Request: Add local API (ex. non-internet/cloud dependent) to Puck acting as gateway
That would massively improve reliability, especially for people with unstable internet.
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Official comment
Hi Nick,
We appreciate the feedback. This is a request we have received in the past. I have added your request to the engineering ticket where we track demand for this local API.
We can't guarantee if or when this may become available but if it does we will reach out and let you know.
Regards,
The Flair Team
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doubled_ca - we have added your request to our internal ticket.
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James C. there are a large number of people in this thread and others that have asked for this for years. I myself will never buy a Flair product until it is available, and will continue to buy used Keen vents, which work just fine on local Zigbee control, until then. The fact that I can do so kind of proves the point for why people want this.
Can we at least get any kind of information as to whether this is seriously being looked at besides 'we put this in an issue tracker which will never see the light of day'?
https://www.reddit.com/r/esp8266/comments/43prrx/we_flair_are_using_an_esp_in_our_product_and/
What happened to this Flair that was open from nearly a decade ago? This is the kind of attitude that would get you buy in from a large proportion of home assistant users, which is a very large market. Especially when you consider that the venn diagram of people running home assistant setups and people spending money on smart HVAC vents is likely pretty circular.
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Gotta reflect everyone here - I have some Flair in my house, and it works well, but I will not be purchasing more until a local API and some offline ability is added. Ideally the ability to hook up the hub at least to HA. Add that and I'll be buying another 5 vents and 3 pucks.
I buy things I expect to last me 5-10 years, what if Flair shuts down tomorrow? SOL that's what. Cloud-only services outside the megacorps are a crapshoot in quality and long-term reliability, not to mention security. -
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I have custom automation software that opens and closes all the vents in my house and switches dynamically between heat and cool mode on the central heat pump to let me set/maintain individual room-level setpoints for every room in my house (with room-level schedules).
All this runs locally on a pair of servers, with the exception of the Flair API which is the only WAN dependency.
I'd really like escape that dependency and communicate with my Flair Bridge directly over the LAN. Flair has become the weak link in my entire setup because of the lack of local API.
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