Topolino wrote:I decided to give Indigo a chance after they decided to move to a subscription model in the hope that things would improve here. After almost a year, I see absolutely no indication of faster development pace or richer features.
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My question to this forum is if you have any experience with Home Assistant versus Indigo, and if you see any reason at all not to make the switch.
@DaveL17 addressed the first statement very well -
this post really illustrates how we've done so far and where we'd like to go.
For the last question, I think other posters have done a good job: consistency, stability and support are things that you are guaranteed when you purchase Indigo. They are much more hit-or-miss with open source. If those things are less important to you, then an open source solution might very well be the better way to go, that's something you'll have to decide.
johnfdl wrote:While I don't tinker often, I do occasionally look for new gadgets that I can integrate (or new integrations for existing gadgets. This forum helps with that, but I'd love to see more on the 'art of the possible'. A forum is great for deep dives on that stuff, but I think this site could benefit from showcasing certain features or set-ups in more blog-style form (rather than discussion forum). Sort of curating stuff out of forums to bring to the masses. For example, I added the PiBeacon presence sensor....but it did take a bit of tinkering to get it working (and working well). I am not a coder so it was not easy for me. But that feature makes a huge improvement in my previous set up. Condensing the forums on that into a feature presentation on the use cases, features and functions could bring a lot more people. Anyway, just my two cents.
We actually agree. We redesigned the
Compatible Devices app on the website to help (somewhat) with this issue by integrating devices that plugins in the store support. That should more fully illustrate the kinds of things that Indigo can integrate.
But we realize that there is also a place for long format write-ups as well. The problem really is that we (Matt and I) often don't use these solutions, so trying to write a blog post or a use-case wouldn't be practical for either of us. What would be very helpful for our user community that aren't super technical would be to have them contribute this sort of content to the community. I bet we have some great writers out there that could write up some nice "guides" to accomplishing some tasks. We opened up the Wiki to other users hoping to get people involved in writing up things like that but have had virtually no uptake.
So I'll throw this out there again: if you developed a solution and would like to write it up for public consumption, contact us (support AT indigodomo DOT com) and we'll work with you to get it up somewhere. We have the wiki and the blogs (we would welcome guest blogs like this), either of which could easily handle a nice how-to solution guide with images. We'll figure out how to get it into the right place - we just need the content.