If any of you Homeseer admirers would like to pick up a spare HS Pro-100 or Hometroller S4 drop me an IM I have some taking up space on my shelves. I love my Hubitat collection (1-C4, 2-C5s and 2-C7s). I will admit that HS was fun and very reliable - X10 was the limiting factor.
I run mine off a dedicated esxi host. Not sure others on here will be interested since this is Hubitat...
There is lots of people that have good success with Hubitat. Unfortunately, that wasnāt my case.
I can do more with homeseer by calling on custom bash scripts that interface with other things such as my Ford car for locking doors if forgotten to be locked..
I have been using Homeseer for years and have a lot invested in it, code wise. I added a Hubitat about 2 years ago and have been slowly migrating things over to it. I am using an excellent Homeseer plugin that allows me to replicate devices back to Homeseer from Hubitat. I really like taking advantage of both - there is nothing I can't do between one, the other, or both.
The Homeseer plugin runs off Maker API. It would be nice if it could speak to a native app on the hubitat side and allow automatic device creation in hubitat for identified homeseer devices. Unfortunately none of us know groovy well enough to do this. So if anyone is interested in this, let me know. Thanks.
Long time since my Homeseer days - but catch me up if you will. Does Homeseer work with Zigbee now?
Homeseer Zigbee Compatibility List
For what it's worth, looks like they currently list 9 devices on their Zigbee compatibility list.
Edit:
Looks like I should have read the notes at the bottom: Click here for a more comprehensive list and instructions The more comprehensive list has a total of 11 devices currently. 
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Homeseer does not work with Zigbee. They manufacture Z-wave equipment so they have no interest in supporting Zigbee. The only real way to get Zigbee into Homeseer is through Hue, or do what I do - use a Hubitat. Using the Hubitat plugin for homeseer I can replicate everything from Hubitat into Homeseer.
What I want to do is to be able to mirror Homeseer devices into Hubitat. I am slowly migrating to Hubitat but it will take years because of the things I have setup in Homeseer. What this will take is an app on the Hubitat side. Would help a lot of people ease their migration. Thats the theory anyway.
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Looks like the Zigbee support is very low. So for the time being I'll leave my HS Pro100 on the shelf - still collecting dust. Thanks for the info fellows.
Interestingā¦
Why is this even remotely interesting?
No Zwave V2. Zigbee support is almost non-existent. If I was going with a souped-up Pi, I'd go with Home Assistant, a decent zwave v2 stick with the hope that ZwaveJs will support S2 etc in the future, and a decent zigbee radio that fully supports zigbee2mqtt (inplace of the Nortek that the HomeTroller Pi G2 suppots).
lol, I spent too much money (and time) over on that side before. Nickel and dime you to death with the plug-ins necessary to have a complete system.
Literally only supports 10 zigbee items.
Hard pass.
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Not only that, but it still looks from the specs like it's a Raspberry Pi 3B (not even a 3B+ but definitely not a 4, which aside from being faster overall has the option of coming with much more RAM). I'm not sure what they did besides double the storage compared to their original offering, but even that is still an SD card and something I'd be careful to make frequent backups of if I were using this. Unless you want a super-easy route or absolutely need the built-in Z-Wave card (and don't want to DIY it), I think most people would be better suited by just buying a license and running it on their own hardware--but at least with the "G2," they've eliminated the number-of-plugins limitation.
And I thought Vera had lackluster Zigbee support when I tried it. Didn't know there was someone worse (still have a HomeSeer 3 and 4 license around here somewhere if I wanted to try again!). 
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Iām not a zigbee user.
Big change here is the fact youāre not limited to plugins on these small units anymore.
I run mine under a VM and have for a long time with reliability.
Just limited to what your wallet can withstand.
(Sorry, couldn't help myself - I agree that is a good change on homeseer's part)
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Of course, this is a big competitive advantage for Hubitat - the ability to use both zigbee and zwave.
The fact that for the last year or so, they have been upgrading their zwave capabilities does in no way degrade the capabilities of Hubitat in the Zigbee arena.
As Zigbee changes to become Matter (or whatever they call it nowadays), as long as Hubitat "stays in the game", they've made a savvy move to support both protocols.
Letting the market decide which protocol is the "winner" (or co-winner), is a smart move!
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