Forgive me, I’m confused. Given that there have been at least three active threads on this topic in the last month, what is it that you think isn’t current in the existing discussions? I’m just having a hard time figuring out what information you feel isn’t already being covered.
OK. I love Smartthings, I have supported Smartthings, but I am PEEVED beyond belief right now. The infernal switch to the Samsung account screwed things up right when I needed Things to work the most.
My wife is having some issues and has become bedridden, hopefully temporarily. Being able to control Smartthings thru the app and by Alexa has been a great help the past week for both of us. It’s allowed me to continue to go to work and allowed her to turn things on and off remotely.
However, I got the message to switch to the Samsung signon yesterday and thought I’d do it since it has to be done and it was supposed to just take a minute.
Well, for some reason, things didn’t work this morning when she tried to turn out some lights and the app asked for the new password which didn’t wor…
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I’m going to keep adding to this and be the guinea pig for others. Everyone is aware of the outages, firmware, problems that ST has been having since the beginning of the year. There have been numerous discussions around LOCAL processing, the benefits and downsides thereof and many of us (myself included) have really wanted a more local system. So in this great adventure I have ventured out into the Home Automation market to try to find the ONE. I’ll try to update this often.
Home Assistant
This is a really good system for a DIY open source project. The entire environment is written in Python and has integrations with a ton of systems. A primary example that lots of people find with other systems is the lack of support for Lutron Caseta if you don’t have a PRO hub. Well HA support…
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