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When Ikea came out with smart home stuff, I bet that they would get it right, or at least not as bad as the others (I previously suffered through the enshitification of Samsung's SmartThings). In my experience their stuff has been flimsy and not sure trustworthy. It at least works without an app, so far, but I've not been able to regain any enthusiasm for the promise of home automation

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When was SmartThings good? I missed that. The only thing I use it for is an oven that, even though it is connected to the internet, can't manage to update the time when daylight savings time changes. To get the oven to update the time, you have to open the app, find the oven, go to Settings, turn OFF the "automatic time sync" option and then turn it back on again. Every 6 months.

I performed this ritual last weekend, and followed up by filing a bug report about what a shitshow the whole thing was from the feedback option in the app. I got a very nice message back from Samsung telling me my message had come to the wrong place and that I should do something different if I wanted to give feedback about the app. FFS.

Unfortunately, this. I have expected more from Ikea, but I guess they have to keep the prices low. :/

i don't know why you'd expect Ikea to not be flimsy and cheap -- that's the point.

Well, my entire apartment is mostly IKEA stuff.

And, thinking about it now, sadly you're probably right! Especially their newer stuff.

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