Insteon Smart Home Hubs Start Coming Back Online
Anyone with an Insteon hub still hooked up may be surprised to find it started working again over the weekend.
Insteon quietly shut down without warning back in April. It was later revealed the home automation company had run out of money while it tried to find a buyer. Users were left with broken smart home setups and no way to get them working again, until now that is.
As Ars Technica reports(Opens in a new window), a message popped up on Insteon's website last week from new CEO Ken Fairbanks. It explained how a small group of Insteon users had banded together and managed to acquire the company(Opens in a new window). They turned the servers back on and hubs started to work again much to the surprise of Insteon customers.
Fairbanks goes on to explain that, "Our first priority was getting the hubs online immediately before we had access to this site, the email service provider, social accounts, etc. Every day more customers were giving up hope so it was critical to get that restored as soon as possible."
There are features that don't work yet, but the intention is to get all the smart and automation functionality back online in the near future. The new team is "committed to responsibly re-building the Insteon business," but asks for patience while they work out the scale of the task ahead and plan the best way to go about tackling it.
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