#Homeseer vs wink manual#

This will probably be what eventually drives me off the Wink platform, but weвЂ™ll see. For example, IвЂ™m interested in the Sensative Strips door sensors, but Wink doesnвЂ™t currently have support for them (and rumor has it they donвЂ™t work at all).

Wink natively only supports a limited set of devices.

IвЂ™ll probably move the front porch switch later and put a different one in that has that feature. This is why I canвЂ™t recommend the Home Depot switches: they donвЂ™t support Instant Status (as the feature is called in Z-Wave land), and that means that my little robot can take ten seconds or so to respond when I turn the front porch light on. Older Z-Wave devices donвЂ™t report their status when manually switched the hub has to poll them periodically instead.This is annoying, especially when you consider how easy it would likely be to make one available. YouвЂ™re stuck using the zoomed up phone app. While Wink has an iPhone app, there is no equivalent designed for the iPad.Here are some of the more noticeable ones: As I went through the motions of getting this all set up, I discovered a number of issues that bothered me about my nascent home automation system. ItвЂ™s just too bad she canвЂ™t divine context from which Echo or Dot youвЂ™re talking to when dealing with the Wink skill IвЂ™d love to be able to associate my lights with rooms, and have her be able to match up вЂњTurn the lights onвЂќ with the group for the particular room IвЂ™m in.Д¬anвЂ™t have it all, I supposeвЂ¦ Losing Points Of course, itвЂ™s not like she has many to choose from just yetвЂ¦ Alexa manages to do a fuzzy match, however, and so far has always gotten it right. You simply add the Wink skill, give it your account information, tell Alexa to discover new devices, and youвЂ™re done.ДЄnd Alexa handles requests surprisingly well.ДЇor example, I can say вЂњAlexa, turn the front lights onвЂќ, and it will do it - even though I have no group named вЂњFront LightsвЂќ. Fortunately, thereвЂ™s an Alexa skill for the Wink. Talking PointsДЇor Christmas this year I received an Amazon Echo, and I thought it would be nice to integrate it with my home automation system. Fortunately, there are few enough buttons that you can just tap around and quickly find it. ItвЂ™s not horrible, but the app could probably do with a good usability overhaul with strict attention paid to the reactions of new users. The only catch I found is that the schedules are not in an obvious place. Simply add a schedule entry for turning the lights on at sunset, and another for turning them off at 3AM. Wink offers schedules, and theyвЂ™re pretty straightforward.

Turn on at sunset, and off at 3AM? Should be easy enough to do, right?

#Homeseer vs wink manual#

Manual control is nice, but I also decided that the lights should be on a schedule.