What's next for Domoticz??

[Milan]

Domoticz is a great system where I have everything under control thanks to dzVents. I basically don't use any special hardware except for: RFlink, Garni weather station, yeelight lights. I control everything else using ESPEasy. I also control outdoor blinds, garage doors and whatever else is needed through this application. Great job!

[waterworld]

I am using Domoticz for 6 years.
Actually it is work fine with Tasmota. now I starting line out all various brand of sensor, and I build my own actuator and sensor with Tasmota. there are a lot of inspire and fun to build your own project.
so far, I found that the RF and IR work good in tasmota and domoticz

[Gravityz]

i am a long time user of domoticz, i think from 2012 until now.

since i switched to docker and all my zwave devices to zigbee the system is extremely stable.

also upgrading and rolling back to previous versions is a breeze with docker

very happy with the small footprint and resources it consumes.

i recently upgraded to the latest build with energy dashboard.
also very nice, would be 100% if i can use 1 click from the domoticz gui to see it instead of under setup

[Pinguin]

Hi everyone, I use domoticz since 2016. The first goal was to have be able to monitor my house from a remote place. As I'm electronic engineer, I have no problem to build sensors, but I don't would like to waste time to reinvent the wheel. The worst thing is the integration of Netatmo weather station, because they change without notice authentification, etc. Now I'm building sensors to get rid of netatmo.
In any case thanks to Gizmocuz for this big job and all contributors for their support.

The only wish I have is to be able to save all the data every 5 minutes for years as disk space is now cheap. I know I can do it by myself.

Thanks Gizmocuz.

[niki_lauda]

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The only wish I have is to be able to save all the data every 5 minutes for years as disk space is now cheap. I know I can do it by myself.

Thanks Gizmocuz.

Also first a great thanks to Gizmocuz (and many other contributors). Have been a user since 2013. And I support the wish to be able to save some data longer.
I Am a policy advisor and was and am a programming noob. Learned a lot from other scripts.
I maybe like they say in the Netherlands be cursing in the church, Claude.ai and Chatgpt are for me great tools to correct an perfect my scripts.
I hope Domoticz develops with the plug-in system into a full HEMS home energy management systeem. Energy usage and storage and for instance charging your EV wil become huge in the coming years.

[Henielma]

Interesting topic. It is good to read that Domoticz is still popular for different kind of users. For myself, I am an electronics guy, but I did in the past also embedded programming. For me the combination of DzVents scripts and EspEasy (including their rules system) makes a very flexible home automation system. I am running now 40+ scrips, mostly DzVents and some Blocky.
The last week I worked on coupling my Zaptec Go car charger to Domoticz. I finally succeeded to make my own Python application running on Ubuntu to readout the relavent data from the Zaptec cloud using their API. It send this info to Domoticz to calculate the charging costs in combination with my dynamic energy contract. With the use of CoPilot and Gemini it is quite durable to solve your own automation challenges using the Domoticz scripting as the basis for this.

[Artenverho]

I agree with both of you! If you know your way around Domoticz you can make amazing automations! HEMS is indeed something that I have been working on as well. I recently bought a plugin home battery and now have been investing quite some hours to setup proper charging/discharging scheduling. @Henielma: I actually used your script to obtain quarterly prices data from Enever. I also wrote scripts to ingest hourly Solar and Wind production forecasts from NED.nl. Combined these sources are now used in Dzvents scripts to schedule and then control charging of the battery:

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Oh and yes Claude and Gemini are very useful to figure out how to achieve things in languages I am less familiar with.


Anyway, happy user for more than 10 years now!

[Filip]

I am also a long time user with more than 300 devices almost automated lot of things, including connections with alarm system, automatic gate system, mowers, cars, heating system, solar panels, and also basic functions like lights etc... I like its flexibility! Some plugins are available on Github.

However what I am missing is a more convenient user interface... I would like to have eg all the information wrt the heating management (temp, power consumption, setpoint, radiator status, ...) on one widget instead of switching through different menu items (Switches for the thermostat, Temperature for the room temperatures, Utilities for the setpoints and radiator power consumption, ...). And why no dreaming having a consolidated graph with all this info... This could be by room and why not adding per room the most important switches to power on television, lights etc... Following the same philosophy the same would be true for some dedicated hardware plugins... Information from my cars or mower or other are spread over multiple menu items and need switching to get a global overview. No need to have all the buttons/timers management on it... For the management (edit, rename, timers, ...) we could use the dedicated devices. Just widget with visualisations and basic operations (on/off, setpoints, selectors, ...).

I know we can do it ourselves using the API (and I did some Proof of Concepts which give visually a good result), but when trying to integrate this in a Theme (I tried to add Machinon to have an extra entry to manage "widgets") it get more complex to have it easily done... I had something fancy working as PO, but didn't manage to integrate it very well.

Are there any thoughts/ideas to embed this in Domoticz? I know that this is a long-term request by many users and I read remarks that the architecture of Domoticz doesn't make it easy... But any thoughts to pick this up anyway?

But thanks to all contributors of Domoticz! Really well done!

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[madpatrick]

I agree, and I’ve been a long-time user as well.
I try to contribute whenever I can, though I’m neither an IT professional nor a programmer.

Domoticz is very stable in my setup, and I really enjoy working with DzVents scripting.
The only downside is that some hardware plugins are outdated or missing. I think the Domoticz community is smaller compared to the major home automation platforms.

There’s still a lot of development happening “under the hood,” which is important, but not always visible to most users.

What I miss most, like Filip, is an updated theme with more flexibility for menus and device sorting, and maybe a refreshed 2026-style UI. Machinon is nice, but it’s limited and no longer maintained.

This isn’t meant as criticism—just my two cents.
I love Domoticz and have no plans to switch to Home Assistant, since it’s not as flexible as Domoticz.

Keep up the good work !!

[Sjonnie2017]

I have been playing around with HA this weekend. I installed it in a Docker container and tried to get the basics up and running. Being a longtime user of Domoticz I had a hard time getting it to work as I wanted. Maybe I should have investigated more but then again... as a longtime Domoticz user I felt HA a bit awkward.

Agreed that the Dashboard could do with an overhaul but on the other side: it just works!

And have I mentioned the unique capabilities Domoticz has with Blockly and DzVents? Proably not but that is the reason why I stick to Domoticz!!!

[akamming]

I have been playing around with HA this weekend. I installed it in a Docker container and tried to get the basics up and running. Being a longtime user of Domoticz I had a hard time getting it to work as I wanted. Maybe I should have investigated more but then again... as a longtime Domoticz user I felt HA a bit awkward.

Agreed that the Dashboard could do with an overhaul but on the other side: it just works!

And have I mentioned the unique capabilities Domoticz has with Blockly and DzVents? Proably not but that is the reason why I stick to Domoticz!!!

i run a combination of domoticz and HA having the 2 connected using mqtt. The combi is perfect, combining the strengths of domoticz (P1 meter implementation, advanced scripting, plugin framework, etc..) and HA (WAF compliant dashboarding, big community, easy automations, very wide support of devices, etc..)

[harrykausl]

The only thing I'm missing in domoticz ist the matter integratrion. Therefore I use for my tadox-thermostats home assistant and control it vice versa between domoticz and ha. I have scripts and automations for this.
@akamming : Do you have a general mqtt interface between domoticz and ha or do you have to customize it for each device?

[pfloryann]

On this way I would like to thank @gizmocuz and the other developers for their dedication and development of the software. I have been using Domoticz for 7-8 years and is a great. I have an automated home with it. I like Domoticz because it is stable and has a strong core and I really like blockly. I try to report every time I discover bugs. I also have Home Assistant for testing which from my point of view has the advantage of a customizable dashboard and easy integration of hundreds of plugins and I think that good ideas can be taken over in domoticz as well.

I agree with what the other users wrote and I would add a few constructive things and not as a criticism:

- Developing the dashboard into a modern and responsive design so that it can be easily used by anyone, for example from a tablet on the wall without other integrations like dashticz etc. and a design that could be loaded into the Domoticz application, for example via webview. This dashboard can have customizable blocks and widgets (custom width, height, icon), in which you can choose how to group devices, sensors, cctv, etc. For example, for an air conditioner, you can add in the same block/widget, the energy consumption that is measured by another device, the temperature of another device such as a thermostat and its own controls, meaning you can combine them however you want. Also in the design part, I would add the possibility of creating secondary pages (dashboards), for example, you can customize a page dedicated to energy (solar and grid), one for lights or areas in the house or whatever you want.

-Another suggestion would be to edit the recorded energy value (I opened a ticket on github) due to some outliers that are incorrectly taken from zigbee2mqtt. At this point, you can delete that value...but it deletes the entire day and cannot be corrected.

-In blockly it might be good to have an additional "for" option in the condition (if temperature > 23C for 2 minutes)

I know it would be a lot of work for these things but I think it would help and grow the domoticz community.

[zicht]

Nice to read all this, here also no intent to leave domoticz as long as it will exist. Also an early user here.
What i like is the low complexity and easy way to make things the way i like it to behave.

What less experienced users not always see is the ability to run any hardware that has an api with domoticz.
Nowdays it is very easy with AI to create a pyton script as a worker ( and install as a service worker next to domoticz) to get device data and actions into domoticz due to its easy json structure that is supported. So if anything is not native supported you still can easy integrate this. This way it offers you the complete indepency of platform developers.
On every other system you have to wait till someone does, or go by yourself true a very complex hassle.

In my opinion, once you get used to domoticz, its a one of a kind software giving you endless flexibility.
If someone is looking for out of the box 100% functionality : there isnt any software doing this (though they try and say to be.)

Summing this all up makes me conclude there are 2 main streams -->
1 one: that is highly flexible and almost everything you imaging is possibe as long as the device supports it (Domoticz and a couple of others)
2 second: that is less flexible, bound to out of the box hardware support or a thrue a community, where you are highly dependend on the offered integrations

Domoticz combines those in a very convenient way, I hope Domoticz last for ever !
Many thanks to all the contributers over time ...

[niki_lauda]

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I know we can do it ourselves using the API (and I did some Proof of Concepts which give visually a good result), but when trying to integrate this in a Theme (I tried to add Machinon to have an extra entry to manage "widgets") it get more complex to have it easily done... I had something fancy working as PO, but didn't manage to integrate it very well.
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Did you/ can you share the POC maybe the community can get any further?

[Marathon2010]

I'm happy Domoticz user and thanks to all who contributes. Keep up the good work all

I would be in favor of native integration with voice. And voice should be any application like Google, Alexa, Rhasspy, … Result should be any device activity to perform via voice command as well. So like "turn on the light" or "set the heating to 18 degrees", but also "set the volume to 20%".

The Rhasspy-Domoticz integration is some kind of PoC and can handle a lot but definitely not everything. And will not be integrated natively, so prone to errors and break-up. Just a thought.

[rron]

I am also a happy user off domoticz for a long time. Since I went to the docker image it is very stable. I agree with akamming that the user interface (dashboard) could be more WAF complient. But then again I do not have the skills to make it.

[waltervl]

For WAF compliance I use the normal Domoticz Android app and on our central console (a cheap android tablet) the HomeHabit app
Unfortunately development stopped on the HomeHabit app but bugs will be fixed though.

[Sjonnie2017]

If you need a WAF compliant dash you should really take deep dive into Dashticz. Customisable beyond limits. You could even use a picture of your (grand)kids as a background (such horror! )

I myself returned to the standard Domoticz dash. Works wonders for me (fast en easy).

[rron]

Yes i know dashticz and tried it but unfortunately I don’t have a background off it so for me it’s complicated. I used to have a dashboard from blauwe buis but he stopped with domoticz so that’s not maintenance any more.
I read that more user made the remark about the dashboard. For the rest I am very happy with domoticz for almost 11 years now.