue iris, but Blinkās system is pretty closed and Iām not sure how it would integrate with BI. But as @Angus_M pointed out, thereās a new community integration in an alpha stage of development.
I'm a bit torn here. I'm all for supporting a service that adds value to me especially when they're introducing new features... and in theory, this paid tier should improve the performance.
But they're starting this off by taking away features from existing users, so what's to say they won't take features away again later... maybe introduce a higher level tier and move some of the features I use into that tier.
I understand your concern, and it could possibly happen. However, the existing users were non-paying customers. I think it's less likely they would take features away from paying customers, but of course it's possible.
I'm more concerned with the long term viability of IFTTT. Is it profitable now? Will it continue to be profitable? If not, it will go away at some point in the future.
I know most people hate subscriptions. But in my opinion, without the ongoing income subscriptions provide, most of these internet/software service businesses cannot survive long term.
In any case, I think $1.99 per month is reasonable for the convenience IFTTT offers me. At that price point it won't break the bank. If the price is raised in the future, or the service shuts down, I'll just deal with that if and when it happens.
I got an email tonight saying I could pick my monthly price now, and they would honor it forever. Still wont do it, It isn't reliable enough for me to pay for it, it was barely reliable enough to use for free.
I signed up for a free account ages ago, when I first bought my first Smart Life outlet and had never heard of SmartThings or Hubitat. But never used it as it seems a bit pointless given that I switched to Hubitat to remove my dependency on the cloud.
So last week I signed up for the $1.99 plan, thinking it would be fun to play around with and try to integrate my Blink and Arlo Cameras with Hubitat. After all, I thought, $1.99 is not exactly going to break the bank. Wouldn't hurt to try it, right?
Today was my first day actually setting up the IFTTT applets. For some reason my applets were not executing. I went to the status page and found this:
It's right up there with the weekly Samsung outages emails. Shows that IFTTT doesn't have the best security management processes if they are letting SSL certs expire.
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