Man, this guy just would not give up his opinion that Hubitat sucks, and he says I am stupid for using Hubitat, and I should dump my working Hub for HA instead.
I don't think I was being confrontational, until maybe the end. He put me in a position where I had to defend my very use of Hubitat at all. I am done replying. Some people...
I wonder how close the AI estimations about Hubitat finances are that I quoted, but he claims Hubitat is going to go bankrupt and we all will be left with unconnected unsecure hubs once we get left with no way to get updates when the company surely fails.
Kudos to you for handling it with kid gloves. I followed the thread yesterday and was genuinely impressed to see him acknowledge that “Hubitat is pretty easy to set up.” Coming from him, that’s significant progress after years of discouraging everyone to even try Hubitat.
Yeah, totally hear you on that one. However, there are some genuinely civil people on Reddit. This went off the rails, but his first reply saying Hubitat is easy to setup led me to think he really wanted to discuss the platforms civilly. I should have stopped engaging him.
Since has has owned three hubs, I'm not surprised he had an account here. Does his post history show him reaching out for support with all his issues with Hubitat?
When someone has strong opinions about Hubitat Inc’s finances and sometimes even confident-sounding predictions about their inevitable demise, I usually take that as a sign that person is talking out of their ■■■.
Why? Because none of us know the first thing about Hubitat’s finances. They’re a tiny, privately held company.
Doesn’t matter to me what kind of doctor a user might be; they could be a doctor of home automation hubs for all I care. They have essentially zero knowledge of how this company works, just like the rest of us.
Predicting the future is hard. Most of us can’t do it even when we do have relevant information at hand.
For those that think they can do it without access to even the most basic information, good luck with that.
It tells you a lot about his intentions if he trusts the "untrustworthy" system to run in his parents' house. While he is busy luring others away from Hubitat, we will continue to make sure his parents have the best smart home experience using Hubitat in their home.
I most likely got AI to estimate numbers that have no real basis in any facts, but my gut feeling says Hubitat is doing OK, if for no other reason that they are small.
It makes me realize just how much of a niche group we Hubitat users are, in the bigger world of home automation system.
I may be naive but my guess is that if Hubitat were to run up against a financial wall they would reach out to the community for support to maintain the back-end even if sustained development were to stop. There are obviously lots of enthusiasts here with very deep pockets. I'm an unapologetic Hubitat fanboy
I don't have deep pockets, but I would give a bit to keep it going if it came down to that. I have to say, I didn't feel that way about Wink then they threw the subscriptions up to keep the servers going while I was using it. I was on SmartThings like the week after Wink made that announcement.
We’ve all seen the writing on the wall for cloud-dependent systems. That’s why Hubitat was created: to bring home automation back home—and ensure our customers are never forced behind a paywall.
We do offer optional subscriptions for complementary services, but your hub’s core functionality will never depend on them. Even if Hubitat would disappear, your hub will keep working. And thanks to the incredible support of our growing subscriber community, we’re confident Hubitat will be here for years to come.
