I’ve been in my home for about 4 years now. It’s safe to say that over those 4 years, everything has gone to pot and now my smart home doesn’t work.

Everything is running through my network of Amazon Alexa’s. I have mostly Philips Hue bulbs with a few GE switches and Samsung Sensors connected through Samsung SmartThings. August Smart Locks. A few other odds and ends.

I’m to the point now where nothing in my Apple Home Kit shows as online anymore. None of my timed or sensor based automations work now.

I’m sure this is normal…right? Has this been your experience that everything slowly stops working? Any tips to keep things alive and fresh? Is the only solution to delete everything and start over?

  • coldharbour1986@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    First thing that stands out is the combination of so many ecosystems that should work with each other, but in my experience demand constant attention to actually do so.

    It’s one of the main benefits of home assistant, that it is built around working with outside hardware, whereas a lot of the things you are using have no interest really in making other manufacturers stuff play nicely.

    Edit: just to add I have noticed a marked deterioration in alexa specifically over the last year or so, directly correlating to amazon pulling away from developing it.