Some things have changed, which were reason to deprecate several brands:
- Compared to before, I have significantly less time for supporting this app
- The app is now ‘verified’ and works on Homey Cloud
- The app has been rebuilt from the ground up to modernise the code base and achieve the former
- I can only update the app as a whole, not just specific drivers/brands
The reason for a brand/driver being deprecated is one or more of the following:
- The pairing process is not user friendly (users have to manually grab IDs from some portal or find an IP address of their inverter)
- The vendor does not supply one API that supports most or all devices they sell
- The vendor has an API that is unstable (lots of downtime)
The above reasons lead to many support requests, which I don’t all have time for anymore. Additionally, Athom has guidelines on user friendliness, and the app wouldn’t get through if I would keep some of those drivers in.
It may seem frustrating because things worked just fine before the update. If there was a method to ‘freeze’ old installations, I would use it, but unfortunately this is the only practical way to move forward.
