Switched from Wink to Hubitat

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When wink had their last major outage I ordered a Hubitat. But just after I got it wink came back on line and I didn't want to hassle with it even though wink had a subscription fee and Hubitat's was optional. So after Wink was out for 5 days this time i decided to take my Hubitat out of the box and switch over. Initially, I had a problem because its status light stayed blue and never turn green. thus i could not connect to it. Once I changed my router to reserve an IP address and rebooted my router I was able to communicate with it and set it up. The setup and switching over was much easier than i expected. Since Wink's servers were down i could not go into exclusion mode. I was able to use Hubitat's exclusion mode to switch each device over one at a time. it only took a 1-2 mins for each device. re-creating the automatic on/off of my lights was a breeze. OMG I can't believe I didn't switch over before. Much nicer and Free. I also really like that all the automation and info resides locally. I'm very impressed. Works great.

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Wink refugee from two years ago and haven't looked back. You will be very happy you finally made the jump!

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Thanks. It's been 2 days and I'm already super happy about the move.

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Look at these rules of thumb too

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Wink -> ST -> Hubitat refugee here. Third time's a charm. My setup still has cloud dependencies (alexa mostly) but boy am I ever happier.

Some good reading, even if you came from another zwave or zigbee platform:

https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=How_to_Build_a_Solid_Zigbee_Mesh

https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=How_to_Build_a_Solid_Z-Wave_Mesh

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I did use the Hubitat for exclusion but only after realizing i couldn't use Wink which got me thinking that it didn't matter what device sent the exclusion signal/command. I did not know about the z wave stack setting.
thanks

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Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.

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Be sure to check your z-wave details page for ghosts

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Concerns about the size of Hubitat Elevation

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Concerns about the size of Hubitat Elevation

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Please check your z-wave page in settings and check to see if there is a update firmware button. If so please do that

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Same situation here. Except I don't think this is an extended outage. Their entire DNS is down, which indicates to me that they have "left the building". I got no notice of this happening, and the icing on the cake, was that while the company appears to have packed up, they STILL BILLED ME for July-August 2022.

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Dispute the charge..

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Yes, dispute the charge WITH YOUR CREDIT CARD ISSUER.