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Lowe's to Shut Down its Iris "Smart Home" Platform

posted by martyb on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the Smart? dept.

takyon writes:

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: 1) by anubi on Monday February 04 2019, @04:10AM (1 child)

    by anubi (2828) on Monday February 04 2019, @04:10AM (#795979) Journal

    Here's hoping that once enough people get burned, they will catch onto the meme that if they want the job done right, do it yourself.

    I remember well what gramps taught me about snake oil salesmen. Once one visits a town and violated the trust of the townspeople, any subsequent salesmen had a really tough row to hoe.

    It surprises me how much crap we have already tolerated in the name of DRM, without resorting to mass workarounds.

    One thing in particular I would love to have is a HDMI DVR that has the same usability as my old VCR. Including .MP4 encoding, FTP file access in lieu of the standard tape cartridge.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]

  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday February 04 2019, @02:50PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Monday February 04 2019, @02:50PM (#796135) Journal
    I think someone built a HDMI tap with a FPGA. Something I might have seen on Hackaday years ago. Would be totally awesome if you could roll it into a PCI or USB peripheral as a video input device. of course you could never sell it or the DRM maggots would hit you so hard.