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Get Meter Data into Home Automation systems
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Please add captchaai.com #8

Closed sxdfgnb closed 1 year ago

sxdfgnb commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Can you please add support for Captchaai? Docs can be found here https://captchaai.com/api-docs.php

Thanks

mdeweerd commented 1 year ago

The method seems quite similar to the methods already implemented.

However, is it worthwhile to spend time on this. The minimum plan is $15/month.

sxdfgnb commented 1 year ago

I think It is worth it and you can ask them for a free trial for 7 days as I do that via BHW or via Ticket

mdeweerd commented 1 year ago

Where can I see the offers <<$15/month ?

sxdfgnb commented 1 year ago

I found it here

But I think if you contact them You will get the same offer

sxdfgnb commented 1 year ago

Also, you can be part of the Referral Program if you looking to earn extra passive money

mdeweerd commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the link to the pricing (>=15$/month) and the free 7 day trial. The pricing on the company's site seems similar.

My point is that we currently have 2captcha (minimum $3 one-time, good for about 1000 captchas or 2.5 years of operation, human resolution) and capmonster (minimum $6 one time, good for about 10000 captchase or >= 25 years of operation, AI resolution). Both these solutions cost way less than $15/month and one of them is AI based.

The (virtual) cost of my time to add this is around $150 and according to statistics there are less then 25 users.

I am not looking to gain money from this, but supposing that there are users preferring to pay $15/month for AI resolution, rather than $6 one time, and supposing that referral is 10% of these sums and an ROI in 18 months, then 6 referrals paying a monthly $15 would pay back the effort.

Currently there are less then 25 users, and I do not see why anyone would choose to pay $15/month to get meter data of one meter, especially with the two low cost options available.

EDIT: The commission is 10% for 3 months. So $3 to $4.5/new paying user - so requiring 30 to 50 users to payback the effort.

sxdfgnb commented 1 year ago

Hi I understand your Point of view but you miss this feature "Solve UNLIMITED Captchas for subscription" not "pay per usage". If you recalculate this, you will find that there is no comparison in prices

CaptchAI is already available in many Software Captcha options like GSA SER and other third-party library like Captcha-Tools So it is an opportunity for any software to add them to service users cause they started taking place in the market recently.

Anyway, I will send them your opinion I wish you good luck ^^

mdeweerd commented 1 year ago

The offer may certainly start to be interesting if you need more than 25000 captcha resolutions per month or more than 50 every hour for 16 hours every day. Which is very unlikely to be the case of home users.

CaptchaAI commented 1 year ago

Hi @mdeweerd We have read all your messages and we got your point.

But If you are still interested in adding us to your Software, We offer 1 Free Thread for all Your users. All they have to do is :

Hope that help Your Users ^^

mdeweerd commented 1 year ago

I thank you for your proposals and as you know I updated MetersToHA to add captchaai and lost the code during an unfortunate git operation.

The real offer was 1 Free Thread for MetersToHA Users for 1 month " which means that after that MetersToHA users would still have to spend $180/year which does not meet expections.

Offering a free thread for each user "for life", possibly limited to a limited number of captcha resolutions each day would have been more appropriate knowing that in return you wouild have had the exposure.

I close this issue as a "will not implement again" unless the offer is really adapted to user needs.

tikismoke commented 11 months ago

Captchai response is:

Dear,

I believe it's not a lifetime offer, it's available for 1 month.

Sorry for any misunderstanding 😭

mdeweerd commented 11 months ago

@tikismoke Thank you for your feedback. I had asked further clarification but did not get a response yet.

mdeweerd commented 11 months ago

CaptchaAI sales indicated that a user can get a free thread by asking every month.