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?
Not really. I had a major update to OpenHab which to be frank, isn’t the best at regression and backwards compatibility, and that kippered a lot of stuff, but once I had worked through those everything was back to normal.
Batteries run out, and sometimes kit can fail (touch wood I haven’t had that).
Though I think if you go down the commodity route with a mixed in ecosystem, you’re more likely to hit issues over a more involved system.