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Which Z-wave hubs can I trust to still be working in the future? Is there some z-wave card or other hardware plugin I can DIY add one of my home machines, along
by carride 5y ago
Which Z-wave hubs can I trust to still be working in the future? Is there some z-wave card or other hardware plugin I can DIY add one of my home machines, along with software to control and monitor. In 2016 my Staples Connect z-wave hub became a brick when Staples shut down that department. Now my Samsung 2019 z-wave hub is also abandoned by Samsung.
- ars 5y agoHubitat will still be working. It runs 100% locally, and you don't need the cloud for anything. There is an app for remote access if you want. And you can do remote access yourself if you are skilled with tunneling through your router.
- carride 5y agoThanks. Hubitat looks good. I see it has MQTT [0] interface which makes it compatible with almost anything. OpenHAB for my case, and Home Assistant too. I think NodeRed support was available even earlier, which is also a good option. [0] https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=MQTT_Interface https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=MQTT_Interface
- ars 5y agoYou can also write and install drivers for anything you like. And you can also write apps for it. And there is a huge community who does exactly that, for anything not provided. Basically even if the company when under, you could keep using it by replacing everything built in with user installed stuff.