wink hub 2?

[Jack Stewart]

Hi James,
Just sitting here reading the mail an am reminded that I would love it if you would build support for Z-Wave into XTension thus having “home automation” in a single box.
As you know, I run multiple systems and even adding just Vera geometrically complicates my maintenance issues.
Jack


> On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:53 PM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
> 
> As of this moment the answer is no, I could support it in the future but everything it does is up in the cloud. There is no local communication to the hub at all even if it’s on the same local network and sitting on the same shelf in the closet with your Mac. So as long as nobody is streaming a movie and as long as the internet and their cloud is working it works pretty good. There are a lot of things in that chain that can go wrong though and while there will be times when it’s far more laggy than the Vera. 
> 
> I have a visceral reaction to things that require me to connect to the cloud in order to talk to the box sitting next to my mac ;) And have avoided such things whenever possible as the performance is so very variable. And you’re completely offline if the internet goes down. If the lawn guys dig through your cable line (which happened to me twice in three days a couple of years ago) you’d not be able to control any lights at all even though the box was still powered on and sitting right there.
> 
> I’m willing to be convinced that it’s far more awesome and that I should implement that though ;) Tell me why that doesn’t matter and how I should swallow my initial reaction and embrace it ;) I don’t believe it’s better at this moment. I do know that some people here have had problems with the Vera too even though I do not. I don’t have any lag problems or anything else, it’s response it very fast and I have trouble seeing the need for other ZWave support. I think there is definitely something that can be done to make it slow down and become quite frustrating just given the stories I’ve heard from people. I’ve never been able to figure out exactly what that is though.
> 
> If you’re having speed problems I would look at a couple of things. Are you getting routing errors in the XTension log? If it can’t get commands through then things start to hang up but those errors should be logged when you try to send a command to that device. Have you changed the polling settings in the Vera or are you manually doing polling via the query command in XTension? I think, but am not certain, that when something is being polled that nothing else can happen on the network until that device either responds or the command times out. I have turned off polling for all my units that properly support instant reporting as well as any unit that it just doesn’t matter if the database is up date immediately. It’s even more important if the device is on the edge as far as routing a signal to it is concerned. If the polling is failing then it’s going to hold up the entirety of the rest of the network. Lastly I would have a look at any apps that you have installed on the Vera. Those can definitely cause a problem sometimes. All of the Wink hub’s apps are in the cloud, though they do have a local app api now they don’t let you use it for very much at all as they don’t want you to cause that same problem in their box. 
> 
> Also your graphs from your electric meter look awesome. i’ve been out of town this past week and haven’t even begun to catch up on my outstanding emails yet. I really want to see the scripts you’re using to capture that data and put them up on the wiki for others to use. It really seems fantastic.
> 
> So if you still think the wink hub is the solution to the problem then convince me ;) I can definitely support it, I just need to prioritize it.
> 
>> On Jul 22, 2018, at 1:55 PM, W. John Guineau <wjg321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi James, et al,
>> 
>> Does xTension support the Wink Hub 2? I've been using a VeraPlus for some of my automation and am just not too thrilled with it. Buggy, laggy, constant loss/reconnect etc. 
>> 
>> Wink at least gets another star or so over Vera on Amazon. :)
> 
> Thanks,
>  James
> 
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> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com
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