I am still here but only use HG as a bridge from Hubitat to X10 basically.
When I was active I was using C#.
Got tired or too many issues with HG… and for my allegiance… now Hubitat reliability is also falling through the floor… Home Automation is only for those who want another hobby I guess .
Great to hear you’re still persevering @kevinvinv . A lot of of home automation programs come with their own difficulties but I can report that HG is working quite stable with Raspbian Buster.
Your C# contributions would be more than welcome here as you know. It would be nice to see you back here with your contributions.
oldcanuck here. I have at times asked a question or two and alqays got extremely good answers, but the days of me coding anything are far in the past. Most of my components date from the 80’s and my controllers no longer function. This program has been wonderful to keep old equipment functioning and keep us more safe at night.
windows 10 , android app on 3 phones, and a whole lot of really old modules.
A lot has been changed during the last 1.5 years: I’ve become a father and got a promotion at work, so now I mostly manage developers instead of coding myself =)
All these changes lead to a “no free time” problem: mostly I spend it with a family or trying to recover after tough work week. That’s why I don’t contribute to HG and answer here on forums (and also because mostly questions are related to X10 and I don’t have experience with it).
Meanwhile, HG is stable and doesn’t require my attention (I use my own dockerized version) so I don’t have to think about it.
Hi everyone!
I usually check this forum 2 or three times a week at least. I’m late jumping on the HG band wagon and although I use to code in VB, C# isn’t to had to convert to.
My HA season doesn’t usualy start till 2nd week of Dec. During that time I usually attempt to tweak some part of my setup which is mostly but not limited to X10.
Great to hear from you @Bounz1 . Life is good. Maybe there’s hope for the rest of us HomeGenie users so
Yes there was an upsurge in interest in X10 but again that is only a fraction of the capabilities of HomeGenie as you well know.
HomeGenie does indeed to appear stable running under the latest Raspbian release, Raspbian Buster but all software needs ongoing development to keep apace with ever evolving technologies
Are you coding in VB and now C#. I understood from you that you weren’t a coder. Maybe I misunderstood you.
That’s great news. Loads of C# code contributions required here. Maybe you could work on that wonderful contribution from @David_Wallis, the HG EchoBridge from his GitHub that’s currently not working in its current format. I’m sure many of the HomeGenie users and particularly the X10 group would welcome a working solution. I look forward to that.
Not really a coder just a novice at best Though I did write a number of programs using the x10 AHP SDK.
Id have to dig into the alexa Api. I know AMAZON changed things and port 80 must be used now for software bridges.
Still active, but took it a bit easy for a while. All my HG systems work without intervention, have done for a few years now. Recently started developing again.
It’s the same for most users.No real updates happening to HG these days so everyone personalizing their own installs.Nice to hear you’re still using it.
Just revisiting this subject two years later now that finally there is an alpha version of Home Genie in production from the original author. He is working on both a .Net Framework and a .Net Core 3 flavour and possibly a welcome addition of a brand new GUI.
I’m not sure at this stage what interest remains in Home Genie but if it was possible, if you’re dropping past here for a browse could you indicate if you still use it and if so what platform you use it on. Just a simple one line response would suffice.
As the author has no intention of establishing a forum for his latest offering this is the only tool available exclusively dedicated to Home Genie where you can post your queries, make suggestions for improvements and share your ideas with fellow users.
Once again many thanks to the ongoing efforts of @Bounz for hosting this forum. Opinion would have been dead in the water back in 2017 without him.
Hi! I’m still an active user of HG and actually for me nothing has changed since this post. It’s great that Gene decided to move the project a little further!
UPD: there was an issue with Club server, so this message and Peter’s answer were lost. So, here is a copy of that message:
@Petediscrete:
I remember you mentioned in one post that HG could do with code refactoring in light of the developments in the .Net Core world.
Not sure if you have the time to look at the work Gene has carried out recently but I imagine someone like yourself could provide a serious critical review of it.
Unfortunately not many with the level of technical expertise you possess joined the Alpha testing so it’s quite difficult to get a true technical appraisal of the .Net Core Version.
It’s hard to gauge the level of interest in HG these days particularly as Home Assistant seems to have consumed the home automation market probably down to the fact that it’s actively developed (probably a little too often for some and of course it’s has a very active community.