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I used HomeAssistant for over five years and pretty much hated every minute of it due to the amount of effort you describe. Setup, upgrades and maintenance wer
by snapetom 5y ago
I used HomeAssistant for over five years and pretty much hated every minute of it due to the amount of effort you describe. Setup, upgrades and maintenance were always a major pain. Features were introduced, rearchitected, and dropped without any consideration whether users 1) Wanted them in the first place 2) Whether it would be a burden to change things. 3) For dropped features, whether anyone would miss it.
It's just a very poorly ran and guided open source project. I ended up buying a Hubitat last year and it's required a lot less effort to run.
- mafro 5y agoI won't comment on the behaviour/oversight of the OS project itself, but as a user I have had an opposite experience to you. I am still using HA after about five years, and once I had it setup (which admittedly was hard work) it's been no trouble at all. - Upgrades have never caused an outage - Basically every device is already supported - I can write my own code to extend as necessary - It does not talk to the WAN at all - My only outage was when my SD card died in the rpi
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- klinquist 5y agoAgree on Hubitat. Decided to ditch SmartThings. Went all-in on HA for a month. Went to Hubitat and am much happier.