Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription - eviltoast

If you don’t pay a subscription you can’t see the history of use, it’s limited to the latest 5 events. When I bought the ten devices (=I paid 150 euro for the hardware), it was 100 events

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOP
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    1 year ago

    Like if storing 100 timestamps in their servers actually costs them like that…

    100 timestamps in Unix epoch is something like 400 bytes and can be stored locally on the microcontroller without needing for the cloud

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      1 year ago

      Might want to double that to a whopping 800 bytes if you don’t want issues starting from the year 2038.