Sonoff has a strange politics of existence. But I guess all Chinese companies work this way. You have to produce something new to get funding from the state. Only new products are financially supported. All that matters is the production of the new one. They release new devices all the time. But each has some bugs, and they are not compatible with other devices. The worst thing is that these errors are never fixed because they don’t have time for it. Every device has to be great. Ihost was supposed to replace the ewelink cloud and control devices in LAN mode. But over the year it still has a lot of bugs and each update adds different bugs. No Sonoff device can be 100% smart home center.
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You are perfectly right.
All iHost users are free to decide if it is worth the effort or at some point they will reach the same conclusion that I reached.
I was extremely enthusiastic from the moment I found out about the iHost project, especially since I opted for Sonoff devices and when I found out about iHost I was just studying the possible solutions. I opted for iHost, instead of raspberry pi 4. Now I regret that I wasted a lot of time pointlessly for a project that, if it continues like this, is doomed to failure.
Personally, from tomorrow I will stop your iHost, I will place it in the farthest part of the house, so that I don’t have access to it even if I want to :).
For me, the iHost project is dead and no longer exists!
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I have both a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant and an iHost. The Pi 4 is only a little better. Maybe a different operating system would be less hassle… A lot depends on what types of device end up iHost Matter Bridging. The RP matter support is only as a hub from everything I’ve read. This makes sense given all the potential different types of device on Home Assistant. If they sort out matter bridging so it works well with lots of useful devices it could make up for the problems. I think the aim is for the iHost to be a simpler home assistant at only a bit more expensive (and once you add an RP case, 3 amp power supply, a Zigbee/matter dongle it isn’t that much more comparing basic to basic) but currently it fails at being simpler because it lacks some essential features, like back ups. Most of the complaints can be overcome but if you want to be simpler it makes no sense to make people jump through hoops.
Pretty sure the NS Panel Pro runs Android. If an android phone can use LAN mode I doubt it could not. Tasmota runs locally, usually over mqtt, so if it doesn’t use LAN mode currently it should do.
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