Lowe's is shutting down its Iris smart home platform at the end of March
In a move that may seem obvious in retrospect, Lowe's has decided that its Iris smart home platform is not in fact going to take off. Instead, the home improvement-focused retail chain is shutting the service down on March 31st, 2019 and advising all Iris users to kindly avoid taking their no-longer-functioning products back to a Lowe's store. The company says it will however give you some money back in the form of a prepaid Visa card that will help you "migrate to another smart home platform," reads the company's website.
[...] Alternatively, Lowe's says that a number of the products that are compatible with Iris are also compatible with Samsung's SmartThings platform, and SmartThings is apparently agreed to help with the transition process. Some other Iris products use standard protocols like Zigbee and Z-Wave, notes Android Police, meaning they should also work with other platforms beyond SmartThings if you don't feel like trying to get your money back.
Dumb as a bag of hammers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:30AM (2 children)
all it used to take was a barry white lp and some boxed wine.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:07AM (1 child)
That's right. But with Smart Home, they have the Server. And it knows. It's like everything is written down. Saturday night. Somebody comes to the door. The lights -- dim. The Barry White. Followed by the Ted Nugent. All written in my permanent record. So it's very easy to tell what happened. You think it's going to be private, a lot of times it's not. The Server goes to the E-Bay with that whole record on it. Who needs that? And by the way, the wine. They don't have the Smart Home Sommelier. So you have to have a guy anyway.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @10:56AM
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