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I have a pretty decent home automation setup going for the last 5 years at this place with no issues using the hue ecosystem till my hue bridge died last month.

I have a pretty decent home automation setup going for the last 5 years at this place with no issues using the hue ecosystem till my hue bridge died last month. Motion battery free buttons and timers for lights and outlets. Have now made the jump to HA so we will see how long it can go post setup without falling over (and adding some things) but 5 years before the first issue (and so far I have some hue bulbs going on 10 years) is solid enough imho So it can be done and is not always a lie.

andiareso 3y ago
I strongly disagree with anyone saying home assistant is support he’ll. I enjoy automating and doing sysadmin things for fun, but I have a life and young children. I don’t have time to tinker as much. Home Assistant has come a long way and has been extremely reliable the last few years. I mostly use it for automating camera detections and motion/contact sensors for security. You can be as hands on or hands off as you want to be. In general I’ve found if you want to do any sort of automation whether store bought or tinker-level, you’re going to be wasting some time.
- katbyte 3y ago
  as i said in my experience with the hue ecosystem it ran for years, 5 years, with no issues. it literally was set and forget and just worked. until it died and i moved to HA i hadn't added or changed anything for at least 2 years to the point i had to install the app to my phone when the bridge died lol
dkarl 3y ago
My experience was more than five years ago, so if I get the itch again, I'll take another look.
- katbyte 3y ago
  it sounds like HA is far more polished now so i'm hoping it goes well. but hue over the last half decade has been 100% solid and reliable for me till the bridge died
joshspankit 3y ago
After a reasonable period of things working I just had an issue where some lights wouldn’t respond. At first I thought it was the saturated 2.4G wifi, then it got distracting enough to take up an early morning and it turned out that “for security reasons” HA made a choice to block my MQTT server until it was updated. Not my favourite discovery and required a whole migration plan. Now I’m seriously reading the above article and thinking after (4?) years it’s time to leave HA.

andiareso 3y ago

I strongly disagree with anyone saying home assistant is support he’ll. I enjoy automating and doing sysadmin things for fun, but I have a life and young children. I don’t have time to tinker as much. Home Assistant has come a long way and has been extremely reliable the last few years. I mostly use it for automating camera detections and motion/contact sensors for security. You can be as hands on or hands off as you want to be. In general I’ve found if you want to do any sort of automation whether store bought or tinker-level, you’re going to be wasting some time.

katbyte 3y ago
as i said in my experience with the hue ecosystem it ran for years, 5 years, with no issues. it literally was set and forget and just worked. until it died and i moved to HA i hadn't added or changed anything for at least 2 years to the point i had to install the app to my phone when the bridge died lol

dkarl 3y ago

My experience was more than five years ago, so if I get the itch again, I'll take another look.

katbyte 3y ago
it sounds like HA is far more polished now so i'm hoping it goes well. but hue over the last half decade has been 100% solid and reliable for me till the bridge died

joshspankit 3y ago

After a reasonable period of things working I just had an issue where some lights wouldn’t respond. At first I thought it was the saturated 2.4G wifi, then it got distracting enough to take up an early morning and it turned out that “for security reasons” HA made a choice to block my MQTT server until it was updated. Not my favourite discovery and required a whole migration plan. Now I’m seriously reading the above article and thinking after (4?) years it’s time to leave HA.