Domoticz

Hi,
I would just like to congratulate the Domoticz developers for the excellent job they have done.
More than 2 years ago I developed a Domoticz plugin for DomBus modules, connected to Domoticz by RS485 serial bus: that was my first experience with python programming, and in only 2 weeks the Domoticz plugins was perfectly working with full features.
Now, it's about 2 months that I'm developing the same plugin for Home Assistant, and I don't know how long it will take to complete it. I have to say that this is much much much more complicated.
Domoticz already manages the serial port, the python plugin can access all created devices very easily, and when Domoticz is restarted the status of each device/counter is restored automatically... these seems all abvious features, that in Home Assistant are missing!!
Also, DomBus modules have I/O that can be reconfigured by the user: just click on the device Edit button and write in the description, for example, IN_ANALOG,A=11.005 and that device (maybe a digital input or output) is configured as an analog input with displayed value = 11.005 * value_from_dombus_device. Doing the same with Home Assistant is very very complicated for both developer and user.
Although the web intereface is a bit out of date in comparison with Home Assistant, Domoticz is a really easy, stable and well designed system, that manages more than 200 devices in my house using a Raspberry PI3 without any defaillance: alarm system, cooling/heating/ventilation climate control, optimization to use most energy from photovoltaic, lights, irrigation, and much more.
Thanks a lot to all Domoticz developers for the very good program architecture!

Great to hear. I myself am also looking at home assistant as it has such a big and active user base. This often means that things get integrated or enhanced much faster.
That said, the python integration and dzvents scripting is much more powerful than anything I have seen in HA so won't be ditching domo any time soon...

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Have to say I agree. 90% of my issues have been with Zwave and 10% my own errors. As you say there have been a few GUI glitches but the core system (apart from Openzwave) is solid. Huge kudos to the developers.

That's why I ditched ozw in favour of zwavejs2mqtt. Muuuuch better. Only limitation is the current 256 devices bu that's being worked on.
So glad I don't use ozw anymore.

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@psubiaco,

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback!

I haven't seen a comparison based on the relative complexity of adding hardware support to the two platforms before so this is really useful.