I've been a RealVNC user for years, it's how I access and use my RPIs both on my LAN and remotely. I received an email today from them telling me that they are scrapping the free home plan (17 Jun 24) and offering various subscription services. Of course, being a tight git, I started looking for alternatives and while there are ways to have local LAN access, remotely is a rather more complex and complicated matter. Bums.
So I googled the text of the email and found this https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/realvnc-is-dropping-its-home-plan-and-barely-noting-its-free-lite-option/?comments=1&comments-page=1 . So buried away and barely noticeable is a lite (free) plan. It requires creating the new plan and therefore having to add the RPIs to the new 'Team' through the licensing on each VNC Server running on the RPIs. Anyway all is good and I'm back running (free) again. I know these companies have every right to charge for their services and I probably would have paid the subscription eventually - but it was a bit sneaky not mentioning the lite version.
:EDIT: I've just been reading the comments on the post above. They are flying in thick and fast lol
So I googled the text of the email and found this https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/realvnc-is-dropping-its-home-plan-and-barely-noting-its-free-lite-option/?comments=1&comments-page=1 . So buried away and barely noticeable is a lite (free) plan. It requires creating the new plan and therefore having to add the RPIs to the new 'Team' through the licensing on each VNC Server running on the RPIs. Anyway all is good and I'm back running (free) again. I know these companies have every right to charge for their services and I probably would have paid the subscription eventually - but it was a bit sneaky not mentioning the lite version.
:EDIT: I've just been reading the comments on the post above. They are flying in thick and fast lol