dantheclammanSamsung wants SmartThings API users to pay, and Home Assistant could suffer
EarMasterThe headline is clickbait. If anything HA can show its strength as it provides plenty of alternatives.
How is it clickbait? This will cause problems for people. I’m going to have to reset all my gear to connect to HA directly, which is a solution and alternative I’m glad is available (and I’ve been procrastinating on doing) but is going to take me at least a couple hours to set up. So it is annoying that Samsung is doing this
James Derrick@EarMaster @dantheclamman How?
My Samsung washing machine ONLY supports SmartThings.
Not Z-Wave, not Zigbee, not Thread, not Matter ( all of which I use with #HomeAssistant ).
There were no Matter machines on sale then, so ST into HA worked for notifications and energy.
When #Samsung locks-out #HomeAssistant , all of my #Samsung devices will be reset.
If #Samsung chooses to lock me out, I choose to lock #Samsung out.
Closed APIs really suck for consumers. It’s the leverage these companies try to hold over our heads. Sooner or later, shareholders’ demand for forever growth inevitably causes corporate executives to notice the attractive lever of profit that comes from a closed ecosystem. Every for-profit company will inevitably close every API that they can (while still maintaining a functioning product). Sometimes they don’t even let the function part stop them!