If anyone has a device they’d like to sell, please contact me (in bio).
[EDIT] Thank you to the wonderful hackers who reached out to me. I think that I am all set now.
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#14They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
And that’s why the only IoT devices I’ll buy use Zigbee (ZWave works too). You can’t shut down a device that I control internet access to. Sadly this doesn’t scale, it takes specialized skills and time to build out home automation using these technologies.
It’s gotten easier with Home Assistant but still, even as an engineer I prefer to use the easy APIs for these things sometimes than run my own support system for the Z-stuff
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#15They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
What did they make? Their site doesn't have any info on their products.
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#16I always really liked this approach: Instead of every car smart by replacing them, make dumb cars (a bit) smarter with a connected device. Even once pitched a competitor to this service.
That said, I'm wondering what the impact of Covid was on this: A regular SAAS service shouldn't see a huge impact, or would all customers cancel when not using their car for a month?
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#17They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
I just bought one of these about a month ago,
I read about how the company had just discontinued the old version of the product in the reviews on Google play of their app figured I'd have some decent time with it since they just rolled out the version I bought...
Jokes on me!
Any chance there's some way we could get the data out of them with something open source?
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SiriusXM not shutting down yet?
Highly unlikely. The big money sink is already spent (launching the satelites).
The satellites are likely much cheaper than the ongoing costs for content.
It looks like they are spending over $2B annually on content fees. They could launch a lot of satellites with $2B per year.
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#19They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
I just bought one of these about a month ago, I read about how the company had just discontinued the old version of the product in the reviews on Google play of their app figured I'd have some decent time with it since they just rolled out the version I bought... Jokes on me! Any chance there's some way we could get the data out of them with something open source?
They do seem to have an export feature[1]. The dashboard has been "Loading trips..." for minutes to download into a CSV a measly number 2K trips I had.
I'm sorry that people are losing jobs over such closure, but usually the writing is on the wall.
[1]: https://help.automatic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000599847-Ho...
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#20They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
What did they make? Their site doesn't have any info on their products.
an ODB port device, which connects with bluetooth to your phone.
It records how gas-efficient your driving is, as well as beeping when you go over 80 mph or have a hard break.
It tried to gamify your driving behavior to be more efficient and safe. And I think it was effective but from the start it's been tied to the cloud.
At the start they'd send weekly reports of driving behavior, congratulating or saying what could be done better. As well as tracking (with location data on the phone) where you drove. I once used it to expense milage for a conference.
However the emails soon stopped coming as frequently or reliably, then a year later when the emails stopped they said they were discontinuing my unit, encouraging me to buy the new one. I did not, as they failed to provide me with the service they promised.
EDIT: to clarify, the phone app would start upon bluetooth connection, and send the data to Automatic. I'm not sure if it was realtime or not.