Hi!
I have been having a really bad time with home automation till now, I gotta be honest. Been through a ton of different systems already, and did not really like any of them. Basically, what I need to do is super simple, but everything just falls short one way or another. Therefore I would like to ask you all if HomeSeer can do what I need.
So what I got is a ton of Philips Hue bulbs everywhere in the house, that are currently paired to deCONZ along with a bunch of Xiaomi sensors. Furthermore I have Z-Wave wall switches in the form of Logic Group ZHC5010, Fibaro Dimmer 2 and Fibaro Double Switch 2 depending on my needs for the various locations they are installed. Lastly I have a Qubino 0-10v dimmer I use to control my ventilation system by input from the Xiaomi sensors. All this is currently done in Home Assistant, but I never got the full functionality working. Previously I been through a ton of other platforms like Homey and also just tried Hubitat.
My problem is usually with the lights, where I cannot seem to find a system that handles everything I need. I need the following functionality to be present:
I have been having a really bad time with home automation till now, I gotta be honest. Been through a ton of different systems already, and did not really like any of them. Basically, what I need to do is super simple, but everything just falls short one way or another. Therefore I would like to ask you all if HomeSeer can do what I need.
So what I got is a ton of Philips Hue bulbs everywhere in the house, that are currently paired to deCONZ along with a bunch of Xiaomi sensors. Furthermore I have Z-Wave wall switches in the form of Logic Group ZHC5010, Fibaro Dimmer 2 and Fibaro Double Switch 2 depending on my needs for the various locations they are installed. Lastly I have a Qubino 0-10v dimmer I use to control my ventilation system by input from the Xiaomi sensors. All this is currently done in Home Assistant, but I never got the full functionality working. Previously I been through a ton of other platforms like Homey and also just tried Hubitat.
My problem is usually with the lights, where I cannot seem to find a system that handles everything I need. I need the following functionality to be present:
- Be able to use ZigBee scenes, so that various configurations for each bulb can be stored on the persistent storage of the bulb, and therefore be called by a single ZigBee command. This seems like the only way to avoid the light from flickering around and popcorning, when turning on to another scene than it was turned off at. (This works in deCONZ, but cannot in any way be done in Homey and Hubitat).
- Be able to easily configure my Z-Wave connected wallswitches to turn on/off and brighten/dim my ZigBee bulbs. (This works in Hubitat, where they have a "StartLevelChange" that sends the bulb smoothly towards either 1 or 100% depending on a up/down drop-down. This comes along with a "StopLevelChange" button. These two commands can then easily be assigned to the hold and release events from any given button. This however seems completely impossible to achieve with deCONZ/Home Assistant, Homey, etc.).
- Be able to have my Philips Hue lights and Xiaomi sensors on the same ZigBee mesh, to ensure the little battery-driven sensors have connectivity without the need to fill my house with other useless ZigBee routers.
- Of course be able to set up my ventilation system, so I need the Qubino 0-10v dimmer to work as well.
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