Hi, I just became aware of Hubitat after 2 years of being a SmartThings user. So far I've been very impressed. The recent notice that SmartThings will no longer support Echo Speaks and the end of support for the classic app has me thinking of switching. But I have a couple of quick questions I…

[image] dman2306: mean it’s been retracted I saw a comment by staff (think it was Bruce :thinking: ) saying that they don't have the issues they had in the past and it's not a issue anymore due to the work @nh.schottfam has done. This was no more than a week ago. Now it's just the same as all…

Wow! Thank you all for your incredibly helpful and fast responses. It seems what I read about the Hubitat community being great is very true. My setup isn't really very impressive compared to what I've been reading about in the community. Only 40 devices (mostly zigbee smart bulbs and smart plu…

Side note: Be very proactive when you're considering your smart Bulbs. There are a lot of issues with Zigbee bulbs and building a good mesh, specifically when bulbs are attached direct to the Hubitat hub, and not on a Hue or other hub. There are several threads on Zigbee meshes and Hubitat. Good…

Thank you for your note. I had issues with the zigbee bulbs early with ST. I solved it by strategic placement of the zigbee smart plugs. Do you think if I have a working mesh now that it could be a problem with Hubitat?

[image] michael.swank: Do you think if I have a working mesh now that You're going to be disassembling your existing Mesh and building a new one. There's little chance it will build exactly the same. You will be removing devices from the old mesh, eventually making it so unstable it's not wor…

If you want to have the best possible results I think you can get that by doing the whole changeover in one day. Begin with your powered devices closest to your hub and working out, and when you have all them in place then start adding the bulbs in the same order. If you try to do sort of a half and…

I stand corrected, @aaiyar pointed me to this: [image] Rule Machine - disable lines Feature Requests Users had issues with it two years ago. AFAIK it has been greatly improved since then. We don't "frown on its use". Don't be sorry -- it has a much better UI. Sou…

[image] dman2306: Sounds like the official stance has changed. We don't have official stances. :sunglasses: Heck we don't have any officials...

@danabw - Great feedback. Thank you!! This is similar to what I imagined I'd have to do. This is a great excuse to have kid 1.0, kid 2.0, and kid 3.0 do my chores one weekend day. :wink: @all - One other question: As I've continued to research I think I have read that there is no longer out o…

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I stand corrected, @aaiyar pointed me to this:

Sounds like the official stance has changed.