I am really struggling to understand how are we talking so much one beside another @mstormi . I gave short story, was asked for details which I provided in links, then explained it again in the longer post, but I am still failing to get the message across.
Here is the short resume:
I installed openhab around 2 years ago on stable 2.2 (or maybe 2.1, irrelevant).
- On my first update samsung tv binding stopped working. I purchased harmony remote and “solved” the problem. All is on stable branch.
- on the next update mqtt stopped working (reason is not important in this context). For z-wave we got info in advance that there is braking change, so that was great. This is also all on stable branch
- Device that was supported in openhab was working unstable for me, so I was advised to install milestone branch as it fixes stability (against my will to go off the stable branch). Now each time openhab starts I must manually go in console and restart z-wave. So after each power outage none of my z-wave devices are working.
- Then ikea binding stopped working, probably as you mentioned Ikea messed something up, fix is either on its way, or somehow only 6 of us are affected
- few days ago myopenhab remote access stopped working. And now if I restart it, I should hope that it is “only” z-wave that needs manual handling.
- I guess new update is due soon, based on my former experience I will be quite reserved towards updating it.
How do you not see stability and reliability issues from user point perspective, when on two updates two thing stopped working, and new fixes introduce other issues?
It could be that finding exactly right word is challenging for me as English is not my primary language, but if it is not stability issue, then is a bug, if not a bug then it is reliability, if not that then is non-functional status of openhab, if not that then it is incompatibility. We can call it however we want to, but I (and few others on this very topic) are not experiencing openhab as stable as some do, not by our choice. Thus this post.
I feel like I am being persuaded that my system is actually working fine entire time, because it is working for majority of the users here.
5% of my system might be this one sensor, but since it has temperature and luminosity, it is actually controlling my lights in the house and also winwods shades (thus temperature). So that is pretty much my entire system. And since lights do not work already, pretty much 95% of my system is unusable, only thing working is some xiaomi sensors.
Btw, what was point with mentioning psychologyst or @rpwong sister? I will take this as a internet misunderstanding, as I am not expecting moderator on any forum to provoke people, as they should do quite the opposite, guide the discussion and stop people from being impolite to each other.
Also, you do not have to use time on this post if you do not want to, if you are annoyed by all the posts where people just whine like little kids, perhaps that means something, maybe it means that there is some stability problems (bugs, missinformation, documentation issues or whatever)… just maybe.
Not everyone is that good at expressing themselves, but that doesn’t mean they do not have something to say