I ran a HA system for a couple years at my last place. It was great when it worked, but I found it to be fragile, overly complicated, and not well engineered. I'm biased I guess, as I have mostly worked on embedded software and devices that need to be reliable. It's great if you like 'shake and bake' style open source projects that barely work and have a lot of time to tinker with them. I prefer my home automation to work 99.9% of the time and not require large, periodic time investments.
HA, out of the box, also seems to burn up solid state storage due to the absurd amount of logging.
HA looks sexy though, and I think that entices folks. It's nice to have a star-trek style dashboard running on a tablet or whatever. That's not really appealing to me though. I like my automation to have beautiful software, be well tested and reliable, and disappear into the background of my life. Being a SW guy at my day job, I really don't want to play SW engineer on the nights and weekends.
HA, out of the box, also seems to burn up solid state storage due to the absurd amount of logging.
HA looks sexy though, and I think that entices folks. It's nice to have a star-trek style dashboard running on a tablet or whatever. That's not really appealing to me though. I like my automation to have beautiful software, be well tested and reliable, and disappear into the background of my life. Being a SW guy at my day job, I really don't want to play SW engineer on the nights and weekends.