Migrating from SmartThings to Vera Plus

[bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart)]

@garyd9

Comparing to Vera (just to keep this post on topic): Vera does appear to monitor the connection with devices and alerts when something isn’t responding. I haven’t had occassion to actually see this in action, however, to know for a fact that it works. I’m sure one of my GE switches will “drop off” within a month or two and I’ll be able to see what happens. (I might also pull the air gap switch on one of them to see how long it takes Vera to notice

Your post is very insightful. I have some devices that are almost never used and I wonder if they are still on the mesh.

I’m going to create a piston that will poll all of my devices within a 24 hour period. Then using “device monitor” [OBSOLETE] Device Monitor - Get Notified if Devices Stop Reporting
I will receive a message about any device that has not reported in that time.

It’s unfortunate that we as users must work around these things that common sense says should be a basic feature. But, thanks to the many outstanding developers, we can take care of ourselves.