So no one had the thought to update the auto response?
" Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us. This auto-reply is to let you know that we received your email.
For resources and information to assist you with your Hubitat Elevation, please visit us at support.hubitat.com.
Also, be sure to check out our community for fast and friendly guidance from our members at community.hubitat.com.
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I see I'm not the only one that encountered this issue. See ticket-
It's an easy fix, just update your auto responder for support@hubitat.com to advise your users to go the the forum for help, and that directly emailed tickets will no longer be answered.
Probably a mailer at the time you decided to do that would have helped, and maybe a reminder in your mailings on how to get support would help too.
I've been working in support desks since '94, and owned a company with 150,000 subscribers (strongvpn.com) so managing support issues is my background. I would like to see Hubitat gain all the success they want as I currently own and use more than 14 hubs.
I think the issue they were raising here was that they found the support auto response email to be confusing. Whatever triggered the issue should maybe be in a different thread if they still need help?
I totally disagree, and I think you're missing the obvious hole. This kind of response is standard, in all support@ emails. It indicates nothing to the fact that my email will be ignored unless I go to that location.
My guess is that the point of contention here is the second line in the first blurb of that screenshot...
If I got this email, I'd read that and assume my "received email" will be responded to eventually.
IMHO, what's missing is a clear statement that you won't get a response via email, and that you must use the support.hubitat or community options.
Without that clarifying transition, the second blurb instead just reads as boilerplate "visit us at..." kinda stuff that shows up at the bottom of typical auto-response emails .
Then why post anything here? If you have a problem with support, email them directly. If you have something you want the community to comment on/help with, post here - the community forum.
But what is the point of posting to the community, then saying you don't want the community involved?
Anyway, good luck. Not trying to be combative, rather I just see no point to the thread so I'll bail out now (muting thread).
Does it matter what the denominator is? In other words, in the last four months if two (or three) people found this confusing, but 150,000 understood it to mean the email was received but they should seek out support here in the discourse community or the support subdomain of the website, is that good enough?
Or is even one confused user too many?
Not trying to be contrarian. Iโm genuinely curious. I donโt work in tech support, or in IT at all actually.
My assumption for the entire point of this thread was that the way a member gets help i.e. emailing support no longer works. The auto-responders message is vague and possibly causing confusion so maybe should be worded differently. To me this seems like an appropriate thing to discuss irrespective of any hub/device issues.
So IF emailing customer support no longer works, then emailing them to bring up this issue probably wont work either?
I read this as the support team (people not email servers) are thanking the user for reaching out to them and letting them know that they received the email. I would naturally assume that my issue is now something the support people are looking into.
After reading this thread, this is obviously not the case. And the line should be changed to:
"Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us. This auto-reply is to let you know that we HAVE NOT received your email, and you need to reach out through support.hubitat.com"
I wonder if any personnel that actually make up hubitat's support team actually received the email in their inbox like the line implies. A generic auto response by an email server could hardly be construed as received by the support team.
I think that is equally confusing. Clearly they did receive the e-mail if they auto-responded. Perhaps it should say it was received but they no longer create support tickets from e-mails received and you should go to the portal at support.hubitat.com . . .