Hello, as I continue exploring the seemingly endless - for me, at least - possibilities that I have access to through SmartThings, all while being as confused as a toddler introduced to calculus, I have been exploring all lighting options available. The one I have always been the most fascinated b…

My favorite example of ST limitations… Aeotec makes a zwave battery powered “quad“ button whose product description says you can control up to 16 different scenes with it. Which is true with most Z wave hubs. [image] Aeotec WallMote Quad, Wireless Zwave on Off Switch, Z-Wave Plus Enabled,…

I find most of this quite new honestly, I checked out reviews of the ST ecosystem and was told it was “The most compatible ecosystem, with a little less automation power than Hubitat”. They even gave scores to each. Naturally, they don’t tell the whole story but… yeah, I’m learning the good and the …

[image] JDRoberts: But their own device is crippled by the ST architecture. I’m not familiar with the remote you’re referencing, but the lack of functionality you’re describing sounds like a limitation of the stock DTH, not any overall limitation of the architecture. If other z-wave hubs are …

So in order to fully customize my experience with an RPi I need to then write my own edge driver to install on the hub? If so, how does one write an edge driver? All I know is that they’re in LUA, but if there was any starting guide or developer FAQ that’d be great!

[image] philh30: I’m not familiar with the remote you’re referencing, but the lack of functionality you’re describing sounds like a limitation of the stock DTH, not any overall limitation of the architecture. If other z-wave hubs are receiving those swipe scenes, then it should be completely pos…

[image] Xtremethegamer: So in order to fully customize my experience with an RPi I need to then write my own edge driver to install on the hub? If so, how does one write an edge driver? All I know is that they’re in LUA, but if there was any starting guide or developer FAQ that’d be great! St…

[image] Xtremethegamer: It may seem very specific, but the #1 priority for me is having total freedom over what I can do. A cloud based system like Smartthings will not give you total freedom, and is fairly locked down. You generally can get things working the way you want, but are at their w…

I see. Do you think SmartThings and Home Assistant can work together? I’m mostly trying to understand how everything works and I think it’ll be a long while before I do actually outgrow it, even the examples I mentioned can probably be done with ST and the commercial light strips, it’s just to under…

Yes they can work together well - I ran a dual setup for awhile. Once Home Assistant is installed, there is a Smartthings integration in Home Assistant to expose Smartthings devices to Home Assistant. [image] SmartThings Instructions on setting up SmartThings within Home Assistant. …

[image] Xtremethegamer: what matter/edge drivers will do to change things (the former being one of the reasons I wanted ST) SmartThings is taking their usual “ Half a loaf is better than none” approach to Matter. They have announced that they Will be able to bring mattercompliant devices int…

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