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Home-Assistant Compatible Hub Needed (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by seperis@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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My SmartThings Hub is (slowly) starting to error out more and more. I'm doing a soft reset monthly to keep everything up ( I did a hard reset about a year ago when I moved), which works, but I think it's time I start learning a new hub, preferably one not discontinued. My original plan was to put everything in Home Assistant when this time came, but a.) I really like it as my home coordinator with my custom scripts and addons and I don't want to mess with what is working right now and b.) while I'm getting the hang of running zigbee on there, zwave is in progress and thread...not really working most of the time.

So. I need to buy a general all-protocol hub; any recommendations that are fully compatible with Home Assistant? One with custom scripting would be a huge plus; I miss doing that in SmartThings.

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[–] seperis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use zigbee, zwave, and thread. I've migrated half my contact sensors, a few motion and presence, and two rooms of light bulbs to thread, which HA is...questionable on, hence beginning my search.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well Thread has practically boxed itself in as a secondary protocol, so I think you're safe there. Sonoff adapters do both Zigbee AND Zwave I believe, and then you can tie it all together with HA add-ons, so I think you're fine.

[–] seperis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So far, the OTBR on HA isn't working, but...if it's an age and device issue, it may be migrating the zigbee and zwave over to HA and leave my SmartThings for my OTBR devices will work for now. That may at least buy some time to work out how to make the HA's OTBR work.