A year and a couple months ago I decided to buy a Smartthings ADT Hub. The ADT support was ending, but it was on sale, and I needed a zwave hub to use the Homeseer switches that I was set on getting, along with my zwave schlage door lock. I got a few things working with plans to do more later. Even bought an extra hub for my office to use later.
Fast forward to today when I find out that Samsung is discontinuing support and bricking the ADT Hubs. They were first released in 2017. Not a very long life span. Starting next month I will have no zwave support, and a bunch of bricked sensors.
Main question is: How long have people owned their homeseer z wave hubs? Are there any discontinued hubs? Do the discontinued hubs still work? Why do people upgrade their homeseer hubs? Better and faster, or are some forced to upgrade. Are there other Z wave hubs that people here are using?
How is the alexa integration with homeseer hubs, and also integration with the z-wave schlage connect lock? I expect that it would be easier to do routines with the homeseer light switches at least. It took a lot of work to get them to work with smartthings (at one point double tapping turned on all the lights at once). A few months ago that stopped working though, might have something to do with them completely retiring to old smartthings app.
I actually just spent a number of hours yesterday to set up a routine to use a soon to be defunct ADT sensor to do an alexa routine. Worked great. I also set up the switches to run with voice commands and integrate with alexa. Worked great again. Next month nothing will work at all. My blank face of disappointment can not be overexaggerated.
Fast forward to today when I find out that Samsung is discontinuing support and bricking the ADT Hubs. They were first released in 2017. Not a very long life span. Starting next month I will have no zwave support, and a bunch of bricked sensors.
Main question is: How long have people owned their homeseer z wave hubs? Are there any discontinued hubs? Do the discontinued hubs still work? Why do people upgrade their homeseer hubs? Better and faster, or are some forced to upgrade. Are there other Z wave hubs that people here are using?
How is the alexa integration with homeseer hubs, and also integration with the z-wave schlage connect lock? I expect that it would be easier to do routines with the homeseer light switches at least. It took a lot of work to get them to work with smartthings (at one point double tapping turned on all the lights at once). A few months ago that stopped working though, might have something to do with them completely retiring to old smartthings app.
I actually just spent a number of hours yesterday to set up a routine to use a soon to be defunct ADT sensor to do an alexa routine. Worked great. I also set up the switches to run with voice commands and integrate with alexa. Worked great again. Next month nothing will work at all. My blank face of disappointment can not be overexaggerated.
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