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Haier response to my feedback after Louis' YT video.
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Some are actually welcoming, and provide a local API. That way your air-conditioning control isn't web dependent.
Unfortunately, most are quite stupid about it, and insist on using their app. This voids any usefulness of having smart appliances. E.g. pulse a light in a room when the tumble dryer finishes or turn it on and off dependent on your rooftop solar's output.
I love stuff like this. Turn on the dryer and put the window shades up when the sun's out.
Not stupid, just greedy.
They're gonna make money from selling whatever data they can mine from your mobile device and likely selling you monthly subscriptions.
Lazy would be a better description. They want the tech cred of having it be an IoT device. They also hope to leverage it to get more money. Unfortunately, the budget, and coherent drive for this isn't there. The end result is a "designed by committee" app. It ticks all the boxes, but also misses all the things that would help actually get people using it.
If they were lazy they would have just not done anything and let the HA users carry on.
Just because 1 department is being lazy doesn't mean their legal aren't.