I recently had an inconsistent voltage issue for a few hours which led to HP requiring a USB tool based firmware update (might be random correlation of both events).
I was traveling for a week and this couldn’t be done by any other household member until I returned. Simply restarting HP did nothing. All smart home functionality disappeared for that week. First and only major downtime for my HP.
Is there way to set up two HP’s to gain 99.9% uptime (I’ve had my HP for less than a year, and a once a year failure rate is too high for me).
It is my goal to design home automatisation in such a way that everything can be switched manually when Homey fails. Or your router, or bridge or internet or what so ever.
Because sooner or later that will happen, and it always happens at an inconvenient time.
Once I returned home in the evening, and was not able to switch on the lights because a network bridge was broken. I don’t what that anymore.
So you better have a plan
Yes, agreed. That’s already the case in my home, it’s the automations that I lose plus voice commands to most devices since they are in apple home via homey pro.
How does a 5G stick work on a router? Does it consume data only when fiber is down? Does it require a router that has some sort of load balancing function?
I’d have posted exactly the same advice.
I’ve read about folks who removed all wall switches for instance
They seem to put so much (blind) trust in the complicated domotica stuff.
@Caesar To have an active spare Homey, you can use the automatic created cloud backups of H1 (I just assume you have a backup supscription in place).
Big issue: you cannot rewrite a backup to H2 automatically.
BUT, when you’re done fiddling and building with H1, a backup doesn’t need to be very recent, to have H2 control the house as, errr, backup device.
Maybe a weekly, or even a monthly backup rewrite to H2 is sufficient.
But that will be a manual task.
The Achilles heel of home automation systems and iot devices are the binding to a gateway. You can restore the flows from a backup (ipresume it works flalessly) but any bounds devices will be absent. Moving away from bound devices to protocols that do not require bound devices of for now the only way to do a fast recovery by restoring a backup onto a new HPr. In addition you can create virtual devices to represent all real devices, use the virtual devices in your flows, then create sync flows where you sync virtual with actual either by non-bound protocols or webhooks, and if no other option with bound devices. Then at least your system is mostly transferable to a new HPr, the only fiddling and rebinding will be in the sync flows. Cumbersome but a little more robust. This will remain a serious headache until HPr can have fail-over redundancy to another HPr, or the iot devices can be bound (paired if you like) to more than one device. Until then home automation will remain an amateur eco-system and will lack robustness.
