I'm happy to pay an ongoing fee to help expand the resources behind Homeseer's development efforts. And I would encourage everyone to join the call for a new model.
I know, it will cost each of us some more money to use our HS3 systems, but we are all increasingly dependent on the sustained success of this platform for our individual domains, whether Alexa/Homekit, responsive HTML5, APK/iOS mobile, 3rd party app integrations, geo/cameras/locks/network/utility/environmentals, etc. The IoT trend is only in its infancy and it seems to me that the HomeSeer crew needs our help as a collective, to properly support and perhaps shape the future of the HS3 platform. I'm guessing most of us pay for streaming services, cloud storage and the like; each with a similar impact value to different areas of our lives.
HS3 no question has a lot going for it. Stable, reliable, flexible. The team has been working through voice assistant integration in strides (though the documentation is all over the place and hard to tell which is the 'latest' skill build we should be using). Now there's a push to clean up the mobile experience, without trudging through the arcane Touch Designer App, which itself would benefit from a refresh. There's also some great stuff being made ad hoc by the community. Some of the top contributors in the plug-in space could easily shift into co-developers, given extra coding-resources from the HomeSeer Dev Team to implement, debug, iterate, extend. That would take some of the pressure off the individuals who generously contribute to solving problems while making sure the end result is thoroughly vetted and included as part of the upgrade rollouts.
Most of us are okay with tinkering, troubleshooting, etc. to get where we want, but it seems inconsistent with modern development cycles to have to chase so many fundamentals to have a clean, working system that seamlessly accommodates a smarthome user. I'm certain much of this is a resource issue - not a reliable enough income stream to sustain a deeper roadmap of features and functions in a predictable and evolutionary way. The team at HomeSeer is doing an admirable job with they have, while we all clamor for more.
I can only hope that there are lots of people on these forums who would contribute some recurring spend to the HomeSeer team to increase their capacity to do great things. I'm not sure how we elevate this to a site-wide question or opportunity, or how many paid owners are already using HS3. But if only 30% of the 4,200 active users on this forum were willing to pay $10/mos/user, we could fund one or more full-time staff and have some room for contract Dev time and resources to help move things along.
Please help make this a reality. I realize no one 'wants' to increase their costs, but fundamentally, HS3 should be prioritized in your annual expenses, to help make it the defacto solution, that looks and works the way you always envisioned.
Cheers, Matt
I know, it will cost each of us some more money to use our HS3 systems, but we are all increasingly dependent on the sustained success of this platform for our individual domains, whether Alexa/Homekit, responsive HTML5, APK/iOS mobile, 3rd party app integrations, geo/cameras/locks/network/utility/environmentals, etc. The IoT trend is only in its infancy and it seems to me that the HomeSeer crew needs our help as a collective, to properly support and perhaps shape the future of the HS3 platform. I'm guessing most of us pay for streaming services, cloud storage and the like; each with a similar impact value to different areas of our lives.
HS3 no question has a lot going for it. Stable, reliable, flexible. The team has been working through voice assistant integration in strides (though the documentation is all over the place and hard to tell which is the 'latest' skill build we should be using). Now there's a push to clean up the mobile experience, without trudging through the arcane Touch Designer App, which itself would benefit from a refresh. There's also some great stuff being made ad hoc by the community. Some of the top contributors in the plug-in space could easily shift into co-developers, given extra coding-resources from the HomeSeer Dev Team to implement, debug, iterate, extend. That would take some of the pressure off the individuals who generously contribute to solving problems while making sure the end result is thoroughly vetted and included as part of the upgrade rollouts.
Most of us are okay with tinkering, troubleshooting, etc. to get where we want, but it seems inconsistent with modern development cycles to have to chase so many fundamentals to have a clean, working system that seamlessly accommodates a smarthome user. I'm certain much of this is a resource issue - not a reliable enough income stream to sustain a deeper roadmap of features and functions in a predictable and evolutionary way. The team at HomeSeer is doing an admirable job with they have, while we all clamor for more.
I can only hope that there are lots of people on these forums who would contribute some recurring spend to the HomeSeer team to increase their capacity to do great things. I'm not sure how we elevate this to a site-wide question or opportunity, or how many paid owners are already using HS3. But if only 30% of the 4,200 active users on this forum were willing to pay $10/mos/user, we could fund one or more full-time staff and have some room for contract Dev time and resources to help move things along.
Please help make this a reality. I realize no one 'wants' to increase their costs, but fundamentally, HS3 should be prioritized in your annual expenses, to help make it the defacto solution, that looks and works the way you always envisioned.
Cheers, Matt
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