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Controller selection matrix

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Not being very happy with Domoticz for various reasons, I'd like to chose a new controller.
However, I'm baffled by the number of them and by the amount of information available about them. It is not possible to read all the fora about all the controllers to figure out which one suits my personal needs best.

Would it be possible to have a page on the website with a matrix of properties of the controllers ? If the structure is made by the website people, the content can be filled in by the community.

Things I would be interested in are
- Functional features
- In what language the controller is written
- What API's are supported
- What scripting languages are supported
- Configuration user-friendliness
- Operation user-friendliness
- What OS-ses will it run on
- How wide and active is the supporting community
- Open-sourced or not
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@Feliw05 Selecting the "right" controller is of course a matter of opinion and depends how far you want to go into the homeautomation swamp . Normally i don't give advice like this (and i agree with @mfalkvidd - It's great to discuss with a friend!) but here a my 2 cents... I think i've tried them all in the table but i always return to 2 alternatives: homeassistant and domoticz. If you want the fastest way to get started with good trend charts i still think Domoticz is a great choise. The UI is not the prettiest (even if you can fix that by setting up custom dashboards like dashticz or so) but it's very functional and i think it has a good default setup with trendlines per sensor for day/month/year using highcharts. I have a few weather station systems running remote and then i use domoticz in docker containers on off site servers (but i've also had it running on rasberry PIs). Very light weight. Another alternative (maybe obvious) is homeassistant but it might be a bit overwelming since it's very flexible and can be run in so many different ways so you will find tons of howtos that doesn't work anymore. It has a very active community that isn't afraid of changing core concepts when needed which is both a strength and sometimes a weakness. For my personal homeautomation i have moved over completely to homeassistant and it's possible to create beautiful dashboards with little effort. Is has integrations for more or less everything and if not there will be soon or you can add it yourself. Example dashboard that i have in the house with car heating/charging, cameras and tons of sensors and zigbee devices. Actually used and appretiated by everyone in the house It's a bumpier ride at least at first but i think homeassistant wins in the long run - and it's open source!
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