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Point – A smart house sitter

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Re: Point – A smart house sitter

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Post by rdl »

Siliticxx wrote: post #72
rdl wrote: post #70

Huge points for doing this onsite vs. in the cloud. I'd want to audit the firmware, and would put it behind a firewall blocking outbound connections. I'd like the ability to monitor a few sites, though -- not just my home, but also a storage/warehouse space, potentially an office, vacation home, parking spot, etc. Being able to monitor all of those in a single app would be awesome. I'm willing to trust you with proce…

I dont understand what you're saying. You don't want to have cloud integration yet you want to have monitor remotely? How would that work without server software?

I don't mind aggregated/processed/sanitized data going to the cloud. I don't want a raw audio feed going to the cloud.

If my local processing appliance tries to upload anything beyond a well-defined set of messages and bitrates, I'll get suspicious.

Re: Point – A smart house sitter

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Post by k0ngo »

rdl wrote: post #70

Huge points for doing this onsite vs. in the cloud. I'd want to audit the firmware, and would put it behind a firewall blocking outbound connections. I'd like the ability to monitor a few sites, though -- not just my home, but also a storage/warehouse space, potentially an office, vacation home, parking spot, etc. Being able to monitor all of those in a single app would be awesome. I'm willing to trust you with proce…

Yes, Point will perform all processing in the device and only send events with time stamps, as well as plain sensor readings for temperature/humidity/etc. It should be easy to verify by looking at the outbound bandwidth. Limiting outbound connections w.r.t hosts, ports and bandwidth (even filtering out OTA firmware updates) should be possible (as we're not trying to hide what we do, only protect your data), but it might affect the performance and battery life of the device, and is not something we can endorse.

Re: Point – A smart house sitter

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Post by mljungblad »

martior wrote: post #93

Will it work as a smoke alarm?

It can detect smoke and different varieties of it. To be classified as a smoke alarm, however, requires a costly certification which isn't feasible right now. It is able to detect when your regular smoke/fire alarm goes off though and pass the notification to your phone when you're away.

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Post by Agustus »

nmattisson wrote: post #86
Agustus wrote: post #56

Hi Form engineers and Form finance department, you have my attention and desire to purchase this. Can you provide answers to the following questions: 1. How much will this cost to purchase? 2. Will their be a subscription fee? 3. How is the Point system installed, from the video it appeared to be a magnet? 4. When is the actual release timeline, so I can start figuring out where I can put this in my house or if I sho…

Hi Agustus! Form finance and 1/5 of the engineering department here. :) 1. The Kickstarter price will be $79, with early-bird options for less. Retail will be more expensive. 2. No. 3. There is a small metal plate with double-sided tape that you attach to your wall or ceiling. Point then attached with magnets. 4. This summer! Beta units earlier if you are OK with a rough experience. 5. We might look larger than we ar…

Thank you Nils! How can I e-mail you to have one as soon as possible at $99?

Re: Point – A smart house sitter

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Post by martior »

mljungblad wrote: post #94
martior wrote: post #93

Will it work as a smoke alarm?

It can detect smoke and different varieties of it. To be classified as a smoke alarm, however, requires a costly certification which isn't feasible right now. It is able to detect when your regular smoke/fire alarm goes off though and pass the notification to your phone when you're away.

right. Possibly high returns if you get it though. Possibly more units per customers and more potential customers. Also within a magnitude of the price of normal smoke alarms.
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