Comment by hirundo

I have found Home Assistant to be very user unfriendly and difficult to use. I have about $1000 in switches that are among the most popular Z-Wave devices on the market that I have not been able to get working, as well as other devices. I'm admittedly clueless with hardware, but I build software for a living. The few things that do work required hours of spelunking on forums into incomprehensible details of configuration. It's not a system I'd recommend to a typical consumer.