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If you want people to use the official app (if there is/were one, I don't know), and use the app to upsell and market, or collect and sell additional user data, you're not interested in an open ecosystem.

Just remember: they don't just want money. They want all the money.

>>maweki+(OP)
More importantly, their employees want money and will use whatever means necessary to justify their paycheck.

A Home Assistant integration means people "engage" less with their app and thus whoever is working on it is at risk of irrelevance. Doesn't matter whether this actually translates to more business and money coming in at the top, PM wants their "engagement" and this is an easy way to trade long-term customer goodwill for it.

>>Nextgr+w5
On the other side of that coin though - Home Asssistant isn't exactly a mainstream app, it's almost exclusively run by tech geeks. The same type of people who are usually willing to mentally cross off brands when they make moves like this.

It's a wash.

>>somehn+eg
If you’re smart you make it so that the API needs a “key” from the app in some way, so that the API being used “registers” as an app usage.