Poll: PLEASE PARTICIPATE - Popular Plugins Maintained by the Pimatic Project

mwittig

This is a poll to find out which plugins (only plugins currently maintained by the pimatic project) you use as part of your pimatic setup. The results may be be used for the following purposes:

decide which plugins should be included in pre-installed setups
decide which plugins should be more closely integrated into the pimatic base systems
decide which plugins are candidates for retirement
decide on priorities for feature development and maintenance

Thanks for your participation!

fregger

@mwittig What about ds18b20? It’s not in the list and i use those sensors a lot.

quotschmacher

@fregger maybe this one is Not developed and maintained by the pimatic Team.

Bill BlackSoll

Maybe a little of topic, but i would like to add my humble opinion.
A home automation system must provide out of the box basic support to popular hardware like 1wire, z-wave, 433 Mhz devices.
Of cource must support automation rules and automation scenarios based on devices and a nice web based interface.
Pimatic is perfect and i love the whole diy mode, but many people don’t have the skills or the knowledge to built a sensor or a relay board and they prefer the easy sollution of a z-wave device or a ready relay board that they can buy.
I also believe that the future is wireless, so developers must focus on that and support such devices.

mwittig

@fregger said in Poll: PLEASE PARTICIPATE - Popular Plugins Maintained by the Pimatic Project:

What about ds18b20? It

Sorry for missing this one out. I’ll setup a seperate thread for it.

mwittig

@bill-blacksoll said in Poll: PLEASE PARTICIPATE - Popular Plugins Maintained by the Pimatic Project:

A home automation system must provide out of the box basic support to popular hardware like 1wire, z-wave, 433 Mhz devices.
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I also believe that the future is wireless, so developers must focus on that and support such devices.

Thank you very much for your feedback. I fully agree it is important to support a wide range of hardware and technologies as the market for home automation is still pretty much fragmented. It should also be noted pimatic is a community effort and various developers have contributed fantastic plugins for pimatic.

As you say, the future is wireless, but I believe wired solutions will continue to exist.