What I Found After Using Hubitat To Run Automations And Who Should Buy It 

A great robust platform, if you're not after looks, local is the way to go.

Nice work. I can’t imagine living without my Hubitat.

Zing with the Windows 3.1 reference, lol! Very slick, my friend. I rate this info a SMASH!

Great info, thanks for sharing. I currently use Home Assistant and it has been very reliable for me.

Nice video. Thanks!

Nice video's you make about Hubitat. I bought the Hubitat c7 hub last week, it's bound to be delivered today. I understand that the Hubitat is so versatile; so many options to customise the app to ones needs, that here might be quite a learning curve. It's gonna be a challenge. But your video's did not discourage me at all, on the contrary! So let my adventure begin; switching over to Hubitat. I've got Philips Hue devices and the hub, but Philips Hue is ridiculous expensive. I use Amazon Alexa Echo gen. 4 (=Zigbee 3,0) as voice control for the Hue. Besides Hue devices I also have devices which are more or less compatible with Hue: Gledopto led strips; I can switch them on and off with Alexa and the Hue app, but for changing colours of the Gledopto led strips I have to use the Hue app, I also have a lot of Innr on/off smart plugs and Innr (RGB) smart light bulbs controllable with Hue app and Alexa. Since the Hue ecosystem is so ridiculous expensive I want to be able to automate my home with devices, which have far better value for money than the Philips Hue devices, and devices which I can control far more extensive than with Philips Hue app and Hue bridge. And what I also fancy: One doesn't need the internet to control the devices connected to the Hubitat hub.

Modes and GeoFencing are both important and used differently. I use Life360 for GeoFencing and if my mode is away and I enter the GeoFence of maybe 25 miles away from home, I set my thermostat to my desirable temperature so when I arrive home, my A/C or Furnace, would've had time to run to the desired temperature. If I use modes and motion sensors instead(since you discourage GeoFencing), automation would adjust the temp the minute one arrives home (motion sensed) and that is not optimal as I would arrive home to a non desirable temperature. Adding GeoFencing to the mix make your home smarter. Many other uses for GeoFencing, turn mode to away when everyone vacates the house - but only of distant of maybe 5 miles from home (just incase someone is walking the dog) . If I left home and I'm 2 miles away and its a Monday, text me "did you put your garbage can to curb", etc.

Good overview. I dumped Smartthings two years ago and moved to Hubitat. I too had trouble with geo fencing and the problem turned out to be our phones. I integrated the free version of life 360 into hubitat and and now geo fencing is rock solid. It activates at the exact same location everytime.

Adding devices has gotten even easier with the new GUI interface. It was but clunky before. The only device that was a pain was some GE Z-Wave switches but that was mostly due to a poor description of how to include them.

I don't know if you revisited geo-fencing but if you have interest in re-visiting it, you don't have to leverage the Hubitat App for geo-fencing. For example my kids already have Life306 running on their phones, so I tap into that to tell hubitat when the kids are home or away. On my phone, I use a macro tool and tap into the hubitat API's to trigger events based on specific conditions and location

Great device. Can’t beat it for average to pro level work.

I like you loved the home automation platform that i had before the one i have now except the one i had before was hubitat and the one i have now is Home Assistant. Don't get me wrong Hubitat is great and all but home assistant takes it just that much further. No proprietary hub almost everything you integrate is local based and it supports just about every IoT device out there. Sorry I know hubitat is great and HA is not for everyone but just had to get this out there. 🤗

You are right, the UI is old as the code. It is VisiBasic. Old and reliable, and super easy to learn.

The whole 14 hour fish tank scenario is where webcore comes back in. Rather then having a 14 hour timer running for that long. Instead, when an automation turns it on, you store the time it came on as a variable. Something like; When fish tank changes to on Set variable 'OffTime' to $time + "14:00" As long as the power is on when the automation turns it off it will work. No timer needed. Of course with webcore being a very advanced tool, you can actually define parameters for switching something off. Like; Every 30 mins do If time is outside of range $time & 'OffTime' Turn off fish tank So even if the fish tank turns on and then your power goes out for 15 hours. As soon as power comes back, the fish tank will turn off within the next 30 mins. Make the time less if you want it sooner. It also has the benifit of not running a piston for 14 hours during which anything could retrigger it or if you click test accidentally. The above would only run the piston once every 30 mins just to check if the time is outside of a range.

Good review. Thanks. Does it work with Lutron light switches?

Good morning, I'm having trouble with my ecobee recognizing that a user is home. When my wife leaves for work and is past the geo fence the thermostat sets hold to away even though I'm home. How can I resolve this? Thanks

Great review, I just get a C7 but I didn't find the way to add all my wifi devices, have you have a video tutorial how can I configure them?

Hello Brother, believe or not I purchased hubitat over a year ago and never used it ever since, I have so many things under smartthings it would be a struggle to go over them all with hubitat, including all the automations etc, things go smoothly and not having things local never bothered me but that might be just an excuse to keep it in my drawer lol

Hi Can you make a video, How to integrate Hubitat with Home Assistant

What model do you have?

Do i need zigbee hub to connect zigbee devices to habitat?

A little embarrassed to admit I’m still using Wink. Would this be a reasonable platform to move my Wink devices to?

For things like a 14 hour fish tank, you should have "of between 7am and 9pm, and fishtank off, turn fishtank on." Then "at 9:01 pm, shit fishtank off" or "if between 9pm and 7am and fish tank on, turn fish tank off." This will never ruin an automation as long as your device doesn't lose too much power. But for things like animal care, it should never rely on a cloud service.

I’m a Mac user and also worked for Apple so, yes, looking at the interface, o was like 🤢🤮😫🤬

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Background music is very distractive

People ought to know that the Hubitat is an ABSOLUTE PAIN IN THE ASS to set up. To add a device, you must know what company made the device. For instance, if you want to add a lightbulb, you can't just ask the Hubitat to find the lightbulbs in your house. You have to tell it to find the XYZ lightbulbs in your house. And if you don't know who made it, you aren't going to be able to add the bulb to the Hubitat. And who in hell remembers the manufacturer of a device they bought 5 years ago? Furthermore, if you bought the device before you bought the Hubitat, you will probably find that the device is not supported. In other words, there is a small list of supported manufacturers, and if your device's manufacturer is not on the list, you are SOL. I will have to learn how to make it work, but anyone considering buying a Hubitat needs to know it has MAJOR setup/compatibility issues. If you are not willing to make Hubitat your life's work, you probably want to buy something else.