vegetaSmart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
Translation:
“Fuck you for not replacing your perfectly fine and still working 10 year old machine and making our line go up more. We’re gonna do our best to brick it because we want all of your money.”
Fuck capitalism. I will (and have been) doing my absolute to avoid buying any kind of physical device that requires an app to function
if I see something requires an app, no matter how good it is otherwise. the product is dead to me. I know it is, effectively, going to break within a year or two.
I’m getting that same way.
Currently trying to chase down some automatic sun shades that don’t need an app to do time-based cycles. Shouldn’t be this hard, but every band wants you to use absolute garbage apps.
if its not open source; it doesn’t exist.
Switchbot and home assistant might fit your needs. It still would require an app, but home assistant is self hosted and is a fantastic automation platform. I’ve installed so many hardware items that are either “appless” and are controlled by home assistant or home assistant is compatible and replaced the app.
Absolutely worth it IMO. I have been able to make a full self hosted/controlled and offline functional smart house.