Yeah, I’m one of those suckers that bought a Revolv! To Google/Nest’s credit, the Revolv has continued to work even though new features weren’t being added or fixes being released. I had a bit of free time this weekend, and I finally had all of the pieces I needed, so I unplugged my Revolv and set up openHAB on a Raspberry Pi 2. Once I sat down to make the conversion I had pretty much everything switched over within half a day, although since openHAB is so much more configurable than Revolv I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past few days tweaking everything to my liking. The last piece that I neeed was the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 which I received last month. I’m also using a 2012 Insteon Hub that I kept from before I got the Revolv to connect my Insteon devices.
Right now, I’ve got 12 Insteon devices, 6 Z-Wave devices, a Nest Thermostat and two Nest Protects hooked up. Going forward I’m probably going to be sticking with Z-Wave devices, except that I need to replace a few standard smoke alarms with Protects. I’ve also got a few DIY projects in mind that’ll get hooked into openHAB.
I was also one of those “suckers” - although I was given a revolv as a tester. It had a lot of promise IMO, but then the $$$ showed up at the front door. However, I then became an even bigger sucker going to SmartThings. Ugh. I finally gave that up last week (not that I was really using it after all the struggles with it) and moved to OH2. Biggest regret is having a mixture of device types. That was only because I was testing the revolv. But, I mostly have Insteon devices right now and to be honest, love them.
I too love the endless options and configuration ability of OH2 - and the fact it’s totally open source so I can actually add things I need. Not that there’s anything at this point Other than my yale locks running zwave everything just works. And, from what I’ve been keeping track of support for those is getting there.