You won't have to pay to connect HomeSeer with your Z-Wave, Insteon, or Sonos devices. It would be prohibitively expensive to support these devices for free, but this pricing model means that it's viable for HomeSeer to serve pretty much everyone. But it makes sense when you consider that HomeSeer supports a huge number of highly niche protocols and devices. This might be unpalatable to some, especially when you've gotten used to the broad (and free) device support offered by the likes of Samsung SmartThings and Wink. HomeSeer also emphasizes the security benefits from having a system not linked up to a potentially insecure service not controlled by the user. HomeSeer's HomeTrollers are "Internet independent", and will continue to work if there's an outage at your ISP. On its website, HomeSeer is adamant it's not like one of the cloud-based smart hubs that have flooded the market in recent years.
You can combine devices, and you can remotely control them from anywhere in the world.īut wait, I hear you say.
The basic functionality of the HomeSeer system is that it allows you to automate your various smart home devices, and set conditions upon which they do something. Alternatively, you could get a HomeSeer Smart Controller, or "HomeTroller". There are thousands of these on the market, each with their own inherent advantages and disadvantages. When you start to build your smart home, you eventually reach a point where you want to combine and automate the gear you've bought.
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