> They have apparently phased out the monitor we bought and I worry it won't be supported long (thankfully not my responsibility any more).
I got burned by the "Apiaria" WiFi hive scale, which I bought on a lark, used for a spring, and then found it turned into a doorstop when the developer pulled the plug on the company, and also the servers to which the scale sent data.
As this was part of a doomed-from-the-start attempt to put beehives on the roof of the Javits Convention Center, a far too windy place for bees, being right on the Hudson, and 5 stories up, I had purchased it to allow the executive director to see in real time on a web browser what I could see at a glance - that no hive was going to make much of a living, certainly not a decent crop, given the persistent gusty winds.
After showing that the hives would have to be fed year round to survive, I left, only to later hear that two successive groups of far less-sophisticated beekeepers had been unwittingly lured into repeating the same experience by this same person, who apparently persisted in thinking that the wind was not the factor I said it was. Each group impaled themselves on the attempt.
So, "For Sale - Apiaria Hive Scale - Museum-Quality Item for A Collection of Historical Beekeeping Equipment - Price Very Affordable"
The lesson here is that if the data goes to someone else's server, you don’t really own anything at all. So, I use Hubitat rather than "Google Nest" products, as Hubitat runs stand-alone, and needs no connection to the outside world to run security and manage a "smart home".
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