Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus
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I still have the "prototype" Ezlo plus in a box somewhere, any chance of "nuking" it like the Vera Plus? Zigbee and Z-wave 700 chip could be useful..
@toggledbits, the only reason I use Z-wave JS UI into HASS is that i use the HASS visualization on phones and UI panels, that would have to be replaced by helpers/virtuals if I were to take it into MSR instead?
I could offcourse feed both MSR and HASS from JS UI, but that seems like a bit of a waste of bandwidth? dunno..@perh said in Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus:
I still have the "prototype" Ezlo plus in a box somewhere, any chance of "nuking" it like the Vera Plus? Zigbee and Z-wave 700 chip could be useful..
...same for me. Never plugged it in, but interested in possibilities. I recall, though, that the hardware is bottom of the range, so perhaps not worth the hassle? I do still have an unused Vera Edge as a backup if necessary.
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It's about equivalent to an RPi 4, but with only 512MB RAM. That's more limiting than anything. I've run Reactor on it. It works. Not something you'd really want to do, but doable. I wonder if ZWave-JS would run on it and see the chip... I haven't tried that yet...
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@perh UI stuff is big on my mind these days...
@toggledbits wow!
UI/Dashboard by Patrik is going to be great! And no longer have to depend on the limited HE and Apple Home to set my dashboards.
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Any time Patrick sets out to do something, count me in! I still have my bucket of unused Vera/Ezlozerz controllers (some retired, some never used) sitting in a distant corner, while I thrive on Hubitat. Is every HA company run by a Melih-type? I'm starting to think so. All about "control" if you catch my drift.
Always grateful to have the company of titans like you guys, and glad we all escaped our old dungeon intact. Surprised as anyone that V/E is still in business; their products must have reached whatever sufficiently "okay" status needed to serve the CEO's mansion.
I won't be a party pooper by mentioning my current favorite (by far) Dashboard app, nor is this the place for me to publish/share my spreadsheet of HA Dashboards currently competing in that space. For mulit-hub use, none surpasses MSR!!!
Let me know if you'd be interested in me posting that database up somewhere on the SmartHome forum, and I'll happily do so.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE!
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Any time Patrick sets out to do something, count me in! I still have my bucket of unused Vera/Ezlozerz controllers (some retired, some never used) sitting in a distant corner, while I thrive on Hubitat. Is every HA company run by a Melih-type? I'm starting to think so. All about "control" if you catch my drift.
Always grateful to have the company of titans like you guys, and glad we all escaped our old dungeon intact. Surprised as anyone that V/E is still in business; their products must have reached whatever sufficiently "okay" status needed to serve the CEO's mansion.
I won't be a party pooper by mentioning my current favorite (by far) Dashboard app, nor is this the place for me to publish/share my spreadsheet of HA Dashboards currently competing in that space. For mulit-hub use, none surpasses MSR!!!
Let me know if you'd be interested in me posting that database up somewhere on the SmartHome forum, and I'll happily do so.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE!
@librasun said in Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus:
I won't be a party pooper by mentioning my current favorite (by far) Dashboard app
Do it! That certainly won't offend me! While I have plans for the (much ignored) Reactor Dashboard, I don't think it will ever be a match for some of the amazing alternatives out there, for at least two reasons: first, I'm never going to make myself an Apple or Android (or Tesla phone?) developer and have apps for those platforms; second, the core of the product for me is the logic engine, not the dashboard, and that will always be true and it will always be where I put the lion's-share of my thinking and effort. Just like Home Assistant has its Lovelace, I want to get Reactor's Dashboard to the point where some plurality of users is fine with it; the rest can choose to go bigger if they wish.
So please, if you have favorites, it doesn't kill my joy to have you promote them here!
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@librasun said in Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus:
I won't be a party pooper by mentioning my current favorite (by far) Dashboard app
Do it! That certainly won't offend me! While I have plans for the (much ignored) Reactor Dashboard, I don't think it will ever be a match for some of the amazing alternatives out there, for at least two reasons: first, I'm never going to make myself an Apple or Android (or Tesla phone?) developer and have apps for those platforms; second, the core of the product for me is the logic engine, not the dashboard, and that will always be true and it will always be where I put the lion's-share of my thinking and effort. Just like Home Assistant has its Lovelace, I want to get Reactor's Dashboard to the point where some plurality of users is fine with it; the rest can choose to go bigger if they wish.
So please, if you have favorites, it doesn't kill my joy to have you promote them here!
I would honestly rather @toggledbits kept his focus on the logic engine - there's plenty of ways out there already to do "pretty", not as many doing such a great job at the "smart".
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Also, I want to add: some of you may know that on Vera, I added support for some of my plugins (e.g. AVT) for the now-defunct ImperiHome, which had its own "lingua franca" query API by which it could request information from a foreign system. I thought that was extremely clever and useful to incorporate (they called it ISS). It made it possible for me to make the effort of integration, rather than hoping/asking them to do it. If there are other existing dashboards that can do this, I'd be happy to look at providing the necessary endpoints in Reactor to make it work. For dashboards that don't do this, encourage them to do it!
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My home setup is minimal and because WAF only depends on Alexa listening and Hubitat executing, a dashboard really doesn't factor into my daily driving.
But for now, having scoured the forums for details on every extant DB app out there, and compiled a comprehensive tally of their features, my current "favorite" (read: for beta testing purposes) is definitely hubiVue from the Australian developer Grant Slender.
He is taking it in all the right directions, IMHO, and his upcoming releases promise to achieve feature completeness and mass appeal.
Highly recommend kicking the tires. I may even invite him to join SHC so he doesn't risk pissing off HE staff as traffic to his user app thread increases. They love declaring upstarts as "competitors" and then banishing them from the community, which is mighty regrettable. Sound familiar?
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My home setup is minimal and because WAF only depends on Alexa listening and Hubitat executing, a dashboard really doesn't factor into my daily driving.
But for now, having scoured the forums for details on every extant DB app out there, and compiled a comprehensive tally of their features, my current "favorite" (read: for beta testing purposes) is definitely hubiVue from the Australian developer Grant Slender.
He is taking it in all the right directions, IMHO, and his upcoming releases promise to achieve feature completeness and mass appeal.
Highly recommend kicking the tires. I may even invite him to join SHC so he doesn't risk pissing off HE staff as traffic to his user app thread increases. They love declaring upstarts as "competitors" and then banishing them from the community, which is mighty regrettable. Sound familiar?
