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"My first time with Homey" (A love story)
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Let me tell everyone a little bit about my first experiences with a real life Homey. Just unpacked my Homey. Installed it. Experienced many very smart tinkerings by the Athom-team, kudos for those my tech-friends!
Look-and-feel is very, very, very nice and polished. Better than the video's we all saw. Balanced, less-is-more, for first version very KISS, modern, comforting (!), like a warm bath!
Stability/usability Not there yet, but this is rapidly changing. Bugs encountered in the semi-wild are always very different than in the lab. Many (the so-called-expected-unexpected ;-) issues left and right, but a WONDERFUL responsive Athom-company, thinking along and fixing on the fly.
I'm glad I spend the extra money to be first-batch-backer. I do think they still have a lot of work to do (they got lots of feedback from first-batch-backers, and will get so from every batch I imagine), but their speed and energy are amazing! And it's clear they spend a LOT of time in the product so far. They clearly are a bunch of perfectionists.
It strengthens my confidence even more that Homey will be the best Domotica product ever. I think this will be a solid replacement for my VeraEdge (and that's an unerstatement because Vera has SO MANY F****** WEIRD THINGS)...... Thank you Athom.
Questions about details to me are not going to be answered in these public forums, sorry. This because I'll be spending my energy and time in communicating directly with Athom where I have time left to spend on Homey, this will help further polish the product and shorten delivery times possibly.
Questions about experience, feel, progress in general are no problem. I can imagine everyone is VERY curious and desire to know more details, get their own Homey, etc.. For those... Be patient my friends, and maybe find some comfort in this reading material: http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/buddhism/nonatt.htm and http://blavatskytheosophy.com/desire-the-cause-of-all-suffering/
Greetings & a big smile....
Look-and-feel is very, very, very nice and polished. Better than the video's we all saw. Balanced, less-is-more, for first version very KISS, modern, comforting (!), like a warm bath!
Stability/usability Not there yet, but this is rapidly changing. Bugs encountered in the semi-wild are always very different than in the lab. Many (the so-called-expected-unexpected ;-) issues left and right, but a WONDERFUL responsive Athom-company, thinking along and fixing on the fly.
I'm glad I spend the extra money to be first-batch-backer. I do think they still have a lot of work to do (they got lots of feedback from first-batch-backers, and will get so from every batch I imagine), but their speed and energy are amazing! And it's clear they spend a LOT of time in the product so far. They clearly are a bunch of perfectionists.
It strengthens my confidence even more that Homey will be the best Domotica product ever. I think this will be a solid replacement for my VeraEdge (and that's an unerstatement because Vera has SO MANY F****** WEIRD THINGS)...... Thank you Athom.
Questions about details to me are not going to be answered in these public forums, sorry. This because I'll be spending my energy and time in communicating directly with Athom where I have time left to spend on Homey, this will help further polish the product and shorten delivery times possibly.
Questions about experience, feel, progress in general are no problem. I can imagine everyone is VERY curious and desire to know more details, get their own Homey, etc.. For those... Be patient my friends, and maybe find some comfort in this reading material: http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/buddhism/nonatt.htm and http://blavatskytheosophy.com/desire-the-cause-of-all-suffering/
Greetings & a big smile....
Comments
Takes away most of the optimism I had about Athom starting to ship Homeys "as fast as the manufacturer can supply" them, though. I hope I'll be proven wrong...
and it ended with a very content state of mind (for me at least, I'll ask Homey later how it was). Today I'm going to do a bigger set-up with 10+ devices and see how everything goes. If I find glitches, report them to Athom. Then later on scale up 20+ and so on.
Lack of pictures takes away your optimism? I can imagine, but if you look at the big picture, the speed of Athom is amazing, they are very agile. In the whole time perspective, a bunch of weeks extra or less every now and then is not a big issue. As long as they are fast, there is huge progress and they are immediately taking away any glitches the first batch backers find! I for one am confirmed in my confidence every time. :-) I love it when things go they way I want them to go. Happy customer here. :-) So, now I'm going to do the 10+ devices setup, yesterday was only 3 devices and a few flows. Later more!
Replace the cat's collar with a NFC tag. Create a flow ,if cat's NFC tag is close to Homey, play the sound of a barking dog... This all to prevent that the cat think Homey is a toy.
hmmm, z-wave ...... Fibaro......
I'm CTO of a succesful technical company developing, delivering hard- and software myself, and know how tricky it is. We have hundreds of clients, and thousands of end users of our app products. Every time you think something is finished and polished, and you scale up by shipping it to a wider audience, you WILL find new bugs. This is nothing to worry about, this is normal. We've had products running on 1000 devices and number 1001 and 1227 find all new kinds of problems. The smaller the scale (and first batch of Athom is very small), the more glitches you find.
The only thing that matters, is if the company in question can DEAL with the feedback they get and get rid of the glitches found. Athom is very capable, and those people are really smart. I talked to them on a number of occasions, and now I'm also close to them and they show this again and again. I'm convinced, but hey, I'm experiencing it first hand and you haven't experienced this detailed response from Athom. They are doing very well for first test-batch. And speed, nothing to complain: 2 updates/day.
But now back to scaling up in my house. I'm trying to get VeraEdge to release a few of my devices, but it refuses and crashes and reboots... (for comparison by the way, installing new firmware + rebooting Homey until it responds again, is 3x faster than only rebooting a VeraEdge! Very, very nice!)... also, so far stability on Homey seems better than a regular should-be-stabilized-product as VeraEdge... (Of which I'm sick of, and my girlfriend also.) No random reboots so far, no lock-ups, no need to pull the plug. Again, happy customer here.
If you have more overal/general questions, let me know. Detailled, not so much. Too time consuming. :-)
About the adaptor, close, nice try, but it's a 195 watt Dell adaptor. :-))
Thanks for your updates. Are your Fibaro devices up?...have a few of those myself
also when i am reading this forum i can see how often @Emile and @Stefan and all the other from athom spent time to answer questions here. although they are working without sleeping to fix the bugs in homey.
i have a good feeling with this product, with athom and the community.
@jtebbens : Man, you are creepy! :-)
@phil_s : Amen!
@jtebbens : ;-) (((I'm just glad nobody responded to "I tried to pair my cat with Homey", cause that could have been interpreted horribly different than how I meant it.)))