We Installed the World's SMARTEST Electrical Panel...Is it Worth the Risk?

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• TD

  @td19xyz · 2 years ago

  From thier FAQ: &quot;Today, SPAN does not have an open API for local control.&quot;<br>This needs to be added before I&apos;d consider installing a SPAN panel. It&apos;s a cool idea to monitor, and manage energy usage, but dependence on the cloud is too big of an issue, even if SPAN&apos;s current leadership is benevelant. And it would help deter issues like the one Chamberlain made for themselves with their garage door openers.

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• CL

  @clinta746 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Stud Pack needs to watch more Louis Rossman and see how often these companies will change the EULA on something you already bought &nbsp;and force you to agree to new terms you didn&apos;t want to keep using the hardware you already paid for. Call me a cowboy, but we need to stop allowing these cloud services into our homes. Smart home stuff is great, and the hardware for this panel looks really cool, but it should be local, talking to a home assistant server in your media closet where only you control it and your data stays private.

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• AP

  @AprilRaine60 · 2 years ago

  I just moved into my newly constructed house in Northern Idaho and I have to tell you, all I kept thinking about through this whole build is would this pass the &quot;STUD PACK&quot; inspection? I also binged watched all your videos BEFORE we went through the 1 yr building process and you taught me so many things that when it came to what we wanted in our build I had a list of 62 questions that I actually floored the builder because he&apos;s NEVER had a 63 yr old woman ask questions like that. I learned from watching every single video you put out. Now I wish I could have had you build my home to the detail you all put in the Dream Garage. You do fantastic work and you should be proud.

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• MR

  @MrZed411 · 2 years ago

  Rather than the panel becoming a &apos;dumb panel&apos; if SPAN goes out of business, SPAN should make the app/panel have local control by default. This would be a solution to the people that are concerned about others controlling their panel. This would also mean that once you have the panel you no longer need SPAN to be in business to see/control it with the app. And if you think they couldn&apos;t do it for some reason, local control is how a lot of devices in the smart home segment are controlled. Only the products that people should stay away from force cloud integration to control the product locally.

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• ST

  @steve_main · 2 years ago (edited)

  Hey StudPack I saw that you donated to Arlo&apos;s retirement on the Perkins Brothers Builders channel! Thanks for supporting him! I sent a few dollars his way also! Great community we have on YouTube of builders!!

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• GI

  @gi70st · 2 years ago

  real concerns -- number 1 -- have that panel on its own VLAN that does not talk to the rest of your network

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• JO

  @JoeTaber · 2 years ago

  Companies like SPAN can and often do pull a Darth Vader &quot;I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further&quot; rug pull by changing the ToS, forcing you to make a choice: Do you want to turn your smart panel into an exorbitantly expensive fancy looking dumb panel, or agree to the new ToS that violates your privacy and sells you out to the new energy tzar that fines you for running your AC too much.<br>It doesn&apos;t matter what the ToS says or what agreements they do or don&apos;t have with third parties <b>today</b> if all of these things can change in the future when the VCs get bored and want their 10x payout. YOU are the collateral for the big VC loans.<br>And don&apos;t think it will be this in your face, they&apos;ll boil you slowly.

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• LI

  @LikeAnOldFordTruck · 2 years ago

  Perfect timing! Wife is watching 90 day fiancé and I needed something better!!!

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• AL

  @allenmcgrath932 · 2 years ago

  I swear, I respond faster to notifications that a new Stud Pack vid is ready than I do for my own family!

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• U8

  @u8qu1tis · 2 years ago

  NEVER use an off-site server not directly under your control manage anything in your home if at all possible. The company could go out of business, change their product support, or anything you can think of.

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• CO

  @Colink02 · 2 years ago

  Before I commented I went ahead and watch the full video just to make sure I didn&apos;t miss something that addresses my concerns. My concern is that this panel is in fact attached to a cloud service on the internet where hacks happen very often. The fact thats this panel does not allow or restrict functions such as turning on and off power to local only is crazy to me. And so why is that you may ask? To put it simply I would never ever ever put trust into a company to manage a cloud service that allows access to control my power, sure power companies have this type of access (sorta) however I do believe them to be more secure as they do not talk over the internet but under their own frequency which makes them at least somewhat more resistant to say someone in another country sitting at their computer. Overall I think this is quite dangerous in general, its one thing if you decide to do that yourself its another when the company actively requires it. Play stupid games win stupid prizes... I&apos;d go deeper but I&apos;ve already rewrote this comment like 3 times to simplify a bit.

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• CL

  @cliffbarbier4918 · 2 years ago

  Paul got like 7 layers of &quot;before that&quot; before I lost count. 😂

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