wink hub 2?

[James Sentman]

I’ve read the threads on their new local support and I’m not sure it’s “soup” yet, there seem to be problems with the authentication and they are making regular changes to it that are breaking peoples implementations of it. And it’s going to limited to just lights and door locks. That does make it more palatable to me so I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this. 

Generally if there are good python libraries for connecting to something I will be able to wrap them into a plugin without too much hacking around at the low level of the protocol. But that does mean that we’re reliant on what they support and since I didn’t write the low level stuff I can’t fix it as easily because I’m not as familiar with it. So it’s good but there are tradeoffs ;) 

This is definitely the right way to go for their product if they want to reduce latency and increase customer satisfaction. Though I think it will ultimately be even more confusing for people if a subset of their stuff stops working or is working poorly but other parts of the system work just fine. They might have to extend that to cover everything. But then you’d need all the plugin logic in the hub and I’ll bet they don’t have enough resources in there to do that. It will be interesting to watch and I will keep an eye out. I’m going to ultimately break down soon and support some other cloud only devices like the Nest thermostat and such. Not today though, too many other things to hammer out to get ready for it.

-James


> On Jul 22, 2018, at 11:55 PM, John Guineau <wjg321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> Well as soon as you said “cloud” I gave wink the wink good-bye. I totally agree with you. If it requires cloud access, I’m not interested. 
> 
> However, I poked around their FAQ and came across this. Might be worth preparing for supporting it. It seems to be more well received than Vera even with the current cloud nonsense. 
> 
> John 
> 
> What is local control?
> 
> Typically, when you control a product through the Wink app, your phone sends a signal to your Internet router, which then communicates with our server in the cloud, which then comes back through your router to the Wink Hub / Wink Hub 2, and then finally to that product.
> 
> Local control removes the cloud layer from the equation, so that your phone can talk directly to the Hub on your home network.
> 
> Local control currently works with Wink-compatible, Hub-required lighting products and door locks.
> 
> Wink Hub 2 will introduce the ability to control advanced home automations, like Robots and Schedules, locally for increased reliability and speed.
> 
> 

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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