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This forum is now read-only for archive purposes.
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Most if not all of my devices today are Z-Wave and I use a PC if at home, for most stuff. I do my work at the computer, I manage my file servers from one, and I have a few in my secluded home office. With 3 or so PC's at an arms length I would feel pretty stupid configuring stuff from a cell phone. It will be very hard to convince myself not to switch to Domoticz or something else, running fine with a Z-Wave stick on Linux.
What is the motivation behind this move? I have friends that configure everything using their phone, and would be fine controlling their smart home from one. Homey is not an alternative for them. It is barely an alternative for me, and I don't mind reading forum post after forum post to get something to work and then have it break on me later.
But then again, maybe the next app version will be crazy developed and I will be fine using a Android emulator. I sure am looking forward to it, because that app would have to be great.
the same bugs that are in homey the day i bought it (a year ago) are still in it today. and instead of fixing it they cripple us even more be removing features. how stupid do you have to be to think this is a good idea. removing it does not have any benefit. not removing it does not have any negative effects, so why would they remove it? their app is terrible and their new app that i have tested for 2 months is filled with "game breaking" bugs that make it pretty much unusable. i have pretty much stopped using homey already because most of the smart devices got even smarter then homey in the mean time while homey has been kicking itself in the nuts and actually going backwards instead of improving. i was already thinking about getting a different smart device but this settles it. goodbye homey
in the netherlands the google home will be released "later this year" but that could still take 6 more months so i think i will just go for alexa. i care more about voice command support then domotica support but if you have a lot of domotica idk how well alexa works with that
1/ limit the scope of the tool. Simpler features, focus on quality over quantity for a broader market.
2/ move to a more gated and proprietary device support.
They are trying to become apple homekit. A limited hardware offering from third parties that play nice with a simple interface. But without machine learning it will be simple for simples sake and not mastering complexity.
IMO