I am currently a Vera edge user and to be honest I am disappointed with it and fed up of the reliability issues. It's just not a consumer product unless you are wanting slightly more than flicking the switch your self.
To make Vera useful you need the pleg plug in. Unless you can be bothered spending hours with lua or luup code.
Pleg is a fair attempt and automating but is clumsy and caused problems.
I've had Vera lite, Fibaro HCL, BeNext and the Vera edge.
All have some good points but all fail at being reliable. BeNext was the fastest but not user friendly.
I've looked at Domoticz and HomeGenie on the pi. I can see potential but can be bothered with all the setup and coding. Plus the wife would never use the mobile apps as they are too geeky. I also don't know how solid they are.
Up until this week I've been testing indigo for the Mac, it's solid, fast and easy to use.
I have a spare Mac and aeon zwave stick.
I thought I'd look at homeseer. It either had to run on the pi2 or be the zee S2 to make sense for me to buy it.
I can't find anything the gives reviews in depth good or bad. I've looked at the product line up but it's hard to judge what I need from it.
I want a fast and reliable system with zwave and sonos.
My Vera is not consistent. At the moment when I'm away from home it's down, don't know why but can't get home to even look. The lights are on but the system is causing havoc. Worked for a week before I left but then off it goes!
Also when it does work I can sometimes get an instant response to a motion sensor and other times I can be in the next room before anything has happened.
I want to be able to set up rules that for example have a motion sensor active and the light level low before turning a light on.
No movement after say 30 minutes and lights go off.
I want to control my heating.
All basics really.
I like the idea of modbus as I have modules I would use but it's no deal breaker.
Does anyone have an honest review?
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To make Vera useful you need the pleg plug in. Unless you can be bothered spending hours with lua or luup code.
Pleg is a fair attempt and automating but is clumsy and caused problems.
I've had Vera lite, Fibaro HCL, BeNext and the Vera edge.
All have some good points but all fail at being reliable. BeNext was the fastest but not user friendly.
I've looked at Domoticz and HomeGenie on the pi. I can see potential but can be bothered with all the setup and coding. Plus the wife would never use the mobile apps as they are too geeky. I also don't know how solid they are.
Up until this week I've been testing indigo for the Mac, it's solid, fast and easy to use.
I have a spare Mac and aeon zwave stick.
I thought I'd look at homeseer. It either had to run on the pi2 or be the zee S2 to make sense for me to buy it.
I can't find anything the gives reviews in depth good or bad. I've looked at the product line up but it's hard to judge what I need from it.
I want a fast and reliable system with zwave and sonos.
My Vera is not consistent. At the moment when I'm away from home it's down, don't know why but can't get home to even look. The lights are on but the system is causing havoc. Worked for a week before I left but then off it goes!
Also when it does work I can sometimes get an instant response to a motion sensor and other times I can be in the next room before anything has happened.
I want to be able to set up rules that for example have a motion sensor active and the light level low before turning a light on.
No movement after say 30 minutes and lights go off.
I want to control my heating.
All basics really.
I like the idea of modbus as I have modules I would use but it's no deal breaker.
Does anyone have an honest review?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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