I got my new Homey and I am not happy about it

dzt
Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:49:46 +0000
Ideas & Suggestions

Hello everyone

Probably not that many people being sad when opening the postal package and finding a new Homey inside. Brings me to an alternative to the title:

Don’t be stupid - make the God damn back up.
(sorry for the click-baity title)

I wanted to make this as a friendly reminder to back up your Homey if you are not doing it already.

Briefly put: I got my homey, two years of automation and semi-advanced “programming” through its GUI (unable to advanced script), hundreds of flows, no back up, what could go wrong, moved Homey to a different socket, never booted again. Desperation, contact dealer, hope for it to be repaired (still think it was posible, but probably expensive), waited almost two months, got my hopes up due to the waiting, only to receive the package and find:

Bitter sweet feeling seeing this. But at least, it can’t get worse. Oh wait - it does! I went through all 5 stages of grief, decided to do the best out of it, learn from my mistakes, and take the back up this time, rewrite everything, document the architecture, maybe even put my marriage on the line and learn to script, and elegantly limit the use of GUI for running multiple flows instead where loops should be used, and finally document everything in some form for others to use. I’ve always wanted to share my flows and ideas - never had the time. That brought me here. So now I’ll make time.

I connected Homey yesterday, connected all devices as well (5-6h, working at 30%, drinking wine as well). Now, weekend at the parent’s, wanted to get at automation. Homey is offline. And online. And toggling it. Looses connection to cloud all the time.

Doing this enough so, that I cannot make the flows remotely. It’s on the same spot as the old one. Now, I’ve seen this one Keep losing Wifi? “ Homey is offline” and it said old hardware may have some issues regarding the connection.

[Here would be a prnt-scr of the Experiments menu, showing a microphone option. Can’t put more than one pic in the first post ever]

A mic? This is an older version isn’t it? FuuuuuaaaAAAA!!

I have to look into it when I get home. Local connection is without the problems. I don’t know if installing the mesh would fix this as the router is on the other side of the apt. The old one worked from that spot. We’ll see. I am getting tired, man.

Plus side is if I get it working it has NFC, and i have some ideas for that as well.

Thanks for reading my self-therapeutic post and remember kids - do the god damn back up!

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