Years after people bought it, smart home platform Wink is demanding $4.99 a month from users or it'll stop working theverge.com/2020/5/6/212499…

Smart home platform Wink will require a monthly subscription starting next week

“This fee is designed to be as modest as possible.”

theverge.com

May 7, 2020 · 2:43 AM UTC

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Covid-19 is awful, but this is the second smart device company that's shown its hand: the internet of things isn't free to run, and now that the VC money has vanished, we're finally seeing that
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It might just be me, but most of these "smart home" products just look like "dumb ideas".
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Ransom - 1 week notice
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Glad to see so much anger on Wink. I see I’m not the only one #screwWink
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Remember how in the '90s we thought that a "smart home" would have a server in the basement that ran the whole house? Then in the 2000s and 2010s we laughed at how naive that vision was? It sure would have been nice if 90s us had been right.
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I love my wink pivot strips, but after the first one lost connection to the wink servers, I replaced the bad Brain with a D1 mini and Esphome.
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Apparently my dad got a new alexa version that allowed him to transfer the winks to alexa
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Raspberry & domoticz 👈
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Time for people to make the switch and use Apple Home and Homebridge I guess.
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GOOD BYE! I am not paying $4.99 a month, what a joke. Went and bought a Samsung smart things router last night! Hope they don't charge anything.
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Eh, dats a nice smart home ya got there...it would be a shaaame if something were to happen to it.
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