Flows & speed

sebbe463

So, I have tried almost all home automations gateways in the market (SmartThings, Vera, Tellstick, Fibaro, etc) and almost all of them are slow when it comes to execution of "rules"/"flows" or whatever they call them. Fibaro is for me the quickest.

I really want to buy Homey, because I like javascript and I am a developer so it fits me perfectly.

But I am a little worried about the speed when it comes to executing flows and I cant find any videos showing for example "turning a light on when there's motion between time XX and XX". When I go the the bathroom in the middle of the night I don't want it to take 3 seconds to turn on the lights.

Do someone have any experience on this? Would be great with some input

Regards

jorden

There are some differences in this:
- The Fibaro motion sensor (the one I have experience with) calls Homey directly, so the response is immediately (it could take up to 1 second to activate Hue lights, for example). The Fibaro pushes the info to Homey, so there's no delay.
- Other stuff that needs to be 'polled' takes a longer time. For example, I have developed an app that reads out the state of my IP Camera that is connected to Synology. It reads it out every 15 seconds so it might take up to 15 seconds before Homey notices any changes. So that's the other way around, Homey pulls the info from the device on a regular base.

KoenMartens

I think the best rule of thumb is that Homey itself has neglicable time taken for flows (I'm talking 100-500 milliseconds here in my experience). There is always a delay between sending a command to Homey and the delay between getting an command and performing an action on a device (much like @jorden says), but neither of those can be prevented and are also present in other systems.

For example, my LIFX lights turn on within the second after I press the button that contacts Homey via a HTTP command. Same with KAKU, HTTP-receiver, and IR-television.

EDIT: I can even use a http-command which I send to Homey, which sends a http-command to kodi to move the cursor up/down/left/right without any noticable delay between this method or directly calling Kodi via http.

sebbe463

Great. Yeah, sure, the communication between say a Z-Wave device and Homey will always take some time and that cant be avoided. But it's great to hear that Homey processes the flows so quickly. I think the whole home automation thingy is useless if it 1) requires internet for automation 2) takes more then 2 seconds to turn on a basic light when there's motion.

ErikVanDongen

A big plus on z-wave devices is its capability to associate sensors to switches directly, without the need of a controller, but with informing the controller with an update. This way switching a z-wave light based on a z-wave sensor is allways superfast and reliable!