I have been paying attention with great interest to the reports of poltergeists, slowness, network issues, and other reports. I try to stay out of rants, and help where I can. Over time I have sensed that I do not seem to have as many issues as others do, and I’m going to try to document why I think…

If server location is a factor, then it is a fixable problem. I maintain that based on your use cases and described simple setup that you are a perfect candidate for ST to investigate. Especially a presence sticking. I don’t have a Harmony setup and I probably don’t use the same server, but other…

Thanks for the kind words. SmartThings support has been looking at the issues at my house for several months. They are currently looking into both the presence sensor sticking and why the zwave lock randomly unlocks. They’ve verified both behaviors on their side, they just don’t know why it happens. …

Kudos on your post and reliability, Brian. I have to say that my V2 hub has been reliable (a few isolated quirks) after the pre-Halloween schedule madness. I’m still not fully in love with ST, but that has more to do on the UI side of things and how things work, but that’s another topic. I want to …

See, the real problem with this community is the encouragement to buy and add more devices. Haven’t we learned anything? :wink: I am building a home theater, soooo maybe a harmony is in my future. I had one once, but it broke very quickly (an old 890). I do try to avoid IR as much as possible, …

[image] bridaus: I do try to avoid IR as much as possible, it has always been too laggy for me. I don’t see a lag for my setup. I have a TV, BD player and a Roku 3, which all use IR (I believe that is how Harmony control the Roku).

I pretty much do not use any custom device type or SmartApp (if there is any ST native) except one or two home brewed ones. More than 99% of time routines work for me including which involves mobile presence.I have seen more failures with Smart Lighting and mobile iOS app in general. I have several …

Wow, that goodnight routine is chock full. I really think it depends on how reliable all the devices are in your routine. Maybe your very full routine uses devices that aren’t hanging… At this point the theories are many, and the answers are too few.

All are hues and family. That should be the slowest I would think, right? Turning off 10 of those, turning on 2 hues and setting their dim level to 10, changing SHM to armed stay, turning on a zwave switch … And never never fails… (Forget Halloween time). It’s very very difficult to generalize what …

[image] bridaus: uses devices that aren’t hanging… Bingo! My good bye routine is 10 times bigger, and rarely fails, unless for an identifiable reason, and there were too many in the past few weeks. And that is the root of all my problems. As I find issues, I start moving things around. First …

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bridaus (Brian) November 23, 2015, 9:32pm 19

I’ll admit my experience is a few years old on IR, but you are not helping my budget either.

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