mark_anderson_us wrote:Hi Seeker
I'm considering switching form HS to Indigo. I'm mostly z-wave. Would you find sharing your experiences and pros and cons of Indigo vs HS?
Thanks
Mark
I'd love to evangelize!
I have been using Homeseer since about 1999 when it was known as Keware. I have a very low registration number. Great product, but Windows is its worst enemy. HS2 finally became somewhat stable after a ROUGH transition. Never tried HS3, but I do follow the boards on it.
I bought a ton of Radio Shack clearance Z-wave modules at 90% off a couple of years ago. Upgrading to HS Pro/touch was too pricey at the time, so I bought a vera. It got me started with z-wave and works fairly well. Z-wave reliability became an issue with Vera, and I was losing devices every few days. Constant maintenance.
Last summer I bought a mac mini, a z-troller, and Indigo. Indigo is so pleasant to use. It is rock solid. To my knowledge, I've never had a crash.
Z-wave (z-troller) is also amazing with Indigo. I never have to touch it. I have about 30 z-wave devices and it runs flawlessly.
I also use 3 sonos zone players, a DSC alarm, and netatmo weather extensively. I have been able to do anything I have wanted to do very easily.
Cons? I still have to leave my Vera on the network (interfaced using the vera bridge plugin) to control my 4 z-wave locks. this work pretty well, but I don't think all functionality is available to Indigo. Example, notify if a bad pin is entered is not passed to Indigo to my knowledge. But locked/unlocked and battery status are visible.
Not much else negative to add. I'm thrilled mainly because my system just works and I can spend my time doing productive things, not debugging. Just browse the forums. You won't find the level of bugzilla reports that I see on the HS and vera forums.
If you want any other specific experiences, I'll be glad to share!