Smart Nora will become a paid service.

[FireWizard]

Hi all,

It was already a part of the discussion at the time that Nora was phased out and that SmartNora took over that role.
As many would have noted, it works perfect, but now is the time coming that SmartNora will become a paid service.

After 1st December, users with no subscriptions will only get 5 devices, across all groups, synced with Google Home.

See: https://github.com/andrei-tatar/node-re ... ussions/63

So you have some time to move to another solution.

Regards

[mgugu]

Yes but for less than 2€/month.
I think it is worth paying for that since that elegant solution works really fine and can save a lot of programming time compared to other solutions (google actions/firebase native solution for example).

[Gravityz]

just found out the hard way that smartnora is going commercial.

since domoticz is my main platform and it integrates perfectly with siri (by using homebridge) i will stop using Nora.

google was just for playing around and since most of my stuff is apple based, siri is the better choice
also i have a vpn and appletv so i do not need google to operate my stuff remotely.

well it was a nice solution but to expensive for my needs

[FireWizard]

Hello #Gravityz

Indeed. It happened at November 30, 11 P.M.

I agree with you that it is too expensive.

20€/year does not look much, but it counts up every year.
It is not that it is not worth those 20€, but it is just a component inside Node-RED and also Node RED is a good product.

But Andrei Tatar has costs to run this service and it is not fair that he pays for our hobby.
But I try to keep the costs as low as possible and therefore I moved to https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red ... -smarthome

It is running fine, but SmartNora has some more functionality, which is nice if you need it.

Regards

[Gravityz]

thanks.

i will look at it.

For the moment i sold my Sonos one(google/amazon only)
I bought a brand new homepod mini which supports dutch siri as of today (timing is everything)

for now the Apple environment wins since i do not have any google devices anymore