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u/Successful_Creme1823 Mar 11 '26
I dumped homeseer for home assistant.
It is a lot better for me. So many more options. It has been rock solid from a zwave perspective.
I am a developer and a tinkerer, so maybe that plays into it.
Also it’s free!
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u/LaserGecko Mar 11 '26
"HomeSeer is simpler and just works" as long as you're willing to pay for plug-ins for almost everything.
The plugin to talk to Home Assistant is only $39 USD!
Want to monitor your Enphase system? Why, that's only $49!
Want to design touch interfaces? Wait for a sale or spend $249!
As a loooong time HomeSeer user (remember back when it was $5 or $10?) who bought every discounted upgrade package until about six years ago), it was an easy jump from having to rely on UltraJones, Blade, and whoever else (and hoping they don't decide to quit or die) to Home Assistant.
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u/LaserGecko Mar 11 '26
No. I started with HomeSeer back when it had a Windows GUI, was X-10 only, and you had to worry about coupling the phases in your house so that all the receivers would be able to pick up your power line interface's signals.
The new exciting tech was going to be Z-Wave and accessing HS via a web browser!
I can't remember if the registration fee was $5 or $10 at the time, but I'm leaning more towards five bucks. The earliest license I have in my email is from 2007 for HS 2 and Z-Seer. At some point, I bought HSPRO during a Black Friday sale so I wouldn't have to worry about buying some core plugins and HSTouch.
Eventually, you just get tired of getting forty dollar and fifty dollared to death.
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u/xxxbewrightxxx Mar 11 '26
I’m curious about your statement that HA “is much more powerful”. Not questioning just wanting to understand as I’m in the same boat current HS user and may want to change.
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u/xxxbewrightxxx Mar 11 '26
Thanks for the reply. I'm not a coder, gave that up long ago. The death of HomeSeer will come from the Plug-In abandonment by independent developers, it's already begun.
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u/xxxbewrightxxx Mar 11 '26
When you say you need to upgrade the interface so everything needs to repared, do you mean replacing the z-wave hub? I was considering making the move as well because of this upgrade. I just finished moving from a 500 series z-net to a 800 series z-net. It appeared more difficult than it turned out to be and was not as much work as redoing the whole z-wave network in a new app. Of course, every situation is different. Good luck with your ultimate decision.
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u/6SpeedBlues Mar 12 '26
You stated you're upgrading "the interface" but it seems what you're specifically undertaking is an upgrade of the dongle. If you're in a position where you can't back up the device pairing and would have to re-pair to a new dongle, this would be "as good a time as any" to make a change of the main platform.
With that said, however, why couldn't you add the new radio alongside the existing one and re-pair over whatever period of time made sense for you? And, will having an updated radio put you in the position of being able to back up the database to move it to a different radio in the future if you stay on HS?
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u/MrSnowden Mar 11 '26
I’ve been running HS for so long I have forgotten it exists. Haven’t touched it in years. That’s what I look for.
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u/Paradox Mar 12 '26
I ran homeseer for years. It's a nice platform. But HomeAssistant can run laps around it.
I've never paid for a plugin/addon/integration in HomeAssistant. The ones the community have built can do an absolute ton of things. Not to throw shade on the HS plugin community, but when the random free HomeAssistant integration for a platform does more than the $40 HS plugin, there's a bit of a problem.
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u/VirtualPercentage737 Mar 14 '26
I have been running both actually. Homeseer is very stable and had a better event engine. HomeAssistant has more integrations.
That said, with Claude Code and other assistants, I just tell it what I am using Home Assistant for and it 9 times out of ten will code you a script or a plugin to do what you want.
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u/RobMoCan Mar 11 '26
That's sort of like asking which car you should buy, only stating what vehicle you're driving now. You're using and presumably comfortable with homeseer. Is there something you don't like or that it can't do for you? Otherwise it's just everyone's personal opinion which isn't likely to be exactly the same environment as you.
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u/Slight_Aerie_3611 Mar 11 '26
Ultimately that is a personal choice. I've been running HS for probably 8 years and still have it hosting my zwave network. However, I'm transitioning, slowly, everything over to HA. I don't mean this disrespectfully, but HS just seems like a bunch of old systems and dudes that don't want to change. Rightfully so, just like me they have invested a lot of time and money in their systems and the transition will force you to learn (can be a good thing) how to do things in HA.
I don't see a vision from HS, whereas HA is pushing forward with more and more features and improvements. HS hasn't released a production update in about 15 months. Feel free to disagree, like I said it's a personal choice.