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Router Fallback For App When Cloud Not Found
LGNilsson:
Indeed, at first I thought this was an issue with the updates we've been working on, but it's not. Even so, it's bad news for us.
Automate:
--- Quote from: fillibar on August 20, 2014, 09:26:43 am ---Could we set the app to connect directly to the router for it's data? I know some people would probably love that as their primary method (rather than having the data in the cloud) but even just having it as a Fallback method would be nice. Yes, it would require people have a DDNS service set up if they want a hostname but that is all pretty easy. Yes, you could just go straight to the WUI in a browser but this method keeps the app useful as well especially since the app gets updates faster.
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I like the way the TCP Lighting app handles this. When you first start the app it tries to connected to the lighting gateway on the local LAN. If it can't quickly find it then it switches to using their cloud service. The app works the same way whether connect locally or through the cloud. Just a little bit of extra delay if working through the cloud.
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