I was reading about Insteon who was shutting down their platform because of $$$$. I really hope that Hubitat is fine in term of $$$$. They are OK for years to come ? What do you think ?
I think that they’re fine. Haven’t seen any sign to the contrary. Year after year people ask this question, and the answer is pretty much always the same.
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No one know for sure what the future holds but Insteon and Hubitat's business models are very different. Insteon had a very closed proprietary system. Their hub was a bit of a train wreck (or at least it was 6 or so 8 or so years ago when I was using it). And there were very few hubs that supported Insteon products. Developer barrier to entry was also pretty high forcing prospective devs to pony up for a development kit to access their API. Device cost was also ridiculously expensive--every item seemed to cost $50. Compare that to $30-$40 ZWave switches and dimmers, $20 add-on switches, $15 Picos, etc., and it's not too hard to see why they didn't make it.
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AFAIK, the only "hubs" were either from Insteon, or used an Insteon PLM.
Also, Hubitat supports portable tech, so it should be possible to reuse Hubitat-controlled devices by pairing them other other z-wave controllers or zigbee coordinators that support ZHA 1.2.
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Deleted: aaiyar just said the same thing lol
