• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Exactly, I have been using some of the same zwave devices for over 10 years. I don’t buy anything that needs the Internet unless I don’t have a choice and that device is not mission critical. I build many of my devices with esp home also.

    • obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 months ago

      For now, hubitat seems to be a good balance between slowly improving the support and experience vs. price paid. I opted in for their subscription that does automatic backups with recovery to a different device and managed remote access and I’m satisfied with the value received for the subscription fee.

      I doubt this will last; if they get successful enough, somebody will buy them like the Samsung / Smartthings scenario and the enshittification will begin (or accelerate, depending on your opinion of the status quo).

      Hopefully by then homeseer has a robust hardware ecosystem and migrating isn’t very painful.

      And the author is right, no need to touch Matter at this point if you’re already vested in Z-Wave or ZigBee.