I am sick and tired of Hubitat failing, crashing, trashing the database, not being able to connect to known devices, and the crappy UI. Tried the new iOS app, could not connect to my hub- rebooted my hub, hard reset.... still ... nothing.
I have brought up Home Assistant on a Raspberry PI 4, it works better, is able to connect to all my devices, and the UI looks like it was designed sometime in this century. It also processes everything locally.
So, I was trying to figure out what I should do with my Hubitat hub... See photo.
Hubitat is a horrible product. Nice idea, horrible execution.
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I'm sorry you've had issues with your hub, especially because you've made such outstanding efforts to use the community to resolve the issues you've apparently encountered:
As you know, from being here 2 years or more, that you're describing a rather unusual set of symptoms. This community does not have every person that ever bought a Hubitat hub, but the population is large enough to tease out statistical anomalies.
I have 5 hubs online at this moment and none of them have experienced even one of those symptoms in recent timeframe. I'm certain my use is far different from yours as a result. For example, I've never installed or used any the iOS app (I don't have an Android) and I use the UI very rarely anymore. After 5 years, my automation is as complete as 2024 offers. On the other hand, a DB corruption is something I haven't seen this year at least.. across 5 hubs.
I hope you enjoy your Home Assistant journey. I've had an Instance up for several years and can't find a use for it. I have 2-3 Zwave devices connected and that was more than enough work for me. It runs forever though.
Oh this is not my first set of problems with Hubitat. My first device showed up DOA. It took me weeks to get hubitat support to ack that the problem was with the device. I used the community to help convince support to take a look. The new device showed up and kinda worked, but would not connect to various devices within this house. I just gave up on trying to get it to work and we were not living in this house for about a year. Finally got around to seeing if I could revive hubitat. I updated the hub, etc. moved around the UI and just got fed up with the look and feel, and then it just stopped working and threw an error that was the db was trash. The hub was connected to 2 devices.
I have used many different home automation systems over the last five years. I put them in my houses to mainly to monitor for water leaks, and control the water main shutoff valve. This use case is best for a hub based system as the latency of going out to the cloud and invoking an AWS landa to figure out what should happen (ie: Smartthings) is not acceptable. Hence why I tried habitat.
So far Home Assistant is connected 20 different devices without a hitch. I have not had to touch any YAML yet- beside it is not that bad if you are fairly technical.
So,
1/ the dog had the hub for just a minute for the photo op.
2/ I refuse to put the hub on eBay or sell to any poor unsuspecting soul as to spare them the frustration of this crap.
3/ I will pay to re-cycle the hub.
4/ I did use the community a few years ago, and hubitat support, IMHO, was a joke.
5/ the UI is uglier than my dog’s you know what.
6/ good luck.
Perhaps Hubitat isn't the right hub for you. UI's tend to spring from one person's view, often a programmer With 8 billion people on the planet, it's not at all surprising that all minds don't see a UI the same way.
You could sell the hub to souls here, as the vast majority aren't frustrated by it. Just make a Lounge post and see if it takes more than a day to find a good home.
