It was a nice run

Thank you homey for the last 5 years, but now i’m moving to HA, since once you are hooked to automating your home, in the end you want more, and sadly homey does not provide this enough, it is a natural evolution i think, but nevertheless, thanks to homey for introducing me to home automation.

kind regards,
Pixi

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Sorry to hear this, I hope that you get with HA the same WAF as with Homey.

I’m user off the first hour off Homey and make the step to HA allso, but after a few month’s I went back. there was no WAF (no trust in the family).

Now I have for all main things in Homey (what needs to be operate and easy by fam), and make the intergration <> to HA for all nice and new things. Including the dashboard.
The thinks what works good in Homey stays there, but other stuff works in HA.
And now it works together intergrate Homey<>HA.

Everybody happy Wife (family) and me.

Well, good automation does not require intervention, hence as long as the wife (and kids) experience that whatever they do, it just works, without any use of a mobile or buttons, it they are happy, hence i think i have achieved W(aK)AF, in HA in 2 day’s, since quite a lot of technical limitations were no longer there. but in the end… it all depends on what you would like to achieve. so, do what you love.
i started out when i was a kid, with an electrick moter, a battery and a lot or rope to open my curtains, these day’s it is a lot simpler :wink:

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Homey is absolutely awesome! The flows are the best thing since sliced bread, and I love the look and feel. I bought my Homey Pro (Early 2023) six months ago after being on HA for a year. I only bought HA because I couldn’t find a Homey in Canada for less than $500. One day, I saw a new one locally for $250. I couldn’t resist and migrated immediately.

Fast forward six months, and I’m going to move back to HA because I miss the flexibility in the code to make things do whatever I want and whenever I want. Sure, you might be able to achieve the same in Homey, but not without the JavaScript, and I tried that… it didn’t work well. The biggest pet peeve for me is, despite the web interface being super cool, nothing updates in real time… I always have to refresh. Maybe it’s a Safari thing, not sure, but it bugs me a lot.

In HA, the most annoying thing is the updates… they come hard and fast and seem to NEVER stop… like multiple per week… it’s insane. Sure, I could skip the little ones, but I see the notifications and visual in the portal.

Anyway, they’re both great systems. Now that I’ve tried Homey for a while, I like HA better. Just have to live with the crappy interface.

[Edit] One more thing:
Using HA, I SO miss being able to ask ChatGPT what kind of automation I want, when and how to run it and it will totally write the YAML code for me. If more than one YAML automation is required, it will write them all. If config changes are needed it will walk you thru every step and 9.5x out of 10 it is just copy/paste. If I want to tweak something I just paste what I have in ChatGPT, tell it what change I want and BAM… done.