I started with IR to RF transmitters and receivers and X-10 with the IR hub to use with my Marantz RC5000 remote and X-10 RF remotes but was never satisfied with the lack of reliability of the X-10 signal between 110 legs of the electrical system so when I bought our house I brought most of the X-10 stuff with but never took the time to install any of it here. So I went many years without any automation, in 2012 the Iris v1 system came out with Zigbee and Z-Wave products and I decided to give it a try, and was much more impressed with the reliability of both Zigbee and Z-wave. I made it through the v2 hub transition and added Alexa to the mix and stayed with them until they shutdown, but I had already purchased a ST system the previous November when the Iris cloud services were down for a few days bringing the entire system down. I had ST running in parallel with Alexa there as well for about a year before Lowes announced they where looking for a buyer for the Iris platform, I had also purchased Hubitat but they didn’t have the Dashboard ready yet when I bought the hub so I never really did much with it for the first 9 months or so other than join the occasional device to see how much worked and not much did in the early months. By the time Lowes shutdown I had migrated a few devices to SmartThings but most of the devices went to Hubitat as it had pretty much all of the drivers that SmartThings had by then and most of the apps as well. After a few weeks on the Hubitat system and seeing it continue to do almost everything when I disconnected the internet I started migrating almost everything from SmartThings which had most of their devices local by then but only thier lighting app. Soon I only had the SmartThings hub online to run our Neato robot vacs since that app hasn’t been ported to Hubitat.
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