Google Cloud IoT vs. Ordr

I consider myself very techy and found Google Cloud IoT platform very challenging to manage. The lack of tutorials and discussions to understand how each section works is very challenging. I specifically made a connection after several hours to Google Nest to third-party integration, Home Assistant. Shortly after Google Cloud upgraded to a new version breaking the connection. This was extremely frustrating. No service should take several hours to figure out, in my opinion, if it does, the platform is doing a poor job of making it easy. I'm personally very discouraged any time I ever have to use this platform. It's very hard to find answers.

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It works extremely as a monitoring tool and creating access control policies. This function works flawless for us. I do have issues with its other functions such as phishing activity and malware activity. It is being billed as having these great wonderful functions but I have not seen the proof that these actual do anything at all other than have an RNG to make it look like like its doing something. Frankly I am extremely unimpressed with these functions and the lack of transparency from Ordr on how this information is gathered.

• Integration with different brands of microcontrollers including the one currently used by Espresiff.
• The platform is very robust and secure.

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• Not beginner friendly.
• Needs more tutorials and walk throughs on how to get started.
• Very complicated and unless you know what you are doing you will be lost.
• Lack of material found on how to do each section / services.

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Although comparisons are hateful, even more so when we are talking about leading brands where the quality of their services are indisputable, the general environment of Google was more familiar to me since I use, for example, Google Firebase on a daily basis, where part of the concepts are similar, without Without a doubt, AWS services are excellent, but it was easier for me to go through the functions of Google Cloud IoT.

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• The amount of hours to get things integrated is negative.
• The amount of hours researching how to get devices integrated is negative.
• Overall the amount of time and effort getting things working has been a negative experience.

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