OPEN LETTER or PLEA - Please give me some guidance about investing time in Smartthings

[HA_fanatic (Bob)]

@JDRoberts

If you want a system with a longer MFOP you either have to pay a lot more money or switch to a system with many fewer devices supported and a much simpler rules engine.

I am not even sure that money solves the MFOP problem. Simplicity does. You can go with less complex systems that offer increased reliability on one aspect of your home automation, for a limited number of devices. But there isn’t a system out there that integrates as many devices as SmartThings does, with an equivalent feature set. Or is it?

When in doubt about SmartThings, just go here:

ST Alternative?

Not that I WANT to leave ST as I love the fact that we have access to the IDE and some seriously advanced features; but the reliability of the system and inconsistent nature of it (works one day, doesn’t the next, etc.) is just too much… especially since I have it implemented at my house to use fully, not just as a toy/hobby. Since Wink is dead or dying out; is there anything else out there that is comparable to ST but actually works? I know this is probably not the best place to post something like this however I love what ST in theory should do… just tired of waiting endlessly for what seems to be a one man support show to fix. It’s sad that Samsung doesn’t fund their dev/support better because it’s clearly VERY lacking and I’m sure that poor guy or poor guys are just completely swamp…