Well that’s me played with the Hub for about 8 hours now and I’m about to stick it back in the box and take it back.
No Github integration in the UK
Sorely lacking documentation on commands, ie. StoreImage
IDE stops displaying logs
Belkin WeMo switch randomly just shows as not there available, even though it’s plugged in and connected.
No Honeywell EvoHome support.
No access to EvoHome Beta and no timeframe for when it will be available.
No ability to connect to generic IP cameras. Even built code for this myself and it just times out and then maybe one time in twenty runs and then complains the image is too large. But it’s not documented anywhere what image size you can use.
When I login initially to IDE it takes me to the UIS site, I have to hit Locations for it to detect I am in the UK. If I don’t do this, I can create lots of things which then don’t work.
and that’s all I’ve found to begin with.It just seems pretty flakey and not that well documented / supported.
It does have drawbacks and does need some work. But what else is out there with the same level of flexibility? Would definitely consider it if it is viable.
Agreed, there is very little out there with IP, ZWave and ZigBee on an open platform. This was why I bought it initially.
However, the fact that it is crippled in the UK and that basic stuff is so flakey is ridiculous. I don’t mind writting my own device handlers, or modifying other people code to connect to stuff. But the fact that it errors all over the place, calls are not fully documented, it works sometimes then timesout others, means it’s nigh on impossible to work out what is going wrong with it.
Only thing that I know that works properly is Control4.
It’s a challenge; it’s a pain; I hate it; I am stuck; I love it, is working; Is broke; WTF; HUH, is back!; My system is gone!; Help; Now is fine; Deleted everything, starting over; Maybe I shouldn’t’ve, now is worse;. I hate this! I love it, is fast…
This is a dead API and is no longer supported, hence the lack of documentation. There are some people that still use it and it works well for them, se we didn’t just turn it off.
Coming soon. As you mentioned, there is a beta going on right now.
We’re working towards a fix for this as we speak.
Which URL are you using. You may be using one specifically for the US environment. Are you using ide.smartthings.com?
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347e9572-fb9a-41c3-8d41-d0986347707b 18:17:43: info http://USER:MYPASSWD@rdonalds.dynalias.com:1024/img/mjpeg.cgi
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It would be good to get a timeframe for when EvoHome will be available ? (this week, this month, next 2 months) Not looking for an exact, just a rough idea of when I can see it ?
I use either developer.smartthings.com or ide.smartthings.com. Both take me to the US site initially, I can use GitHub integration etc. Then I click on Locations, it then asks me to re-login and puts me on the EU site.
@slagle I have that very same issue and had GitHub integration set up until I realised I was doing that in some US alternate universe prior to clicking on locations and being asked to login again - what’s the correct URL? I’ve tried accessing via ide.smartthings.com and developer.smarthtings.com
It’s the most frustrating interface I’ve ever come across. It’s geek-ware that’s been marketed as a consumer product. I think the fact that in the UK Samsung partnered with the place you’d go to buy your washing machine rather than the place that you’d go to buy your geek gear was tactical genius… I’d I’d bought it in Maplins, ID expect it to be as crappy and unstable as it initially was (and jeez… You think you have it bad now!!!). I feel Samsung did a Microsoft, and sold the product knowing it wasn’t ready for launch in order to get a mass beta test market.
Six months in, I’m at the stage where I tolerate it. In reality, everything it does could be done with a £99 alarm system and the Hue lighting system, but it is what it is. I do intend to grow the system, but after Google closing off the Nest home automation hub, I have a real concern that ST isn’t doing as well as they wanted it to do, and a year down the line we’re going to be subjected to the same fate… I also have a concern with how much of the “brain work” is done in a rack cabinet in Ireland/Germany/silicon valley… Basically makes the home security element a farce.
Lately. I’m also concerned by the battery life on the presence sensors being worse than it initially was… I seem to be continually changing batteries on one of them.
The only solace for me is that Z wave and ZigBee are open standards, so as time goes on, I fully expect a “better” brain (possibly raspberry Pi based) to come on the market, and I’m hoping the rest of the devices simply slot in… This allows me to keep investing in growing my system.
Right now it kind of is, at least it’s not on any immediate road map to be enhanced. I am trying to figure out whether there are plans in the future to make it better or not.
The storeImage API isn’t used by any camera we support at the moment.
If you look at the Device Handler Templates:
Dropcam, Foscam, and Yoics Camera are all using storeImage. I think the other dropcam is using storeimageins3