I noticed the back has been refunded. It's a shame.

Any hope we will get the integration? Any other way we can succeed?

GLOP

GLOP wrote:

I noticed the back has been refunded. It's a shame.

Any hope we will get the integration? Any other way we can succeed?

Hi GLOP,

Yes, sadly we didn't achieve the campaign's goal. We would love it if the community has any feedback on what could be done differently, why the campaign wasn't attractive for you guys, etc.

Regarding the Nuki system, it will go on our list of requested drivers from which development depends on the availability and the number of requests for each system. Or if many more people are interested, in the future we can have another go at crowdfunding it.

thanks for this message, but as much as I appeciate it I fail to understand the decision. I work in tech and I understand you need a budget supporting any further development, bup please accept my criticism as constructive: the home automation industry is based on features supported, and I don't think you can go any further without expanding the list of functionalities and devices supported on a regular basis. All your "competitors" are working hard to integrate seamessly 3rd parties devices and make their ecosystem more appealing.

As much as I love the BLI app and interface it's meaningless for me (as for anybody else likes simplicity and effectivness) to use an app to control B&O devices (and most likely HUE) and a dozen more apps to control perfectly integrable systems... So you force people to move back to their Homekit or Homeassistant or whatever and just use B&O app to control music...

I have been more than happy to bake the campain, as I was to subscibe to the PRO functionalities for my BLI, but I, as a user more than a customer, I would expect you not to give up once a roadmap was decided.

One more time, please take this as an improvement point, since this "requirement" aims more to build and streinght the community and the product up than to complain.

my 2 cents

GLOP

GLOP wrote:

thanks for this message, but as much as I appeciate it I fail to understand the decision. I work in tech and I understand you need a budget supporting any further development, bup please accept my criticism as constructive: the home automation industry is based on features supported, and I don't think you can go any further without expanding the list of functionalities and devices supported on a regular basis. All your "competitors" are working hard to integrate seamessly 3rd parties devices and make their ecosystem more appealing.

As much as I love the BLI app and interface it's meaningless for me (as for anybody else likes simplicity and effectivness) to use an app to control B&O devices (and most likely HUE) and a dozen more apps to control perfectly integrable systems... So you force people to move back to their Homekit or Homeassistant or whatever and just use B&O app to control music...

I have been more than happy to bake the campain, as I was to subscibe to the PRO functionalities for my BLI, but I, as a user more than a customer, I would expect you not to give up once a roadmap was decided.

One more time, please take this as an improvement point, since this "requirement" aims more to build and streinght the community and the product up than to complain.

my 2 cents

GLOP

Hi again GLOP,

Thanks for your feedback, it is very much appreciated 🙂

We are constantly working on adding new systems and functionalities. There are a great number of systems out there and we try to find a coherent way of prioritizing, to implement robust integrations with the systems that will have a greater impact on the people who use the BeoLiving Intelligence to simplify their lives.

We will get in contact with the Nuki driver backers to see if we can find a solution together.

Hello there @khimo team

Did you ever get any feedback from the Tado guys for a driver?

Hi Seanie,

No, sadly we did not. We are trying to contact them in other ways and are keeping our eyes open for any news on that front. We will keep you guys informed!

Best,

Ivan

DocLeisure wrote:

Hi Khimo Team (and of course Ivan ;-),

could "basic integration with the newest generation of B&O equipment:" also indicate any progress in regards of the integration of the BeoRemote Halo (as the BeoRemote Halo is the newest generation of B&O Remote equipment)?

Looking forward to great news or a comment!

Best regards

Doc Leisure

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DocLeisure wrote:

Khimo Support wrote:

Seanie_230 wrote:

Will the BLI work with the new Beoremote-Halo in some way?

We can not comment! But...

DocLeisure wrote:

There was just a new firmware released for the BeoRemote Halo - unfortunately without BLI support.

We can still not comment, sorry (:

 

Sorry for what is probably a dumb question……. I have a Halo.  If I add a BLI to my system, will the Halo still function as it does? Or put another way, adding a BLI would not cause me to lose any of my current Halo functionality, would it?

 

Perhaps this was not a good start with Nuki.

On the crowdfundingspage it says it is only for BLI. Most users here still have the MLGW and/or a BLGW. That's may be why the goal was not getten.

Perhaps another crowdfundingaction will start better for more people with BLGW AND BLI in their home.

Just my opinion.

Razlaw wrote:

Sorry for what is probably a dumb question……. I have a Halo.  If I add a BLI to my system, will the Halo still function as it does? Or put another way, adding a BLI would not cause me to lose any of my current Halo functionality, would it?

Hi Razlaw! As you know we are continually developing new integrations and expanding the BLI's capabilities, in the case of integration with Halo we still can't comment...

BeoHut wrote:

Perhaps this was not a good start with Nuki.

On the crowdfundingspage it says it is only for BLI. Most users here still have the MLGW and/or a BLGW. That's may be why the goal was not getten.

Perhaps another crowdfundingaction will start better for more people with BLGW AND BLI in their home.

That's really good feedback, thanks BeoHut! We will specify this in any future crowdfunding campaign.

We want to be clear about the fact that when possible we aim to make drivers that are compatible with both BLGW and BLI. The thing is, technologies in this sector advance quickly and there are already many systems that use methods that aren't available on the BLGW (eg. websockets).

P.S. there might be news on the Nuki front soon! 👍

Seanie_230 wrote:

Hello there @khimo team

 

 

Did you ever get any feedback from the Tado guys for a driver?

As a work around for now, I have Home Assistant running in a terminal screen on a mac laptop. This has TADO thermostats and wall controllers in it. It is then linked to BLI so I can have them that way. Not ideal but I'll eventually upgrade my Synology NAS so it'll run a VM and have HASS running on that instead of the laptop.