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Don't lock it. I'm glad to see you figured it out. But how about a little walkthrough/write-up of your system and what you're using?
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I STARTED my home automation journey with the "SmartThings by ADT" system. The hub was built inside of a wallmount touchscreen. 95% of the sensors were a proprietary standard. I bought a LOT of sensors. I bought a LOT of ones from Lowes on clearance. I had all the automations set up. I had all the sensors mounted. I was happy. Then, I came home one day, and saw a message on the touchscreen:
"Thank you for buying all this proprietary crap. The Smartthings by ADT partnership is ending. the system will brick itself in 2 months. there's 2 things you can do about it: NOTHING and LIKE IT. Thanks". (Paraphrasing).
So, I was pissed. I have then watched the Smartthings gen 1 hub, VREA (?), Revolv, Lowe's "IRIS" system, and Insteon get bricked.
Then, I looked at my smartphone. I had, like, 8 home automation apps. (garage door control thermostats, voice assistants, fitbits....)
I started with a raspberry Pi, then upgraded to a NUC-like PC to run Home Assistant [HA]. I use a USB dongle to add Zigbee and ZWave connectivity from HA to my devices.
First fire-up of HA was fairly simple. I added it to my wifi, and it immediately found a BUNCH of devices. (All wifi devices.) I then updated the USB dongle. It found all the zwave devices. I had to reset all the zigbee devices so the HA system would find it.
Once all the devices are added, you can make a "launch screen". I use mine on a touchscreen.
You can make automations with fairly straightforward, "If this, then do_______".
HA works locally. so, no bricking or servers to go down. Yes, your regular cloud-based things still need the internet. My in-house automations (If the roku presses play while watching a movie on the local NAS, then dim the living room lights) continues to work.
Why use it? I COULD go buy an amazon hub, amazon panel Amazon plugs, etc. Amazon decides to brick their stuff? You are SOL.
An example of what my system does? I can say, "Alexa, turn on the PATIO LIGHTS". Alexa hears me, goes thru the cloud, connects to my NUC-like PC, sees a zwave outdoor module called "Patio lights", tells the NUC running HA to change the state of the zwave switch from off to on. It enables different ecosystems to talk to each other.
Where does it fall short? Well, see the original post. Some of the developers and documentation are written by know-it-all basement dwelling coders that are not helpful, that will just tell you, "The answer is there. Read it again." Sometimes the best way to get an answer is to post a question, log out, login with a NEW account, and post the completely wrong answer/solution is a haughty tone. The basement dwellers will log in, and explain WHY they're wrong.
(I'll post more when I get home).