Tough subject. To be honest, I understand @Rockhoppers and may be going the same route that he has taken.
I bought Homey for my SmartHOME and not SmartAPARTMENT or SmartFLAT. What I want to say here is that I have a House (not a Villa, Chateau, Mansion, etc) and I seem to be expecting too much from the poor chap.
Now let’s take a look at a HOME shall we? You have at least 2-3 Bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, a laundry room, maybe a home office and a garden. Now my rooms all have 1 motion sensor, 1 Thermostat for the radiators, and a switch for the lights. I have over almost 40 Zwave devices in my house, but do not think FOR A MOMENT that I can get a good mesh network going with homey. I have Tx errors all over the place although there are 4 devices that aren’t even 2 meters away from homey. Strangely THOSE are the ones causing the most trouble.
Now let’s start adding apps shall we? I have Chromecast devices, Philips Hue, RING Doorbell, a house full of Bosch Home Connect devices, and a Tado smart Thermostat (Thank god I have this. At least my presence now works since THAT controls it).
Homey is a damn good concept! I love the fact that my devices are in one place and I can have one device trigger when a totally different device does something. For example: When the Ring Doorbell detects motion and the sun has set, turn on all the lights in front of the house! Or when TADO notices that I am at home, then set my Status to “AT HOME”! Brilliant!
But not all is good in the Homey universe.
To put it simply: I am suffering MISERABLY with Homey.
- Fibaro Devices aren’t running smooth. Some have had Tamer alarms for weeks if not even MONTHS now. Since the update to v2 my dimmers are acting strange and not slowly diming the lights on or off when a flow is triggered
- My Spirit Zwave thermostats aren’t working as they are suppose to. 1) I have the Fibaro Motion Sensors telling the thermostats what the current temperature in the room is but that only works on a couple of thermostats.
- For some reason my Fibaro switches just shut lights off for no reason.
- The BOSCH HOME CONNECT App is about as usefull as wiping your bottom before taking a dump. I have no idea why that was even built since I can’t even turn on my coffee maker in a flow, let alone turn it off.
- As everybody has noticed: Presence detection is a hit or miss. (More miss than hit)
- Flows are great! But have no use whatsoever when a flow is triggered and the communication with the device fails and the flow just kind of “gives up”. Example: When the last person left, and nobody is home -> turn off all devices. I have no idea how many times a light was left on because the flow just broadcast an order for all devices to turn off, but doesn’t really confirm if it has been turned off.
- Fun little thing that I have NEVER got to work: When the battery of a device is less than 5%, then send me a push message saying “the battery in DEVICE_WITH_LOW_BATTERY is low. CHANGE IT!”
- Google Home integration: Ooooooh boy. I have no idea how many times google told me that my Harmony account is not linked. It got so bad that at one point I almost bought a harmony (whatever the hell that is) just to shut google up.
- Now shoot me if I am wrong: But wasn’t homey 2.0 suppose to have some kind of room presence function built in it? I could SWEAR that I read on one of the blogs that they were going to integrate that so we wouldn’t have to have 2394729384 Timers running. Did I miss this function? Is there and I can’t find it?
- Desktop app: WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY THINKING?!? Yes, if you have a SmartAPARTMENT or a SmartFLAT then you probably COULD manage everything with a very Very VERY sexy app (yeah, the new app is sexy!) But a HOUSE?!? Dear god…I dread the day where I have to reset Homey and do ALL my flows all over. And then I saw the app on my iPad. At the risk of repeating myself -> WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY THINKING?!? I mean COME ON, if you are going to make Homey completely APPtastic then put some effort into it. Give me a better experience when I am using the homey app on a tablet and not on a phone!
- No Firmware updates for my devices. (Okay, not really Athoms fault…but a big drawback when using a third party vendor)
And here is the moment where I stand a a crossroad. Finding an alternative for homey really isn’t that simple. We are in the year 2019 and it really isn’t easy to find a unit that does zwave+! Then you have the question of weather or not you can connect ALL your devices to it.
But then on the other hand….would I rather have a system that can do less, but do that perfectly, or do I want a system that can do a lot…but not that good?
Cheers!
I need a device for development …
The blog stated it would be coming after 2.0. - off the top of my head I think it was June’s blog.
You can shoot me in the leg 
