Hi, again a beginner question but I was wondering why I often see these things passing:
- pilight
- homeduino
What do you use it for that pimatic can’t?
pilight/homeduino usage
Hi, again a beginner question but I was wondering why I often see these things passing:
What do you use it for that pimatic can’t?
I think you should use Homeduino. Pilight is not no longer supported here at the moment.
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If you decide to use pimatic don’t bother about pilight anymore. I used to have it for some weeks but then discovered pimatic. Was the time where homeduino was only in sweetpi’s mind
What pilight cannot do is for example having such a great rule system. Also you cannot work with variables and read logfiles. There are more things about pilight but I don’t really remember and do not miss a thing Whats great about pimatic is that you can use (and develop) plugins easily to suit your needs.
Another great thing about Pimatic is our forum and it’s community. We’re having great programmers, hardware tinkerer, spin doctors and people who care about pimatic.
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@leader21 said:
What pilight cannot do is for example having such a great rule system. Also you cannot work with variables and read logfiles. There are more things about pilight but I don’t really remember and do not miss a thing Whats great about pimatic is that you can use (and develop) plugins easily to suit your needs.
Another great thing about Pimatic is our forum and it’s community. We’re having great programmers, hardware tinkerer, spin doctors and people who care about pimatic.Cheers
Ok thx for the feedback,
the great community I already discovered
I’v ordered a razberry as zwave looks the best for using in my home (only the upper rooms will be fitted with new cables, downstairs I have normal two-way switches)
don’t know much about zwave but pimatic has a z-way plugin
http://www.pimatic.org/plugins/pimatic-z-way/
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@M-Redant I largely agree with @leader21 and I think the a pig plus for pimatic is flexibility and eas of use if you want to combine different home automation technologies. However, to be fair, when you solely look at 433 Mhz domotics and compare pilight versus homeduino, I believe, homeduino is falling behind. In fact, I am still having stability problems with homeduino as my setup fails once every day or two. Pilight also provides some interesting features pimatic does not support yet (I am sure pimatic will catch up soon):
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I am sticking to pimatic
@M-Redant Good choice. Please let us know about your your findings with applying z-wave sensors/actors and integrating them with pimatic, i.e., using pimatic-z-way.
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k, will do