I think you are putting more stock in Homekit & Weave than they deserve. As is, they do not look like a threat to current HA systems, but something to use in tandem...
Thanks for that feedback IndyColtsFan, Im in the same boat after having my wife used to the almost instant SmartThings reaction , she is not happy that we gave up lighting dark rooms in our house when we walked into one as soon as it saw motion the lights would go on and after no motion they would turn off with 99% accuracy. Also the pollong of nodes, the idea behind that is if the light does not actually turn off it would report back the true status. With my Wink hub it will say its off when its actually on and vice versa. Maybe i do have a bad hub or maybe my wireless environment is too noisy for the hub. i really wanted to give Wink a chance. Maybe thennext firmware update or an updated hub with local processing.
Thanks for response RodolfoDLV, that sounds like great news if it really comes out with local control. If yours is 3 to 5 seconds then i must have something wrong cause even today, testing these out i am getting some at 3 to 5 seconds but many at 15 seconds and now any dimmers i have be it plug in or in wall it can turn them on but no longer turns them off
I have numerous emails into support with case scenarios so they can take a look but responses have been slow from support team.
I will hold off a bit to see what Wink brings on, but hopefully the wait won't be too long as i need at least some accuracy in the devices i am controlling now.
Whoa! that is exactly what is happening to me. Zigbee works best with fastest response, as does Hue lights but that is just Wink sending info to Hue. However recently many of my Z-wave devices are sporadic, sometimes they work other times they don't. what bothers me is that if the device is polled properly it should come back to Wink with the actual status being either not on or Off but the wink only thinks it is on or off when opposite. i am convinced there is something with Wink and not specifically my Hub as i was wondering. thanks for your post.
Yeah, the battery in my refrigerator sensor quickly dropped to 77 and then dropped to 66. It stayed at 66 for a few of days and dropped to 55 a couple of days ago. Of course, I am using the ST motion sensor and not the contact sensor so that may also play into it. If accurate, I'm guessing maybe 1 month of battery life which kind of sucks. I'm guessing that maybe being in the refrigerator means a weak signal and it is having to rebroadcast a lot. I ordered a GE Link Hub and am hoping I can pair that with ST and use it as a repeater and place it in the kitchen next to the refrigerator. I may end up trying one of my new Iris contact sensors in the refrigerator for temp measurements and see if I have better luck with the battery.
Also, I have a question regarding GE Link bulbs. Do they function as full-fledged repeaters or only as bulb repeaters (ZLL, if I remember the acronym right)? The reason I ask is that I saw an older thread at ST that claimed they only repeated the Zigbee lighting network and not Zigbee HA. However, I was having problems with my Trippers and dropped a GE bulb between them and the hub and the problems seemed to vanish.
Quiet around here for the past week. I keep checking in hoping to hear something about local control.
Yeah, not much going on with my Wink stuff - been testing SmartThings instead. However, I saw that Meijer may have dropped their clearance prices on Wink stuff again so I may pick up some Outlinks to play with and maybe even a TAPT.
I really like my Tapt switches. Work great with Wink, and they for fine with ST. Unfortunately they don't have the full functionality on ST. Let me know if you pick up one of those Outlinks from the Meijer and hoe it goes with your UPS.
This past weekend, I tried to hook up a Linear Z-Wave switch to control my pool pump, but I just could not get it to work for the life of me. :\ It's supposed to be able to handle 120V up to 20A, which is the same as the switch that it was replacing, but the relay just never did anything (LED indicator stayed unlit). That turned a bit more frustrating when I realized that the original 20A switch's exterior had a piece broken off, so I had to go buy another one. That was compounded when I saw that they were using a double pole switch as a means to hook up another switch to the same line (there are two pool pumps). Technically, double pole switches are for combining two incoming lines to double the amperage, so that's not really the right way to wire it. I used a single pole switch and wired it the correct way.
Anyway, there is something that I'd like to do, which I really wanted to do with the pool pump switch. Does anyone know a good HA-capable temperature probe that I could use with a pool? I assume that this is sort of like the freezer probes that people have been talking about, but I don't have an issue with low temperatures but rather higher IP requirements (IP65 or higher).
Wow... that thing is pretty awesome. I just wish it wasn't $500.I think this was it - doesn't appear to float though.
http://www.zwaveproducts.com/Zwave-...troller.html?IXsid=gftqqp9d3enm7vsqua8prb3bp6
How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on Wink, a platform designed to control, from a single screen, his Internet-connected home devices, such as door locks, window shades and LED lights. He wanted to learn what could be learned from his usage behavior. It turned out it was a little too much.
Earlier this month, at a big data conference in New York, Givre presented his results. By accessing his Wink account, he (or anyone with his login information) could identify his social media accounts, the names of his devices (like “Charles’s iPad) and his network information. An app that monitors his grill’s propane tank recorded the tank’s latitude and longitude, thus revealing the exact location of his house. From his Nest thermostat, he could figure out when his house was occupied and when it was not.