I’d rather have much less cloud than anymore.
I want my new Ezlo hub to be fully local with a local simple one line http command Api for controlling devices on / off and running scenes etc. And the damn thing must keep the correct time somehow when the Internet is down in the house.
I dont need a cloud gateway for remote access necessary, I could always punch a port through my VPN tunnel and routers firewall to gain access as long as their is some password security to the Ezlo hub.
I think perhaps some Ezlo cloud services could be paid for, like the gateway and other cloud to cloud integrations with other services and platforms.
Personally I would be happy with a higher up front cost for the Ezlo hub hardware over a monthly subscription. £150 to £200 seems reasonable for the spec of the hardware and promised firmware.
However a $2 a month and a new hub every 4 years doesn’t sound bad at all.
I’d be also happy paying an upfront cost for the dashboard app and designer app.
Again if it works well and supports all the devices we have been asking for and there is a decent inbuilt drag and drop blocky logic engine and a very good dashboard app that can be fully customised it’s going to be a win.
I’d even pay a little extra for some Ezlo made plugins like a Harmony plugin as we have now.
I just don’t want to be ripped off and forced out due to pricing that I cannot afford.
I can’t afford Crestron or Control 4 or even Homeseer and its plugins for that matter.
I have the technical skills and knowledge to go open source if I really had the desire, I’d look at Home Assistant but would have to learn a new platform from scratch.
However before that happens I am going to stick around whilst the new Ezlo platform comes out of beta and hopefully I won’t need to fully jump ship. But still its gonna be learning a new system all over again.
Or if I was feeling flush, I could just drop £500 plus on the new Fibaro HC3 hub and go that route. But that would be a big investment upfront.