Hi All,
I wanted to post an update as to what I have been doing here at HomeSeer. First, some sad news that I have to report. My wife Karen passed away in Dec after a long battle with Cancer. Some of you probably knew her as she attended trade shows with us. She handled all the back end work here at HS including accounting and HR. She is missed every day. During the past 2 years my focus had been on taking care of her. While I tried my best to get work done, it was difficult.
I am back working 100% on HS and I totally understand some of the concerns brought forward by some of our long time users. HS has always been dedicated to providing a system that allowed the power user to automate their home in a way that best fits them. Our focus with HS4 was to simplify the system to bring in the less technical user. I think we have achieved that but at the same time the changes have alienated our long time users. I do get it. Also, the changes to development have resulted in less frequent updates and less transparency in regards to what we are working on. Much of this is my fault.
So I want to acknowledge that I hear you and I want to do what I can to make HS4 work for you. To that end I am starting with the following immediately:
* HS3 screens are NOT being removed from HS4. This means that you can access these screens if needed and utilities such as what JON00 have created will continue to work.
* I am compiling a list of requested changes to HS4. I know Randy has a list and there are others. This includes things like compacting the list view, adding more filters, etc. I will post this list once I compile it.
* JON00 is willing to port some of his utilities to HS4 and I will provide any API's that he needs to accomplish that. If anyone else has a utility that does not work with HS4 due to missing API's feel free to post. I would ask that you please post API requests to our Github repository. Posting there sends a message to the developers immediately (on our GLIP channel) and it creates a trackable issue in Github. Link is here:
https://github.com/HomeSeer/Plugin-SDK/issues
* As updates are being added I will post a Beta to the beta forum (similar to what we were doing with HS3). This gives you a chance to try out and test new features/bug fixes without waiting for an update. New (maybe experimental) features will be added to the Labs tab in setup where we can enabled/disable them. This will allow us to try out new things without impacting the released application.
You are welcome to post any change requests to this thread and I would also ask that you please create an issue here:
https://dev.homeseer.com/servicedesk...nation=portals
You can post your ticket ID in this thread and I will turn it into a development request so we can track internally. This way you will get notifications when the item is being worked on and when its completed.
If you have some open issues already that have tickets, feel free to post them here so I can check on the status.
There isn't anything I can do about the past, but I would like to move forward and do what I can to make HS4 work for you!
I wanted to post an update as to what I have been doing here at HomeSeer. First, some sad news that I have to report. My wife Karen passed away in Dec after a long battle with Cancer. Some of you probably knew her as she attended trade shows with us. She handled all the back end work here at HS including accounting and HR. She is missed every day. During the past 2 years my focus had been on taking care of her. While I tried my best to get work done, it was difficult.
I am back working 100% on HS and I totally understand some of the concerns brought forward by some of our long time users. HS has always been dedicated to providing a system that allowed the power user to automate their home in a way that best fits them. Our focus with HS4 was to simplify the system to bring in the less technical user. I think we have achieved that but at the same time the changes have alienated our long time users. I do get it. Also, the changes to development have resulted in less frequent updates and less transparency in regards to what we are working on. Much of this is my fault.
So I want to acknowledge that I hear you and I want to do what I can to make HS4 work for you. To that end I am starting with the following immediately:
* HS3 screens are NOT being removed from HS4. This means that you can access these screens if needed and utilities such as what JON00 have created will continue to work.
* I am compiling a list of requested changes to HS4. I know Randy has a list and there are others. This includes things like compacting the list view, adding more filters, etc. I will post this list once I compile it.
* JON00 is willing to port some of his utilities to HS4 and I will provide any API's that he needs to accomplish that. If anyone else has a utility that does not work with HS4 due to missing API's feel free to post. I would ask that you please post API requests to our Github repository. Posting there sends a message to the developers immediately (on our GLIP channel) and it creates a trackable issue in Github. Link is here:
https://github.com/HomeSeer/Plugin-SDK/issues
* As updates are being added I will post a Beta to the beta forum (similar to what we were doing with HS3). This gives you a chance to try out and test new features/bug fixes without waiting for an update. New (maybe experimental) features will be added to the Labs tab in setup where we can enabled/disable them. This will allow us to try out new things without impacting the released application.
You are welcome to post any change requests to this thread and I would also ask that you please create an issue here:
https://dev.homeseer.com/servicedesk...nation=portals
You can post your ticket ID in this thread and I will turn it into a development request so we can track internally. This way you will get notifications when the item is being worked on and when its completed.
If you have some open issues already that have tickets, feel free to post them here so I can check on the status.
There isn't anything I can do about the past, but I would like to move forward and do what I can to make HS4 work for you!
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