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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Dehydrated@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Hey! We were gonna charge a subscription for that! Fuck you for doing it first, competition is not allowed."

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Does homeassistant even charge a subscription?

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 45 points 10 months ago

No, its free an open source, but it out competes their spyware

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Home assistant does not, but Haier would rather you use their proprietary SmartAir2 app that vacuums up every tiny bit of personal data for resale, and could potentially turn into a subscription service later.

Mind you smartair2 has a 1.4 star rating on the play store if that tells you how well any of their software and devices work lol

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Frigidaire’s is just as bad

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

I guess literally every modern appliance company is just garbage...

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The software is free, and you would never need to pay anything to get set up great system for yourself. In addition to that, they also offer a service that you can subscribe to that gives you some benefits. You can replicate all the functions on your own, I believe, but the service makes it extremely simple.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They do, but only if you want to go through their servers for access outside of your network.

I do it mostly to support the project.

[–] QHC@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

IMO, it's also worth the yearly cost for voice integration with Google Nest/Home or similar devices. Both can be done without paying but it's so much easier and I know it'll be supported over time.