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I honestly feel like smart homes are getting worse each year for me. Now even Hue is an unreliable and unnecessarily frustrating experience. The only actual imp
by the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
I honestly feel like smart homes are getting worse each year for me. Now even Hue is an unreliable and unnecessarily frustrating experience. The only actual improvement in my setup has been that the IKEA Dirigera hub is now a solid improvement but some Hue stuff doesn’t work with it.
On the other hand some manufacturers are now actively fighting home assistant and the matter switch is non existent. A total zero number of devices in my home run over matter, something that I didn’t expect given the huge amount of excitement early on.
It feels like rather than everything slowly converging I now run two hubs still, custom smart home apps, a largely unreliable and useless home assistant next to some things with HomeKit.
I really can’t stand it and I’m incredibly frustrated by it.
- ratiolat 3y agoDirigera still does not support Matter. I bought it for 'coming soon' Matter support, but it's still not there. Have been waiting for looong time now.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoThat’s why I originally replaced the hub. But it’s a much better hub on its own so I’m not too mad. I can’t find matter devices independently that I want to use and are actually working properly.
- tacticalturtle 3y agoDo you have any examples of manufacturers that are fighting Home Assistant? I just started using it and getting into home automation, and that’s disappointing to hear
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoThe famous example at the moment is the family of MyQ garage doors (Chamberlain, Lift Master etc.). Integrations that break after an upgrade and don’t get fixed for longer than I can deal with are more common.
- adestefan 3y agoI just installed a ratgdo on my Lift Master door and it’s great.
- aksss 3y agoPersonally, I shop for automation features based solely on their capacity to integrate with Home Assistant.