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
you may be interested in the open-source “Home Assistant”. it’s a free home automation hub thingy that supports practically every brand and protocol out there, including Shelly. if you’re technical enough to set it up, free yourself from proprietary apps!
A correct and helpful answer. HA is phenomenal, although some report the learning curve is steep - it’s totally worth it.
I use it with lots of different vendors and it consolidates and coordinates everything between everything else.
All for-profit companies eventually enshittify.
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
Prices in kapitalist society are not about the cost but about what people are willing to pay
This Shelly thing appears to be the typical cloud SaaS platform. What does exactly make it open?
I feel like I’m going to get a lot of use out of this.
