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0 pointsAlanYx1y ago0 comments

That's been my experience as well... it's a downward trend of reliability. Forty years ago my parents had a bunch of Radio Shack home automation stuff that was actually reliable, though functionally simple. Apart from Philips devices attached to a Philips hub, everything else I've tried in the last decade has been flaky in some way.

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mikestew1y ago· 2 in thread

Apart from Philips devices attached to a Philips hub, everything else I've tried in the last decade has been flaky in some way.

Everyone says the Philips bulbs are so reliable, yet they are the 2nd flakiest devices in our house (2nd only to those complete shit Leviton light switches that lose their minds once a month). One more “no response” when I open you in HomeKit, and I swear…

AlanYxOP1y ago

Are you using them with the Philips hub, or on their own?

mikestew1y ago

Philips hub, latest hardware, reset multiple times. There’s just something flakey about our setup. It might even be that the bulbs are, what, going on ten years old? Maybe newer ones are more reliable.

Or I’ll just replace them with Nano bulbs that use Matter. Those have been rock-solid.

ghaff1y ago

I used some X10 stuff for a number of years after I bought my 200 year old house which had a lot of pull chain lights and the like. Actually worked pretty well.

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