New ZWave hub - Smartthings, Harmony or Pi+Home assistant

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  • TimJWatts
    Automated Home Jr Member
    • Nov 2013
    • 21

    New ZWave hub - Smartthings, Harmony or Pi+Home assistant

    Hi,

    I have a Fibaro Lite hub which is long in the tooth and not very programmable.
    I also have: Fibaro Dimmer 2, Fibaro 2xswitch modules for lighting, TKB + Aeotech 13A plug switches, Aeotech Gen 5 multisensors and a couple of Fibaro flood sensors.

    I'm looking for a new hub...

    What would you folks recommend? I expect diverse answers, but I'm interested in any nuggets of info like specific problems with a particular platform or particular plus points.

    Many thanks - Tim


    So far, the candidates seem to be:

    Pi + Home Assistant (keeps it local under my control - but is it "wife friendly"?

    Samsung Smarthings - looks polished if all my devices work? (Saw a whine that dimmers broke a while back, eventually fixed)

    And Harmony seems to allude to both participating in an existing ZWave network - but can it also take sole control of devices and be the ZWave master?

    Use cases:

    Must have good iPad and Android app (native or 3rd party)

    Must have website based control (local preferred over portal, but I will consider portal only solutions)

    Should have good scene programming. The Fibaro Lite "block scenes" are very limited and tedious to set up. Equally, whilst I could write everything in perl talking to a RESTful endpoint, I don't really want to get that raw Although plus points for an API endpoint in addition to native competent scenes.
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