I think in the long run you'll find the hubs features and functions, the HE community here, and the resulting capabilities much more to your liking over time. I moved from ST a few years ago, and I never really had many problems on ST, must have been on a shard that was less troublesome, but I'm so glad I came over to HE. Just a superior solution w/more options and opportunities across the board for me. I hope you like it as well.
If not, come here and yell at @rlithgow1 - anything that you don't like is his fault.
I already use Wireguard VPN but also set up a free Cloudflare tunnel just to experiment. It seems to work a great. The only cost is that you have to have your own domain. However, local URLs for dashboards don't seem to work so just use the cloud versions.
The Ledvance manufactured lights are zha 1.2. I read somewhere that it was a Silabs chip. They haven’t been problematic for me, but I do have them on a separate mesh.
Yes!! This was one of the very first post I went through, and helped me prepare for the setup. For the time being, I have put these aside for later, when I am feeling adventurous:
Sylvania Bulbs
Zen25 double plugs (they are on firmware ver 1)
HPM and Hub Info Driver are fantastic! I am only at <22% cpu usage peak, observed when I refreshed during a bundle installation; and 2-3% typical 5-min run average. So yeah, one hub is more than capable indeed.
Agreed!
Ouch! That definitely sucks. And yes, being able to take a backup is supercool. And I learnt that folks could migrate devices from C7 to C8 without having to exclude/include again, that feature sounds fantastic!!
I had planned to move to Hubitat by Dec, but the Homebridge plugin kept running, and I kept procrastinating. And when C8 launched with external antennas, I decided to make the change. I only have 30-40% of the automations re-created so far. It has definitely given me a chance to build from clean state, rather than patchwork I did in ST.
Yeah, all z-wave devices are added without security. I saw the thread on Zooz devices as well and kept them all off-security. Locks yes with security, everything else, no.
Even though I run a Raspberry Pi 3B with Homebridge, and pi-hole, I could not figure out the InfluxDB or the VPN setup, at least not at first glance. Something for longer term.
Dashboard and App: Yes, I agree with the sentiment. And from gleaning at the forum posts, it appears most people use third party dashboards, so it has been lower priority. Not an issue for me personally, since I use Homekit for everything (Wife Acceptance Factor), and few ActionTiles dashboards on old tablets.
That said, I would have to add caveats when I recommend Hubitat to everyone I know. There is indeed a bit of learning curve, and it is not a plug n play system for masses, (but then none of the home automation systems are plug n play anyway). It was an easier transition for me since I spent a lot of time on ST tinkering around, and at least a week or two of reading the forums preparing for the switch.
Community here is awesome, that is for sure! I lurked in the ST community but never posted. I felt compelled to thank folks here, especially for continuing where Samsung/ST dropped the ball. (For non-coding folks like me, Home Assistant config files seemed like nightmare fuel.)
I'd also suggest capturing any of the things you stumble through on a topic somewhere, if they haven't been already, for anyone else to make use of. I'll admit I mostly used pimylifeup to originally set some of that stuff up, and InfluxDB and Grafana have remained relatively solid, but I've messed up my WireGuard VPN at some point, but have not been able to figure out how... Not really a major drama for me most of the time...
Just a question about keeping security off....if you left it on and it doesn't seem to be an issue, would you just leave them on until you have issues?
Or do you think it's worth going back and re-pairing with security off. If so, is there an easy way to re-pair things so you do not have to go back and re-add to groups/rules in hubitat and routines set up in Alexa?
When it comes to the zooz 4-in-1 500 series on the c7/c8 it's not if but when. I would re pair that without security. As to s2 security. My personal thought process is that I would re pair anything with it without it simply because of the overhead. Though there are a lot of people with s2 enabled on everything and are fine with their function. I mean as far as "hacking" really, if I'm close enough to sniff your mesh, I'm close enough to look at your house to see what light just turned on... If I want into your house, I'm not gonna try and guess a code (and would unlikely beable to decrypt it because on HE barrier devices require encryption regardless) and I'm gonna wait until you leave and bust a window with a brick that you had in your back yard...
I was going by this summary that if you have only 1 of those, it should be okay. I do not have a second controller, but looks like a good investment for longer term.
Is the reverse possible? ie, use ST hub devices from Hubitat? Using ST hub as another external zwave controller.
With the sylvania bulbs, zooz zen25 double plugs benched, and the looming issues with Monoprice 4-1 sensor, I am considering using the ST hub for these problematic devices there. Otherwise, one of the external z-wave controllers. I just wanted to avoid using more than one hub.
If you do keep your ST hub around/plugged in, note that some folks have had issues joining devices when the ST hub would try to join them w/out being asked. Most recently I saw a post about this related to Zigbee devices.
On the other hand, it's nice to have the ST hub around to act as a Z-Wave excluder when you're doing a device "replace" that is replacing a device on your HE hub w/itself.
It has been about 30 days since I pulled the Plug on SmartThings and installed Hubitat C8. No regrets. Hubitat is a workhorse; it does exactly what I need, reliably and with no bullshit. I am looking forward to additional mainstream integrations (Aladin Connect, Wyze, Ring, Nest, DAKboard), but I can live without them for now!
