I returned the lifx for the hue starter yesterday. Its a huge improvment…it actually works!! And theres zero delay. Now i have to work out how i originally integrated all of my routines/rule machine stuff to use the new bulbs and now I have 3, attempt to add them in correctly at all the right colour/brightness.
I woke up to a 5 am wake up light totally in error this am(thanks hue labs!), walked into the kitchen to be greeted with a 100% brightness red light. Work needed on my ever more complexing setup!!
The short answer is, I do not have any updates. We have been focusing a significant level of effort on expanding platform capacity/stability/health. I promise this is on the list, I am just not sure the timeline. I am keeping this on the radar and will provide updates when I have them. Thanks for the patience!
It’s one of the most annoying things about ST for many UK users. If you read the top of this thread @April said it was a priority, but that was nearly six months ago. Since then, @Aaron said that it is “on the list”, but kind of implied that it was no longer a priority.
I bet if more ST support staff liked on this side of the pond it would get fixed, pronto!
I’ve just got my hub and have been using the GitHub integration and then I go back in and the buttons have disappeared ! What is it with this platform, either it should be there and work, or not be there, but it is flaking.
I was wanting to pull from the main github SmartThingsPublic branch, but it keeps flaking in and out.
ST seem to have lost interest in enhancing / fixing the UK platform - probably because of the fundamental flaws in the product that have now manifested themselves worldwide. UK support are pretty well saturated with other issues I suspect, If you look at the frequency of responses here in the community from UK ST staff it has significantly reduced in recent weeks/months . It appears that the UK guys don’t have a lot of clout within their own company in getting things fixed. All ST’s available development resource quite understandably is now hands on deck fixing the current platform ‘meltdown’ failings.
ST stated a while back that they had completed their part of International oAuth fixes and that it was now down to the third party developers to implement it and so sort of washed their hands of ongoing issues. It’s very disappointing therefore that fundamental ST parts like this GitHub integration remain broken despite being promised by ST as a high priority months back. It’s not right to shift the ownness for the missing UK features to developers. GitHub and UK is just not a priority currently.
Adding and maintaining custom smart apps and device handler code on ST is absolutely not user friendly currently - it’s way beyond most average users. Even for the tech savvy not having an easy way of knowing when updated code is published and an easy way to apply it (as in GitHub integration) is shamefull. It also makes the platform unattractive to develop for.
This last aspect is sad. Developers are getting frustrated and steering clear until things are resolved. I look at the product as ‘it is what it is’ - it doesn’t work currently but hopefully it will in the future. Until then I’m avoiding using it for any automation purpose as it just fails and causes frustration. You waste hours/days chasing problems that aren’t fixable. However I’m keeping an eye on it for the future as ST are one of the only companies in a position to bring home automation to the mass market.
I worked it out. If you login initially it puts you on the US servers, so you can access My Device Handlers and do github integration. It even let’s you then pull from the SmartThingsPublic repository and pull all the example/updated devices in. But, nothing works. You then have to go to My Locations and it’s only then it realises that you are in the UK and makes you log back in again and all the GitHub integration is gone and anything you though you were working on is gone. You then have to write everything yourself manually from scratch.
Basically, it’s crap. Ridiculous that there is a full really good GitHub integration if you have a US Hub, but not if you have a UK one.
It does feel like being in the UK anything smart things related you always have to wait for it to cross the pond. Doesn’t make you feel like a valued customer and whats more frustrating is when you think you’ve added it and find out your on the american server .
Meh, just being impatient… I like writing SmartApps and device handlers, Github would just make it that much easier. Not that I like Groovy all that much, I prefer more type safety, be nice if there was a way to enable ‘strict’ mode
After the UK Oauth issues were fixed ST which was top of the list a while back. ST basically said it was up to third parties to resolve UK incompatibilities. If even ST cannot be bothered to fix something like github integration themselves then what hope do we have in other vendors helping us UK users?
I agree GitHub integration would make life simpler and the fact the Americans have this feature, which means the code the logic has been designed, so why are we still without it.
I just bought this device on the basis of open developement now I’ve just found out about the UK issues and lack of GitHub integration here, fingers x Samsung sort this out fairly quickly.
