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I would definitely want to see one in action before plunking down that much money for a cooktop. Their website is big on hype and short on details of operation. And if they fail, are you SOL on service?

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Yeah 0 chance I would drop that much cash on this from an unknown brand. Even from a reputable brand I would be wary. I still feel burned from buying a few hundred dollars of “smart” smoke detectors from firstalert, a smoke detector company that has been around for ages and is still around. They were a terrible product with terrible support and instead of just hiring better people to rewrite a decent firmware they abandoned the whole product line after a year or two offering a $40 smoke detector as a replacement for the $129 unit that was a buggy piece of shit.

lol regarding smart smoke detectors

firstalert acquired luma, which had acquired birdi, which was kickstarter campaign smart smoke thing, which shipped nothing to most of kickstarter backers

some m&a execs clearly did not have good vaporware detector there!!

I’d imagine it has to be a regulatory nightmare. There’s really no options on the market. First alert at this point just has the zwave one that can’t be hardwired or interconnected so it’s not to code in many locales. Nest is pretty good but it won’t work intranet only and that’s a dealbreaker for me; I do iot but it has to be gear that can cope with being on a vlan with no internet access. The only other options are sketchy brands that don’t give a fuck about us regulations. Sometimes it’s a chinese company that has some staying power like xiaomi but sometimes it’s one of those random ones that likely won’t exist in 2 years

A shame because I would really like to be notified if my house is burning down while I’m away from it. Would be pretty handy.

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