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1 year ago

Dear Simplisafe Management and Development, It is a market differentiator for products such as a home alarm system to integrate with the market's most popular consumer home automation platforms (Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home). I see this subject was discussed in a different thread, but

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1 year ago

Dear Simplisafe Management and Development, It is a market differentiator for products such as a home alarm system to integrate with the market's most popular consumer home automation platforms (Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home). I see this subject was discussed in a different thread, but

I too invested $1500 in the Simplisafe system assuming it wasn’t an entirely closed ecosystem, thank goodness I’m still within the return window. Bummer though because I was excited about the SimpliSafe security equipment.

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1 year ago

I agree with most of what is stated here. I understand security with a security system needs to remain an utmost priority, however it is also true that integration is essential. By SimpliSafe abstaining from these evolving standards they actually are

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1 year ago

I can sympathize. I am also ~ $1,500 invested into the proprietary ecosystem, but unfortunately I am well past the return window. I also believed Simpliesafe Sales when they told me Apple Homekit support was coming soon. That was over a year ago. As

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1 year ago

I pulled the plug on SimpliSafe. It was a net loss of time and money but made zero sense not having it hooked up to my home automation. I believed it when they said it was coming. Shame on me for that one. Switched to Abode and running everything thr

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1 year ago

This is very unfortunate. I just purchased and setup about $1500 worth of SimpliSafe equipment. I really love it, but it was an oversight on my part to not check whether a modern company was utilizing common standards. Fortunately I'm still within my

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1 year ago

⚠ ATTENTION SIMPLISAFE TEAM!! ⚠ Please take notice that you have unhappy customers with profound dissatisfaction and deep concern regarding your upper management not putting cross-platform integration in your scope. Their frustrations stemmed from Si

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1 year ago

I've been a paying SimpliSafe customer for 5 years now. I've been pretty happy with the system overall, but recently I've started replacing a lot of my older home automation equipment with devices that offer local control (for privacy reasons). Loca

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1 year ago

I am heavily invested in the Homekit ecosystem and purchase the best kit I can for each category, such as lights, plugs, etc. SimpliSafe is now an outlier and suffers from a self-imposed handicap as it does not work with HomeKIt. Your average consume

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1 year ago

Couldn’t agree more with this post. I understand implementation takes time and research, along with much consideration; that being said, for over a year I have been googling this exact topic, and I’m very grateful that someone started this thread and