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wienog

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  • Birthday 06/23/1991

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    Home Center 3
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    Transferring from Fibaro to Hubitat

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  1. If you're happy with the HC2 and not a guy who can not go to sleep without having written (and re-written) 300 lines of code every day: stay with your HC2, believe me. I had the HC2 working pretty well before the HC came. I was stupid and wanted the "newest and best". It turned out to be a disaster. I still have my HC3 with one (1) device connected, just to make sure that it is still working and to have a look at the new beta releases for the HC3. All my 100 plus z-wave (plus now also 30 + Zigbee) devices have been migrated to the Hubitat Elevation C7. Heaven on earth if you come from HC3.
  2. Forget Fibaro, buy anything but not Fibaro. You can not trust the company and that simply means it's a company to avoid. There are multiple alternatives and each and every one of them is better than Fibaro.
  3. @A.Socha, @lazer, 1) It's not so much about Zigbee. If you transfer what you say to cars it would sound like this "I'm quite impressed that so many people are asking for gasoline-powered cars. Electric cars are the future." Yes, Matter & Thread might be the future for home automation, or they might not be. Fact is that when I bought two HC3's 18 months ago, I did that because I wanted to include 150 Zigbee spots in my parent's house and 100 spots in my own home into my home automation. 1,5 year later I still can't do what I was promised. So, even when Mr. Socha tells me that in two weeks HC3 will be 100 % Matter-compatible and working, it will make no difference because i lost trust. 2) The fact that potentially game-changing technologies are emerging and will be available at some point in the future is nice. But it doesn't help the thousands of people who never heard of Matter and just bought an expensive HC3 to solve their Hue/Innr/Ikea-lights problem. Without any compensation they saw their cherished HC3 evolve from an enduser-friendly machine into an installer-managed device that lacks most of the promised features. 3) The mere fact that Matter & Thread are discussed in this forum shows that Fibaro has become the domain of professional hard- and software guys, no gullible endusers anymore. For the same reason the forums are so quiet here: the 'professionals' have set up their own server somewhere and discus over there their ideas, problems and solutions. All this while the first intended user doesn't visit the forums anymore because he risks to be ridiculed when asking a question about a "block-scene". Is it Corona ? Is it the Nice-take-over ? Is it just a fundamental lack of respect for the customer ? I don't know. What I do know is that fibaro lost my trust and loyakty and, I fear, the trust and loyalty of many thousands other customers.
  4. I wasn't born yet in the 1980's but be my guest and call it main board or mother board or whatever you want. Doesn't change a thing.
  5. That means Fibaro is a jerk ?
  6. wienog

    Bye

    Don't be to quick to discard the Hubitat. Yes it's UI needs some working on but they have about two or three updates of the firmware each week and with new features and bugfixes, not introducing new bugs. There are several,methods to enhance the app: Action Tiles and Sharp Tools are the most commonly used. That said, I expect Hubitat itself to come with a much improved UI in the near future as they realize all too well that that is their weak point. Big advantage is the very large, friendly, helpful community that gave me good answers (including 'drivers', ) for 99 % of my questions. So now, directly from Hubitat and without any extra code or hardware I control, Samsung smartthings, Honeywell thermostats, Hunter Douglas shades, Logitech Harmony remote, Netatmo etc and , of course, a stable z-wave and zigbee network. On top of that it has something called 'Hub-mesh' that gives you real unlimited coverage of your network by adding Hubitat boxes in different places of your house (and only when you buy the fifth box, you will have spent the same amount of money you spent on your HC3. But hey, i'm not here to market Hubitat. I'm sure you have your own needs and know what you want and don't want. Just to say that it is a huge relief to have a little box that just does what it promised and has a good future in front of it.
  7. wienog

    Bye

    All my respect for the integer and friendly way you say goodbye I must admit frustrations with HC3 have made me sometimes less friendly towards Nice/Fibaro. I think the Nice/Fibaro/Yubii-system now has become a full installer system where the customer is not expected to do much change to the installed system without the help of his installer. I agree with you that having to code something to get what was promised in marketing is a bridge too far and definitely makes the HC3 a bad choice for those who just want to automate their home and don't have coding as a profession or a hobby. I understand your choice for HA and wish you success. I have a few devices left on my HC3 that will be transferred to my Hubitat Elevation C7 in the coming weeks and then I will say goodbye to HC3 also.
  8. Exactly. And that is part of the marketing scam Fibaro lured us with. My whole system is on Hubitat C7 now and the box is about 1/5th the size of HC3, it is even less than 1/5 of the price of the HC3. And, guess what, it has Z-wave and Zigbee and built-in support for 60 % of all z-wave and Zigbee devices while the superb community gives you the drivers for the remaining 40 % of devices for free. ALL of my devices are controlled by Hubitat directly, no use of in-between- hardware or -code. Built-in graphing module where you can graph anything in any kind of graph. Built in 'Rule Machine' that allows you to program anything with simple choices in drop-downlists, even applications I needed 10 pages of LUA for in the HC3. Fibaro is a paper tiger: 90 % of marketing and 10 % of half-working hard- and software that can only entertain programmers who try to make it do the things it promised it would do out of the box. My advice: pick up one of your raspberries in your drawer and start coding. You will have your better HC3 equivalent for much less money. Or buy a real domotics-box that works, every time again, no matter what brand, as long as they don't scam you, take your money and then start erasing the promised features-list on their websites.
  9. On the same Amazonpage they mention 51 5-star reviews and a total score of 3,7/5. When you look up the reviews you find just two (2) 5-star reviews with one line of text. Multiple one-star reviews , one of them very interesting: a German user who got so frustrated that he opened the box to find out that ...it was nearly empty. The motherboard is not bigger than a raspberry. This is really beginning to look as a bad joke.
  10. Newest episode in the Fibaro-soap: On Amazon.nl it is sold for 120 € less (474 €) than before and no mention of 433 Mhz, Zigbee, Bluetooth or whatever. It is sold as a 'Z-wave-controller'. Can't wait to see the next episode.
  11. TO USE OTHER PRODUCTS FROM THE NICE GROUP You need to read this twice to understand what it means. Mr. Socha "doesn't want to say" which products will be supported but then says it anyway : "products from other companies of the NIce group". So, unless Nice buys Aeotec, Phillips, INNr, Ikea, etc...you will see the number of supported devices go down very soon.
  12. Steve, The simple answer is: No. Fibaro HC3 is now more than a year old and still RF and Zigbee and other announced features are not yet working (unless you use complex workaround with extra hard- and software). There is absolutely no knowledge about if or when other protocols that were promised in the slick marketing will be available, if ever. I see you are a newbie: best solution might be, if still available to you, to bring your HC3 back to the seller and ask for your money.
  13. Well, probably it was but now Nice seems to set the future and , to say the very least, that future is not very clear. I decided not to wait until all promised features were fulfilled and changed to an other gateway.
  14. Yubii ! No problem, I didn't change the name, I changed my gateway to the Hubitat Elevation C7: works perfectly with z-wave and Zigbee and Wifi, superb community, self-developed graphs on anything you want and in any shape or form or color you want (all without Grafana or whatever and transfer of data), huge z-wave and Zigbee range. A dream come true.
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