{"id":58478,"date":"2022-04-18T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5e611a52ea7f27c29fff0b829d279aeb"},"modified":"2022-04-18T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:00:46","slug":"shameful-insteon-looks-dead-just-like-its-users-smart-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58478","title":{"rendered":"Shameful: Insteon looks dead\u2014just like its users\u2019 smart homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1848769\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh Internet of Shit.  A major vendor shuts down and their cloud back-end and renders all their gadgets inert.  \n\nThis shit is all irrelevant until there are reasonable interop standards and local hubs.<\/div><div>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/insta2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The lighting puns write themselves. \" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/insta2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> <span>\/<\/span> The lighting puns write themselves.  (credit: Insteon)<\/p>  <\/figure><div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The smart home company Insteon has vanished.<\/p>\n<p>The entire company seems to have&nbsp;abruptly shut down just before the weekend, breaking users' cloud-dependent smart-home setups without warning. Users say the service has been down for three days now despite the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insteon.com\/systemstatus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">status<\/a> page saying, \"All Services Online.\" The <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.insteon.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">company forums<\/a> are down, and no one is replying to users on social media.<\/p>\n<p>As Internet of Things reporter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staceyoniot.com\/insteon-is-down-and-may-not-be-coming-back\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stacey Higginbotham<\/a>&nbsp;points out, high-ranking Insteon executives, including CEO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/roblilleness\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rob Lilleness<\/a>, have scrubbed the company from their LinkedIn accounts.&nbsp;In the time it took to write this article, Lilleness also removed his name and picture from his LinkedIn profile.&nbsp;It seems like that is the most communication longtime Insteon customers are going to get.<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1848769#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1848769&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-v9Y8qWzrBA:hiDcVKNC1wQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The lighting puns write themselves.  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