Alternative Hubs

They don’t use Hail. Very few brands licensed the Lutron patent required for the Hail command, primarily Leviton and Eaton Cooper. And since that license added cost, budget brands like GE/Jasco didn’t use it.

SmartThings added in a form of efficient communication specifically for those GE switches to keep the status current. It’s not quite polling because there’s an initiating event at the switch. But that’s pretty resource-intensive so Hubitat did not implement the same thing.

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