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What changed your view on HA? I was about to get started with it...
by benparsons 7y ago
What changed your view on HA? I was about to get started with it...
- __sy__ 7y agoMaybe go read the source code. It's... messy :) UX/UI is also really not the greatest.
- robbiet480 7y agoWhat makes you think it's messy?
- input_sh 7y agoIf you're fine with dealing with breaking changes every few updates, you're good to go. If not, you should probably wait until v1.
- enobrev 7y agoI've had a couple upgrades over the years that cost me days of time to get my automations caught up or where I had to re-add my (50+) devices to get things working properly. Also I used to get miserably slow start up times waiting for ZWave to initialize, which I'm not seeing on zwave2mqtt. My guess was the interaction between HA and OpenZwave. This may have been fixed by now. I've been off for about 6 months. HA is moving fast and breaking things and I don't blame them because it's an excellent tool and they're trying to get it "right". But automating my home is a small hobby for me and I don't have the time to keep up with the changes. I've found using zwave2mqtt and plain old JavaScript has been plenty for me. It's fast, stable, and completely customized to my needs. I haven't put together an automation ui or anything, but I'd much rather just write my automations in JS over using yaml or dragging things around with Node-Red.