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tonesto7 / echo-speaks

Integrate your Amazon Echo devices into your Hubitat environment to create virtual Echo Devices. These virtual devices will allow you to speak text, make announcements, control media playback including volume, and many other Alexa features.
https://tonesto7.github.io/echo-speaks-docs/
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[Feature Request] Heroku discontinuing free tier Nov 28 #1046

Closed markcanup closed 1 year ago

markcanup commented 1 year ago

I received a notification that the free tier of Heroku will be going away November 28, and will require transitioning to a paid plan. From what I can tell, the least expensive option (Hobby) is $7/month. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and probably others all have free tiers that appear to be comparable to what Heroku will be charging $7/month for. If I was going to pay a monthly fee to use Echo Speaks I would much rather pay you than Salesforce / Heroku.

Please consider making it possible to run Echo Speaks with a provider other than Heroku.

I recognize this is not a trivial request given all the integration you have built to make setup and updates work so seamlessly with Heroku.

Thanks!

markcanup commented 1 year ago

I found this thread: https://community.hubitat.com/t/replace-heroku-with-local-server/88353/19 I now have a local server running the Echo Speaks server successfully. So my original request is satisfied since I no longer rely on Heroku. I know you are considering making local server setup easier, which would be welcome. Thanks!