Londonmark wrote:My home automation journey started with my Espresso machine - used to be sitting upstairs working and wanting to switch the machine on. Ditto having it ready first thing in the morning. And once I’d automated the coffee machine (or at least the socket) everything else began to follow. Coffee really is an addictive and expensive habit...
Ps strongly recommend home roasting...
Thanks for sharing!!! =)
Have something in common, my Home Automation Journey began two or three years ago with my coffee maker as well... at the beginning using a Wemo with the iPhone as a remote control. Then added some Lifx (all today in a box) Lighting, then I realized most smart-anything is just an expensive remote controlled gizmo for each brand without a hub, so I bought SmartThings, then added action tiles, then replaced SmartThings with Hubitat Elevation, then tried Home Assistant, went to HomeSeer after that... then Allonis MyServer, and now Indigo with HomeSeer and Hubitat... this has been a very bumpy road for me... it is a shame Indigo has no support for voice assistants or the ability to stream announcements through google Home devices...
Tomorrow will receive an ISY-994i... let’s see what is best, to keep z-waves registered on Indigo or perhaps through ISY to have voice, it will depend on the kindly shared isy plugin... the Insteon Hub (works with HS) also has voice but Indigo only works with serial attached PLMs... So my hopes about a single home automation software is just a pile-of-crap... as of today, three and counting (Hubitat, HomeSeer, Indigo and maybe ISY?) and each one has a big flaw... Hubitat rocks and I think has been n of the best Zigbee support but is not powerful enough on the automation side, HomeSeer is fantastically flexible but it’s interface designer or the mobile app god both are very bad... VERY bad, Allonis has a Fantastic interface builder and is very stable but device support is awful, they either don’t have the capacity or interest to maintain their drivers. Indigo is VERY stable and fast and cool and has a decent interface builder (control pages) if you are already on the Apple ecosystem but even though they offer a paid subscription for remote access, they simply don’t want to support voice integration... text to speech and speech as command is very poor... Not a perfect world... don’t take me wrong, I really like Indigo... the software I’m looking for simply don’t exist
So what began as a lazy coffee automation, today even includes myself building environmental sensors... By the way, I have a roaster, a small Gene Cafe...
Sorry for the overshare but... remembering how it all started...
Cheers!