I can empathize with your sentiments, although I don't think I ever reached the level of frustration with Hubitat that I reached with Wink, Vera, and Home Assistant.
On the plus side, I really haven't messed with most of my existing automations now for ~1 year, although I did add a new zigbee coordinator for most of my zigbee devices about 6 months ago. My automations just work. These days when I purchase something new, most often it is to find out if it works better than what I already have in place, or because I'm curious.
I'm with you @aaiyar! Very stable base system except I keep adding stuff and messing around.
Although to your point am much more experienced about what I can get away with and how to recover should things go "pear shaped". I feel I have a good handle on most of the quirks & issues these days and if not - this wonderful community is here.
i enjoy HE as it's a nice middle ground. it's simple enough to make complex things happen, but not as complicated as HA where i need to make it a full time job to make it function
I just saw a Facebook posting from someone showing a weather radar picture on his Dashboard.
Do I really need a weather radar? I am so oblivious to the weather that I will literally walk out of my car in overcast weather, knowing that I did not take my umbrella with me, only to be rained on later when I try to get to my car in an uncovered parking lot. As in, this happens to me multiple times.
And yet, radars are cool. I'm going to get that for my Dashboard. I have no need for it, but just because it looks cool, I'm going to figure out how to do that. Because g*ddammit! Radar!
On another note, if Hubitat is like being married, then maybe Alexa is sort of like the illegitimate mistress that causes her own share of problems. Wives and girlfriends don't get along...
Or just the opposite - you could do what you want with impunity and probably have the funds to make it happen! Who cares if it's overly complicated or technical - no WAF/PAF to tell you no! The sky's the limit!!
My wife tends to be slow to adopt changes in home automation routines. I recently disengaged the Alexa Hue app to import all of my Hue scenes through CoCoHue. Now Alexa doesn't control the Philips bulbs properly and she lets me know it....
At the end of the day making your life better/easier/more streamlined seems to be the key. If you've done your job well then most things will appear boring or invisible.
My den lights are all Sengled Color+ and I can turn them different colors with Alexa. Cool looking but utterly useless for our situation. I'm much happier that my bathroom fan comes on when a certain humidity level is exceeded.
My bathrooms are doing that, too! Woo-hoo! Also, everyone else in my household has an annoying tendency to leave lights on in bathrooms. Very annoying especially when it's upstairs. For a while I would just tell Alexa to turn them off. Then I created an automatic turn off routine in Hubitat. Now I have sensors that turn them off when no motion is detected. So that is definitely cool!
Of course, I probably could have just told them they need to do a better job turning off lights when they aren't using a room. But... Hubitat listens to me more often than family members.
You can actually have most of the data go to node red via UDP then into Hubitat so that your weather station is completely local not relying on their servers or your internet to be up if you have automations relying on real time info coming in. There are a few of the stations attributes I still use his integration for that aren't needed for up to the minute necessary of being local.
