I have been a long time Vera/Ezlo owner that has very recently made the switch and couldn't be happier I think I originally bought my vera lite almost 12 years ago. (Loved that device). Eventually graduated to the Vera Plus my vera lite got relegated to my winter residence in Mexico. Eventually when that support came to an end I upgraded it to another vera plus. For years vera had been messing with my motion sensors. Tripping when nothing was there, not tripping when something is there and sucking batteries like crazy even though I had the LEDs off (Zooz zse40) I was going through a every other week.
Finally i saw the Ezlo hub and figured its been out for about 18 months it HAS to be ready for prime time right? I couldn't have been farther from the truth. I was interested in the virtual devices via the google ecosystem (I have LG mini splits id love to control via my hub) I thought win/win
What a poor device the ezlo hub is. I have a 750 sq/ft condo in Mexico it hardly large but is concrete i already know how troublesome that can be for wireless signals i had devices 15ish feet away through a concrete floor that I couldn't see or control. To pair i powered the vera with my phone and did hotspot for internet added the devices however after i added the zwave switches for my AC units (aeotec heavy duty switches) the hub would freak out (switches were on the support list) but it wouldn't even allow me to exclude or pair anything else. I did zwave repairs etc to no avail. I thought I might be coverage so I bought a couple extenders nothing helped everytime I'd start to add out door stuff the hub would go unresponsive and loose control of device that previously worked.
Tons of work with support for about 6 weeks they might get stuff ok for a couple hours then it'd fall apart. I honest feel bad for their support that they have to support such a trashy product. If it was a beta device id cut some slack but it wasn't.
I had a choice either migrate back to the vera plus which was ok but Vera/Ezlo said support is coming to an end or to switch to something different. A couple years ago (2019) I was pissed at vera for something else and bought a bunch of new devices to see where id migrate too. I tried a smart things but didn't care for it. I tried a HE C5 but really I didn't give it a fair shake and it was relegated to being in a drawer. It came back out this week and the zwave coverage is soooooo good. I only had to move 3 zwave devices closer for peering everything else was awesome. Soon as i was paired I moved them back to their home and they're awesome. Still tons to learn on the new platform I have the aeotec home energy monitor I have to figure out if i can get this into grafana or similar. Also need to figure out notifications so far they don't seem to work (Chalking that up to being a n00b on the platform)
So happy with the fast switching and way better bettery management on my motion sensors no false alerts.
Has anyone got their HE to send alerts via a Slack webhook? That would completely fix my issue...
Anyways glad to be here and hope to be here for a long time.