So a few weeks ago, after experiencing some issues with outages over YT, I decided to drop Wink in favor of smartthings. Beyond the sporadic outages, there were also rumblings that Wink had money issues as well. Today Wink announced that in a week from now, they are switching to a subsciption model - $5/month. If you don't sign up by 5/13 your account is dead, and won't be able to use the app to control any devices.
https://blog.wink.com/wink-blog/2020/5/6/introducing-wink-subscriptionI got the smartthing hub, only because it was cheap ($60 at amazon) and because it worked with all of my existing Z-Wave devices. I had a brief thought of switching to an amazon echo plus, but then I'd need to buy a crap ton of Zigbee switches instead.
