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Hi again,

I'm at the point where I will buy a home automation hub. I've narrowed it down to SmartThings and VeraEdge. I see Kevin is active on the Vera forums and it looks like a snap to integrate the my Vista 20 with AD2PI bundle. However, the SmartThings controls additional protocols and appears to have greater potential in the future.

It looks like a real pain to integrate the SmartThings into my existing system without changing a few things. So, I decided to ask you guys.

Which one?

Thanks.

The easiest routes are the Vera or HomeSeer, but Vera is the only one verified to work over network to connect to our bundle. I believe Indigo for Mac can do this as well.

SmartThings I know supports us, but I believe requires an arduino and their specific hub/arduino shield - a lot more extra hardware than the above solutions.

And I don't see a "stop" on device support for Vera - if it is zwave or network compatible, you can always develop a plugin for it. I know it is fairly trivial to perform "scenes" based on alarm events.

Do note that the only Home Automation hub we have in office personally is the Vera. It's probably our biggest consumer install base besides HomeSeer on the HA front.

Thanks for the feedback. I will say that it is because of your great support that AD2PI is used daily and the Envisalink is gathering dust in my closet.

Well, we're always here for our customers, thanks As always, if there are any suggestions or features you would like us to consider, please by all means. Also, the benefit of the webapp we released I feel is a better solution privacy wise - no central place to register and control your device etc. Plus it being open source it is possible to have the community contribute and add features

Our protocol is also open to those who want to develop libraries or integrate it into home automation plugins - plus our own open source python library is easy to interface your own code with to do your own custom things on alarm events.