All you’re gonna find here is blind defence of Sync. I used it for Reddit and it was amazing, but honestly, the Lemmy app isn’t worth it. Voyager is great if you’re looking for an alternative. It’s free and it’s maintained with updates almost every week.
The point is that method doesn’t work for the feediverse where things are constantly updating. It’s ok to expect that an app is maintained, especially when asking that high a price. I don’t get all the blind defence people have for Sync. It’s a highly priced app for a platform that’s entirely free and there hasn’t been an update or peep for months. It’s ok to question it. People would be for any other app.
Honestly, you should cut your losses and just move onto another app. You can always see if an update comes in the future, but for now there are plenty of good free options that are being maintained.
Yeah I still use their temp sensors and they seem to work fine. The door/window sensors seem to work ok too, but for the most part I’ve just swapped over to Aqara for anything new I’ve bought.
Yeah I gave up with them and went with Aqara ones. I just gradually replaced all the Sonoff motion sensors.
The Hue motion sensors are great, but quite expensive. I’ve found the Aqara ones to be best value for money. Haven’t had many issues with them.
After watching the movie twice, then reading the book and watching the movie a third time. I now know what’s going on.
Me too. But I still really enjoyed the weirdness of it.
Yeah I have been. But have a mix of apex and mini graph. Was going to migrate them all to apex and noticed it hasn’t been updated in years. Didn’t want to migrate everything and then have it stop working in a future home assistant update. Could be worrying about nothing though.
The only other thing I’ve noticed is that it’s quite power hungry compared to mini graph, albeit it having more functionality.
I don’t know, I haven’t used Grafana.
It’s not a walled garden, it’s kind of the opposite. You can connect devices regardless of brand and it’s a server you can run locally. In theory you wouldn’t need to update it or ever connect it to the internet again, as long as your devices can run locally.
If you have an old laptop or a raspberry pi 4, you can always give it a try before scrapping what you’re currently using.
My comments are actually after seeing the local pricing. I still think it’s too expensive. Perhaps other locations are more affordable.
This post is asking what apps are worth paying for. Someone suggested Sync is worth paying for. I disagree and offered a different opinion. No one said you had to pay for it, just whether it was worth paying for or not.
I’m sticking with Voyager for now. Sync is too expensive for a beta app. There’s no post functionality in it yet. I’m also not sure how I feel about paying so much for an app to access Lemmy. I’d rather put some of that money into the instances themselves.
Edit: I should say it’s totally up to you if you think it’s worth it. I’m all for supporting developers for their work. But in my opinion Sync isn’t worth the asking price in its current state, especially compared to the other apps available.
Honestly, there are actually some great apps on Android that are feature rich and I think all the others I know about are free too. I’m using Voyager and really liking it. Which is why I can’t spend $25 on Sync. It’s just way too much and despite having a great UI, is missing features like being able to submit a post.
Edit: To be clear, Sync is free with ads. Other apps I’ve tried are free and ad free.
The developer posted this and asked to let him know how it looked. Hence, I provided some feedback.
Yeah I noticed it had been changed. My feedback is that it’s still too high. Sorry. The app is still in beta and missing major functionality. I think you may also need to look at some competitors as I haven’t seen any priced like Sync and some are actually pretty damn good. I’m really enjoying Voyager for example.
I totally understand you need to make a living, but this isn’t Reddit. And I’d rather put some of my money towards supporting the instances I use, rather than just in the app I use to access them.
I’m sure you’re gonna do fine. You’ve got a great app and plenty of support. Just wanted to provide some honest feedback.
Still too much in Australia. Sorry, want to support the work like on Sync for Reddit. But this app doesn’t even have functionality to post yet and is $25 to remove ads. It just doesn’t feel right considering it’s the fediverse and there are no ads at the source.
I know you need to make a living. So you do what you need to.
What does “full time” mean? I’ve tried several and they’re all still receiving updates. Jerboa, Voyager, Thunder.
That’s the perfect example of why it’s better to compare Sync to other Lemmy apps. If Sync is being developed “full time” then it might be a positive in comparison to an app that isn’t. Hence, it potentially being worth the money compared to a cheaper or free app.
No. Different service because they’re a completely different offering.
A fairer comparison would be the cost of Sync to other Lemmy apps.
Recently did this and yes it’s a pain. I don’t know if it’s going to help until next time we change phones, but what I did this time was name the device after the person, rather than the phone model.
The idea being that I can delete the old device in the future and replace it with the new device, named the same. That way I don’t have to change the device name in each automation every time. Hopefully that made sense. But I still haven’t tested it in reality.