Wink Automation in Hubitat

You have successfully taken the ‘gateway drug’ for true home automation. :slight_smile:

Most of us here tend to spend WAY more on automation now than we did with Wink, not because we have to, but because of the nearly limitless possibilities and fun you can have.

A few months after I got my Hubitat, I got a Pi and setup Homebridge/HomeKit. Then I set up a PiHole since I already had the Pi... then, anytime I faced a minor annoyance in my house I thought ‘I bet I could automate that...’ and now I have 150 devices.

Hubitat is dangerous, because of how much it empowers you. 1 smart outlet is $30, not too bad... 20 outlets over 2 years adds up, but you won’t realize it till you one day hit a point where you’ve automated all the things. And then the system just works. Then you almost start to miss the process of setting up and tinkering with things... getting excited at the rare times when you think of a new application for automation and get a new smart plug, etc.

This is when you’ll think back to Wink and realize it was a really great interface for turning on and off things from your phone along with some basic automation. That’s when you’ll wonder how you got by with just Wink before you had Hubitat :slight_smile:

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