Given the care taken at installation to avoid Zigbee and Wifi interference I've wondered how wifi and 802.15.4 radios packaged together manage to coexist effectively; evidently there's more to it than channel selection.
As @ogiewon explained earlier in this thread, BT is used during device onboarding, but not after that. Device pairing is performed using a mobile app; ergo it isn't needed by the hub itself - as long as the phone supports BT.
Yes, and there's no way the HE hub is going to match the Wi-Fi performance of my Unifi APs (or most any other Wi-Fi setup that a user is running). Keep the hub/HE staff focused on core HA functionality. That's where they make my heart go thumpy-thumpy.
In addition to remote start (dial has to be pre-set), our LG dual fuel shows the (gas) cooktop status, but mostly it's just a warning now that a burner has been left on. Before they dumbed down the app, it used to show all burners individually.
There's some LG code floating around in a thread but the dev abandoned it and I haven't kept up on it, I think a few users are still messing with it for their washer/dryer.
It would be nice if Hubitat would offer a trade in program, similar to what Amazon offers for old Fire Sticks and Fire Tablets. Give a few dollars for the old device, offer a percentage discount on the new hardware.
Not a bad idea from a business perspective, assuming there is enough margin to accommodate. Should reduce the number of hubs sold on the secondary markets thereby increasing new hub sales.
Once upon a time, Hubitat had a "2nd hub discount" that didn't work on a 3rd or 4th hub. As usual, it had "one discount per" language so you couldn't double up a "this week only" sale with a 2nd hub discount. But I too like the idea of reducing secondary market. Not that I have any vote
I doubt it, but like so many others here, I've bought a POE adapter for each of my hubs. (5) Given the probability that I'd have to pay $ for a Hubitat built in POE compatibility vs buying a POE adapter, I don't mind the POE adapter. In other words, I recognize that having POE built in wouldn't be free. And that EVERYONE would have to pay that increment vs me and my 5 hubs. Nice, yes, require, no. The one thing I do not like about POE adapters is that the power wire is an inch longer than the ethernet wire. It's not Neat Looking
