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Shouldn’t it be obvious by now that if you are able to build a system that works, you could sell it endlessly for a fair price? If that is true it just means that no one cares enough to try and that makes me sad. Is this stuff really so hard that after decades of trying no one has been able to figure it out? People say that the really expensive stuff actually works. I realize that there are no perfect systems, although it isn’t clear why all of them do stupid things for no obvious reason.
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Everything from the well documented outages to stupid stuff like the newest release of the Android app displaying a splash screen for several seconds that never seemed to be necessary before. I might consider the idea that this is a dying hub and maybe I should replace it if the Smartthings system itself didn’t have its own serious problems. Each time I reset the hub I get everything back to normal for a little while. It doesn’t appear to be my zwave devices because each time it happens I lose the ability to control anything and everything. Sometimes it will work for two days and sometimes it will be a few minutes before it gets “tired” of doing any work anymore.Īs you can imagine, the “excitement” of seeing something actually work is pretty depressing.
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It maintains full IP connectivity and if I power cycle it or send a reset request from the IDE it will start sending commands again…for a little while.
In my case, my hub has recently started simply ignoring commands as if it is tired. I am a Smartthings user (v2.0 hub) and I am getting so frustrated with the instabilities of the system that I have started to look for other options.
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It would be really nice if we could get an update to this post. I also feel good that SmartThings will continue to get better and add additional features. Results: SmartThings is hands down the winner here I get 95% of the function and features that Homeseer gave me with 95% better reliability and ease of use. Lack of complete customization (SmartThings lacks in this area).Dependent on Cloud/Internet (personally I have had no issues with this, but if my internet goes down, then my entire Home Automation goes down.Reliability (I have had my ST setup running for several weeks with over 50 Zwave devices and it’s rock solid, no crashes, resets or false reporting).Price (The hub was $99.99 and that was it, no dedicated server, no expensive controller).Setup (It just works, Every device paired up and worked the first time).Upkeep (It felt like I had a part-time job just keeping my Homeseer system up and running, at one point last year I just unplugged the entire system and stopped using Home Automation).Bugs (Most of my lights would not report back their status to the Homeseer controller and often would stop responding).Setup (It takes hours to pair all your Zwave devices to Homeseer, and days trying to configure them correctly).Reliability (At best my Homeseer system would be stable for 4-5 days before something went wrong).
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Price (The controller and server, plus add-ons can quickly get you into the $1000.00 range).Community support (A large online forum for support).Touchscreen customization (You can create a touchscreen interface with full customization).Complete customization (Anything you can think of could be done in the Homeseer software).At that time I had everything connected to Homeseer on a dedicated home server.
All of my light switches are GE Zwave switches, I have 7 Motion sensors, 6 door sensors, three deadbolt locks, a Zwave garage door opener, a Zwave thermostat and a wall mounted iPad. This will allow you to trigger on the device LUX value.I currently have over 50 Zwave devices in my home about three years ago I did a massive Zwave deployment in my house.
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If you need to trigger on the light level, install the SmartApp named "Smart Lighting".