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Indigo securityspy3/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The "SmartApp" model is also very difficult to troubleshoot, as (when my system was up and "running") you might have as many as 40 some smartApps associated with a single device. I used ST for a year or more and found it entirely unreliable and a gigantic PITA to troubleshoot, primarily because there is NO LOG until you TURN ON LOGGING for a device-which is ridiculous because you usually need logs AFTER a problem. But at some point I imagine the convenience trumps the DIY headache.Īny thoughts? Has anyone gone from SmartThings to Indigo, or from Indigo to something else? The landscape keeps on changing so asking this last year is different from asking it now. The problem with the plug n play route offered by SmartThings and others is a) latency - Insteon is very fast, b) it's a series of discrete components instead of a system, and c) cloud centralization. ![]() ![]() Unless some user wants to write a 3rd party plugin for it. To get my Ring Doorbell working with Indigo I have to.oh wait, right, I can't. For example, to get my Alexa working with Indigo, I have to run a plugin that makes Alexa think there's a philips hue hub on the network. Now that things are more and more proprietary with private APIs, I'm finding the DIY route 10x the effort of what plug & play satisfaction people are getting with Wink and SmartThings. Security is via sighthound & securityspy and a bunch of wifi cams. Some z-wave for things like better motion and alarms. I've been rolling my own smarthome for about 6 years now, all based off IndigoDomo on a Mac Mini with Insteon everywhere - light switches, motion, doors. ![]()
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