Hey guys, basically I want some feedback from users before purchasing ST. How has ST been working for you? What “things” do you love and are worth the money? What things should be avoided? What about a cheaper alternative “thing” that has the same outcome? One thing I can thing of is instead of purc…

[image] tgauchat: And the CEO / Founder Alex Hawkinson has subsequent admitted that SmartThings would not have prevented this damage (and still can’t?) The hub by itself, not yet. But hub V1/V2 at my house could prevent the same situation. I have all of my networking equipment on battery back…

[image] jody.albritton: three different internet connections. Impressive, but still not free of Cloud Dependency. The 3 internet connections could all be down due to a catastrophic infrastructure failure, or the SmartThings cloud could be down. All odds are relative, of course, but, obviously…

[image] tgauchat: All odds are relative, of course, but, obviously, the idea scenario for SmartThings is to make as much “critical functionality” as possible is on the Hub V2 with it’s own 4xAA battery backup, no internet and no cloud required. If you are away and want to get the notification…

[image] jody.albritton: I have three separate internet connections from three different providers. Two are load balanced, one is a backup Wholly crap… That’s what I have at work! I just got a gig fiber at home and I thought that was awesome.

[image] jody.albritton: The bottom line is this. If every single thing ran locally, you would still be vulnerable to power outages and internet reliability. Plan accordingly. I’m being pedantic, but assert that if we have local processing plus battery powered water valve (and sirens, perhaps)…

[image] johnconstantelo: That’s what I have at work! That’s what I have where I work too :smile: Unfortunately, none of my connections are gigabit. Out here in rural Texas, I am lucky when I hit 20 megabits across both connections. I have LTE that can go to 60 megabits, but it’s insanely exp…

SmartThings has been an ongoing project and a learning experience. I have had plenty of problems, but the system seems to be functioning better. I only use lights at present, not wanting to get into door locks, garage door openers, etc. Problems I have experienced include: Delayed or missing sig…

Let’s see… I’ve had ST a little over a year now. Presence has been rock solid for me since day 1. The few times it hasn’t worked has been due to phone issues that I can recall. There has been internet down or power out issues obviously. I’m speaking solely about ST here. As a result of presence I…

This puts me at ease, I’m imagining that the one time someone breaks into my house the system will fail. Thank you for going in depth with individual “things”

[image] lalo: This puts me at ease, I’m imagining that the one time someone breaks into my house the system will fail. Thank you for going in depth with individual “things” I look to SmartThings to keep my home safe from myself…meaning in case I forget to turn something off that should not be…

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