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This forum is now read-only for archive purposes.
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Give Athom some time, it will take a couple of months to polish the software, before it gets stable.
you have 3 choises
1. Receive your Homey as beta and submit bug reports and stop wining about it had to be stable yet.
2. Cancel your order and stop wining it is taking to long, a real tweaker knows these kind of products takes some (long) time to fully work.
3. Wait for the retail experience and stop winking that it takes so long.
Escpecially those people how haven't have a Homey yet are complaining the most. Have patience.
My Homey is running ok on 0.8.32 with lots of apps and flows and most of the time it is pretty stable. Once in 2 a 3 days I have to reboot or do a power cycle, but he! it is a beta product which I was warned for. I have the beta-pre-order Homey.
I have also Domoticz which is my main controller for 1,5 year and I'm waiting
for to shift to Homey as main controller when it is stable enough, which I can wait for.
For the people who knows me, I'm a very impatience person!
So once again, like many others said before, stop polutting this forum and contribute by discussing bugs and errors, so we can help Athom.
That said, I do agree with that comminucation could be better from Athom regarding bug handling and update frequency, so that I can contribute and hel Athom more often.
For example its fun to play a sound if you press the KaKu doorbell sender, but the WAF is very(!) low if that sounds starts 4/5/6+ times and Homey generates a horrible sound.
I really want to use Homey with zwave modules so I could test more things, but if all my modules are dead... testing is impossible.
Sun info is great and most of the controllers on the market uses it. My Homey still isn't able to turn some lights on at sunset ends.
The Beta flag is very nice and please keep in mind that Gmail was also in Beta for 5,5 years. Most of these years 100million+ people used it.
So Beta doesn't mean that everything is allowed and a Beta can take a long, long time and also a Beta can be very stable.
Homey now is 6 month in open Beta. Don't expect a stable/retail experience for within 3-6 months.
If you don't like the sound Homey makes, plug it out of the socket. If you don't want to use Homey right now, throw it in the closet and wait 6 months. But please, stop whining about everything that is not working on the forums (with a side note that informing instead of whining is something else completely. I believe this is the 3rd or 4th time that I see a post of you on this forum that your doorbell isn't working. Athom knows it.).
"Still" is subjective.
Homey's software is, a big gamble, in development for 2(?) years by a team 6+ great devs.
Sun is not working for more then 6 updates.
KaKu "debouncing" was already "fixed".
Issues are being made, issues are being closed, issue stays.
Then users are going to look for different ways to communicate/tell whats going wrong.
And if Athom tells us more about what is going to be fixed, what is high on there todo list, then people will stop whining.
issue is reopened;
https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/540
So for now I will stop "complaining/whining" about it.
also big lol to see that when i didn't had a Homey is wasn't aloud the complain and now I have a Homey I'm still not aloud to complain....
Let wait and see....
So tired...
Bplz back on topic
If a issue is closed with; "fixed in x.x.x"
Then users expect its fixed.....
And after seeing all these great walk through movies/demo, my (and reading the forum a lot of others) expectations were high.
+1 to go back on topic!
Probably not a very good comparison but still, Atom is doing pretty well in my opinion. I think it is an amazing achievement to put so many protocols in one product and at the same time being so versatile and open. Of course it is not working perfectly. Athom never pretended that it would work flawlessly from the very start. Yes, it can be frustrating that one has to wait longer than expected, but come on, in potential it is a great product with an almost unlimited range of home automation options. From my experience as a programmer I know how complex developing can be, especially if you have implement so many third party technologies with zillions of variables.
I think we all must have some more patience and give the guys some encouragement. Complaining and whining is so easy and not what these guys deserve.
Keep on going guys, you are doing great.
My Homey has never ever been stuck or did a spontaneous reboot!
As stable as hell.
Even if my debug session is interrupted because of dead battery on my laptop (for example) it al just reconnects and without errors or anything just continues to log.
Now that's great work in my opinion.
(btw, I think for most users the IR improvements should have a higher prio than the Bluetooth LE apps API)
I would like improvements on iR
I'd gladly delay IR improvements for one or two weeks if that means that developers (both from the community and in-house) can start building Bluetooth LE apps parallel to my IR improvements. I hope you guys understand.
No really, I am looking forward to the documentation of the Bluetooth to see what new apps I can come up with
So happy you are not in charge.
Without documentation there will be no apps being created for Bluetooth by the community.
But the documentation will probably be created along side the api so it will not cause any extra delay because of it.