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Any discussion of open source home automation should include Mozilla's "Things": https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/ https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/

• gatherhunterer 7y ago
  I greatly prefer Mozilla’s solution. Home Assistant seemed to have some critical issues when I used it for my two switches and one light bulb. Even turning them on and off on a schedule was dubious. It would forget a device or two and leave it as-is indefinitely. I found it odd that Home Assistant would not alert me to a lost device. Not only does WebThings work for me but it also has a UI that has some thought put into it instead of just spitting its API into a Material interface. It is much easier to use on a small mobile device because of its intentional responsiveness. Maybe it just did not play well with my devices but Home Assistant felt like an MVP that was not up to the task of dependability.
  • SEJeff 7y ago
    When did you last try home assistant? It improves very rapidly and the new “Lovelace” interface is insanely customizable along with being excellent on mobile.
    • gatherhunterer 7y ago
      This was over the summer that I tried it and traded it in for Mozilla’s WebThings.