Hi,
I have a good friend who is an advocate of Indigo and encouraged me to try it out. His big thing was that it has powerful code based logic abilities, an active user forum and is local.
I am a developer so not scared of code, but wanted to keep things simple and ‘mainstream’ (ie off the shelf routines) so that I can take advantage of standard solutions rather than spending time coding (and testing!).
I started using Hue lights with SmartThings hub and although the basics were ‘ok’ and ‘Smart Lighting’ is local I soon found myself using WebCore (Cloud based).
For me the cost of Indigo is not a deciding factor nor the cost of a dedicated Mac. Now that I have coded complicated routine / rules I have the code so it should be easy to replicate ... so should I move to Indigo and why ?
My worry is that Indigo does not appear to have much presence, yes there are a lot of posts here but in the Home Automation community it seems to be all SmartThings, HomeKit and HomeAssistant.
Asking in an Indigo forum .... why should I use Indigo or is Indigo losing the race?