Naiyas

Looks nice and close to what I would be looking for from a wireless travel charge product. May consider it in the future, but travel at the moment is a little limited right now…

gavinthain said:

Total Fail. Need a battery version. 

Sorry, but so many people these days do not have wires for their doorbells. No new houses in the UK have wires installed. 

I just don’t get the craziness of the UK when it comes to electrical stuff. They don’t have to provide doorbell wiring - relying on the installation of battery operated stuff - but when it comes to smoke alarms they have to be mains wired rather than allowing fully battery operated installations - resulting in millions now being unsafe because they’re over 10 years old and have never been replaced.

And that’s before I get into the lack of outlets installed that are completely insufficient in number for modern needs! The regulations are so prescriptive but based on the position some 20 years ago. But as always, if you define minimum regulations, builders will race to produce the minimum requirements at the cheapest possible cost.

rotateleftbyte said:

I see this as the carriers snooping on your internet activity is threatened by this. As they sell that data, they see a loss of revenue and want it banned. If that fails, they'll try increasing prices or throttling or something else.

I would tend to agree with this comment. I am based in the UK currently and my ISP is currently Vodafone. They require a user identifiable log in to access their broadband and it’s become abundantly clear over the last 6 months that they really do not like me running VPNs at all.

My employers laptop VPNs to the office - speed of the connection is capped (but not by my office or my router; I run a VPN network and I also have a few devices that will “relay” too, and I also select my own DNS servers at the connection level. All of these so called “enterprise level features” (as Vodafone support call them) result in speed / connectivity issues even on a “business line”. But use a device without any VPN / relay and the full bandwidth is available. So I’m 100% sure it’s Vodafone’s network and they will throttle any traffic that they cannot analyse and then sell the profile of to a third party.

Once my contract is up I’m moving to an ISP that doesn’t associate my connection with a username and password for access.

I like all of my Eve devices. I also really like the specs of their smoke alarm (though it is hardly ever in stock - when it is, it sells out immediately). The smoke and heat sensor mix is an excellent feature for complete coverage, however I just wish they had a mains powered version as well as it’s a legal requirement to have at least one mains powered smoke alarm in a property here in the UK.

Will definitely be looking into the MotionBlinds and the outside camera is definitely on the list of options now, though I do think the 1080p limitation in HomeKit will eventually be raised in the next couple of years so there is a longevity angle to consider. I’m fortunate in that I can get POE cables to any of the camera points so my preference would be for POE based HomeKit cameras personally, but I realise I’m probably a bit niché.

@OutdoorAppDeveloper ;
I recall reading that there was a drop in orders with suppliers for every iPhone in history around 3 months after initial release… it’s called the sales cycle and it happens every year.

I actually suspect, and am partially concerned, that certain APIs could become subject to usage commissions in future. There is already plenty of telemetry data that is sent to Apple from our devices and some of it is clearly around what APIs are used and how often so they know which ones to drop over time. It wouldn’t take much to modify this telemetry and add app ID information with it and merge this data into a billing system.

This would be largely transparent to the end user, just as the telemetry data is already today.