Ok so I have decided that i would do a fresh install of my network and hub. Lately i have had to reboot my hub at least once a week because some apps world not work. The main one is the chromcast intergration but after a reboot the app would be fine for a week until it would stop again.
i decided to try and hunt down the culprit app but not through the lack of trying i just cannot find what is causing it so hence I decided to do a rebuild of my system, The good folks at HE was able to get a hold of a c-5 for me because I already have a c-4 but i decided that I would keep HSM separate from everything else so I'll be running 2 hubs via hubconnect.
RM is just not doing it for me so I also decided to go with Node Red or Webcore, tried and tried node red over this past week and I just can't get my head around it so i chose Webcore because I used it in Smartthings when I was on that nightmarish platform.
Now to the question I went over several posts from users that said Webcore slowed down their hub allot and some said it didn't I just wnat to know so that I can decided if i want to run it on my HE or run it on a PI4 to offload somemore of the work load, also if I run it on HE will the pistons run locally? or will I only get that function if I run it from a PI, any help as always is greatly appriciated. Thx in advance.
I think most of the webcore issues were early on. I haven't seen people mentioning the slowdowns anymore recently. What version of hub software are you running? Running the latest build?
WebCoRE pistons always run locally on the Hubitat hub. Only the web-based webCoRE configuration tool can be run on a RPi instead of on the actual webCoRE web servers.
Yes I just updated to the latest I was on 2.2.1.116 I mean a really old version, but when my hub is running great I get scared to update because sometime the hiccups occur.
Ok so that I’m clear I’m going to use the package manager app to install Webcore so all the pistons will run locally just adding them will be done in the cloud. Only reason I’m asking is if I remember correctly on smartthings if the internet went down non of the pistons worked.
On ST, the ONLY SmartApp that could ever run on the ST hub is the Smart Lighting SmartApp (and only if all of the devices were running locally as well.) All custom code on ST runs in the ST cloud.
On Hubitat, all custom code runs directly on your Hubitat hub. The Hubitat cloud server only provides a method for cloud integrations and remote access to Hubitat dashboards.
Just be aware that with great power (I.e. local processing) comes great responsibility.
It is possible to deploy ill-performing community code on your hub and deplete its resources.
Make regular backups of your hub’s configuration and store them on your desktop/laptop computer as some insurance... if you ever install something that causes issues, Or you accidentally delete some code you’ve worked on...it is nice to have a backup that you can restore.
webCore is an amazing tool. I was impressed with it when I first installed it on ST years ago and I am even more impressed with it on Hubitat.
We are using HE hubs as the basis for commercial and high-end residential deployments. It is nearly impossible to create reusable templates with RM. In my humble opinion, webCore makes HE a far more valuable platform.
