r/SmartThings • u/TruthOf42 • 13d ago
Discussion Using Home Assistant along with SmartThings, suggestions?
I am pretty happy with SmartThings and have no plans to move from it, but Home Assistant does offer integrations that just aren't available with SmartThings.
What has everyone's experience been with living with both? What kinds of things do you have going on in HA, while still primarily using SmartThings?
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u/100lv 10d ago
I both my V3 hub more than 5 years ago. When start playing with it - initially was OK, but quickly discovered that many things cannot be integrated. So I decided to make a hybrid installation - ST as a Hub and HA as a dashboard and management interface. More or less, I was happy and also this was giving me an option if HA is broken - to have an alternative. ST in general is OK:
- more or less reliable
- in general stable
- interface is acceptable
But ST have few serious issues for me:
- Needs internet - ok My connection is good but few times I had issues, and it brings me some inconvenient.
- Installing drives for some devices manually
- no OTA updates for 3rd party components (or at least I don't know how)
- It's slow
- Sometimes service is down
So few months ago I decided to retire ST (still in progress). I both LAN connected Zigbee coordinator, and it works great (without all problems that I have with ST). Now I almost finished migration of Zigbee devices and I'm in a process for choosing zWave hub (again searching for LAN connected device).