Hacker News Reader

I feel similarly, that's why I use a smart home hub with local control (Hubitat).

With Tidbyt our default pipeline uses our cloud, but the hardware is fully unlocked for you to flash your own firmware.

Is there a replacement firmware already available that allows local control?

I feel like for all these connected hardware products, they should ship with an open source server and the phone apps that control them should have an "Server IP address" field in their iOS settings. Your company goes under? I just run your software locally and point my app to my local IP.

We're working on an example open source firmware. In reality though, it's not something the majority of our customers are asking for so with a 3-person team it hasn't been at the top of the list.

Yeah, I know I'm not really in the target market. Like, I would absolutely spring for a locally controlled Vestaboard, but I know that most of these are probably sold to businesses.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com