I’ve been in my home for about 4 years now. It’s safe to say that over those 4 years, everything has gone to pot and now my smart home doesn’t work.

Everything is running through my network of Amazon Alexa’s. I have mostly Philips Hue bulbs with a few GE switches and Samsung Sensors connected through Samsung SmartThings. August Smart Locks. A few other odds and ends.

I’m to the point now where nothing in my Apple Home Kit shows as online anymore. None of my timed or sensor based automations work now.

I’m sure this is normal…right? Has this been your experience that everything slowly stops working? Any tips to keep things alive and fresh? Is the only solution to delete everything and start over?

  • ninjersteve@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Experience with home assistant is not this. Everything runs great with extremely limited maintenance many years later for me. YMMV I guess.

    • Thestrongestzero@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Same here. I have hundreds of devices. So far homeassistant has been reliable as hell. Especially compared to cloud based shit

    • The_Marine_Biologist@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You’re spot on. Home assistant and cloudless devices is the only way to build a smarthome, anything else will eventually stop working as cloud services are shutdown.

      • No_Picture_1212@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I’ve been building up my home assistant system and trying to stick with cloudless as much as I can because of this. Curious how often the small devices like sensors or other hardwired items need to get replaced for you? Or have they all lasted quite well? Wiring everything isnt feasible for me at my current residence but I’ve been trying to hardwired everything within reason to make everything more stable/hopefully last longer.

          • No_Picture_1212@alien.topBEnglish
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            11 months ago

            That’s good to know! I got myself a bunch of zigbee battery sensors for temp and humidity too so that gives me some piece of mind. Have had a few go offline over the past few weeks but restarting always solved it. I’m still waiting for a proper zigbee dongle though and am currently using the Aqara hub with their sensors.

    • DjJelloShot@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Honestly, I haven’t don’t much research in recent years and this is the first I’ve heard of Home Assistant. What is there to know about it? And significant differences to setting it up?