Home Assistant Green

HA Green Works Very Well

After dabbling with HA in VBox environment, I recreated my HA environment on the R-Pi Green and it’s proving to be very stable so far. I’m quite happy with the platform.

Customer service is the best.

Turned out what I ordered was not exactly what i wanted. Customer service fixed it and swapped it no problem. I love doing business with small companies that deliver awesome customer service.

Great upgrade from Vera

I'm probably a low to mid-level home automation user with about 30 z-wave devices around the house. It's all simple stuff like timed lighting and thermostats without any fancy scenes or coding. I've been a very happy Vera user for 15 years and while it still works very reliably, it's slow and some new devices don't configure properly due to its lack of software support. In looking for a new system, my priorities were local control with a user-friendly interface. Hubitat was a big let down with its weak range and rough interface. Home Assistant has been great so far. My guess is that it's where all the earlier Vera users and developers have migrated to. It has the same basic logical design as Vera with a huge amount of user control for customizability. I'd say it's definitely more complicated than I need it to be, but I've been able to ignore a lot of the higher order stuff and make it work pretty easily. I had no problem pairing my devices and quickly setting up all the basic automations that I need. The system is robust, responsive, and I look forward to taking advantage of its other capabilities like linking to other wifi systems. Remote access with Nabu Casa has been good too, albeit not free. However, the subscription pricing is fair and I like that it goes to support developers instead of greedy corporations.