HS4 upgrade Easytrigger regrets?

[kenm]

I too have been using EasyTrigger on HS4 for over 10 months with no issues. As far as I can tell, the internals of HS3/4 plugins are the same. It's the configuration pages that need significant changes for HS4. I use several HS3 "Legacy" plugins on HS4, including HST's Z-Wave plugin. I did have a really old plugin that didn't support the parent/child (HS3) or root/feature (HS4) method of creating devices and that did generate some log warning messages. I finally dumped that plugin.

Hope this helps,
Ken

[Wade]

Plus the weather plugin situation looks better on HS4.

This was what finally got me to upgrade.

[dmiller]

I use easytrigger pretty extensively. I don't recall any problems with the upgrade. Is there something specific you're concerned about? Maybe I'm forgetting something I had to fix? (It's been a while.)

When I moved machines on HS3 my easytrigger triggers lost some of the values. I don't know what happened. I spent many hours reconstructing those events.

I'm in fairly good shape to move as I've paired down complicated logic that wasn't particularly useful in daily use. But I still have a large system so I'm generally concerned about the whole thing breaking on the upgrade.

I also haven't kept up on why there is no easytrigger HS4 version. Or if most people are generally satisfied with HS4. My primary reason for upgrading now is that z-wave versioning seems to be frozen on HS3. Plus the weather plugin situation looks better on HS4.

Without stability in z-wave and easytrigger I may as well be on Home Assistant. I would love to use the HA homekit integration on devices like Ecobee.

[Ronnie]

I just upgraded to HS4 this week and all of my easytrigger events are working fine. I used the Alternate Method instructions (Creating a HS4 directory instead of overwriting the HS3 directory). The only thing I did not copy over before I started HS4 was my custom icons that were setup in HS3. When I started HS4, the custom icons were not in the file so it used the default. I just had to copy that directory over to HS4 and re-do all of my icons. I don't know if it would have populated the icons if the directory was there.

Hope this helps,

Ronnie

[Wade]

I use easytrigger pretty extensively. I don't recall any problems with the upgrade. Is there something specific you're concerned about? Maybe I'm forgetting something I had to fix? (It's been a while.)

[dmiller]

Anyone upgrade to HS4 and regret the decision based on easytrigger problems? I've been putting off the upgrade, largely for concerns about having to rebuild a lot of events with easytrigger triggers. What was your experience moving from HS3 to 4? Thanks.