It’s much faster, more reliable, and the phone app works much better and is way more customizable. Personally I couldn’t go back to only using Smartthings, HA simply has too much to offer but Smartthings handles Zigbee and Z-wave device enrollment much better.About four months ago I switched everything over fully to Home-assistant and haven’t looked back. I guess my point in all this is, you don’t have to make a choice of returning to Smartthings, just grab your Smartthings hub and use that as a middle-man for your devices and use HA for automation management.
#Smartthings says im away android
but until then, Android actionable notifications will have to do.
Really the only thing I miss at this point is Google Assistant API to allow actionable notifications like Alexa offers. At one point in the transition I couldn’t get Smartthings to respond, but it worked through HA I guess the public API was still working as intended. I´m not really interested in using HA as a Zigbee or Z-wave hub seeing how many seem to have issues with flaky connections and USB dongles etc.įeel I made a decent choice with this and haven’t had a single glitch although it’s only been running a few weeks now as I mentioned, but offloading or not using HA with the task of connecting Zigbee and Z-wave devices was a no-brainer as Smartthings does this so well.įunny thing is that the devices seem to respond faster through HA then Smartthings, I suppose that’s down to the cloud API being fast enough while not having the overhead of the Smartthings app. Now, I don’t want to ditch Smartthings as I will use that as an endpoint to connect all my Zigbee and Z-wave devices (around 80 so far). And of course Automations I never thought was possible before, it really is night and day when it comes to how feature-rich the HA experience is and not a single hitch so far.
#Smartthings says im away install
5-10 minutes in i had access to all my Smartthings connect devices and HA discovered several devices and integrations on first install that i wasn’t able to before.Īfter running HA for a few weeks I have made integrations to my Nest doorbell, Nest minis, Google Text-to-speech, Volumio, kitchen appliances (home connect) Air conditioner, Energy monitoring, fully kiosk, roborock and much, much more.Įven the dashboards allow for much more control, both in terms of devices as well as design. I actually started out with Smartthings a few years ago and added Actiontiles at first for tablet Dashboards to my house, but a few weeks ago i took the plunge and installed Home Assistant.įirst off, the installation was a breeze and not at all complicated as some older posts might have you believe, integration with Smartthings went smooth as well. Nothing about that hit the status page, even though it’s a known issue.
that may change with Edge or it may not, but as long as they can continue to force send hub updates without giving customers a means to defer or deny them, there are likely going to be some stability issues.Īs an example of something that doesn’t make it to the status page, something recently changed in how button capabilities are displayed in the app, with many people reporting that buttons now list eight or 10 or even 12 possible actions which don’t actually work and make the UI very cluttered and confusing. Each individual issue won’t affect every user every time, and some are worse than others, but it’s often enough that whenever there’s a problem, most people assume it is a platform issue.
And the following topics for discussion of Edge.Īs far as reliability, it’s about the same as it’s always been: not everything gets posted to the status page, but there is typically a platform level issue every two or three weeks.
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