Fibaro HC3 Review Suitable for the beginner or the commercial expert. I have just replaced my seven year old Vera Edge z-wave hub with a Fibaro Home Center 3, having also tried for a week to move to a Hubitat Elevation C-8. The Vera had served me reasonably well, supporting door switches that allowed me to be emailed when they opened, a sensor wired into my existing door bell, flood sensors, 3in1 sensors, two electric Somfy blinds and half a dozen plug adapters for lights, chargers and the Christmas tree. But, its app wasn’t very rich, notifications were limited and whilst the logic setup was GUI driven, it was limited. I wanted a ‘better’ app with dashboard, a better windows dash, better GUI logic builder, more flexible notifications. I did not want to be messing around with code for drivers, nor to be reliant on others in the community for these. My recent week long experience with the Hubitat involved too much hacking about to find / install community written drivers for my Fibaro door switches and my Fibaro roller shutter switch for the blinds. Its rule builder was good but I found the dashboard to be uninspiring. The alerting via the app was decent but I would have needed to hack about to get email support on top of the push alerts. I therefore moved on to the HC3. It is twice the price of other hubs but I have found it four times easier and more fun than the others so if you can afford it… 2/3 of my devices are Fibaro, undoubtedly it is good to be within one family. The others, plug modules and sirens did all include easily and work fine. I like: Logic builder is GUI driven and easy. But, I can see the LUA script if I wish to. Alerting is a simple matter of ticking a box and includes a push to ipad and phone as well as email. Icons are easily changed and there are plenty of alternatives on the forums. Icons include more than on/off status within them, eg battery life, last activation. I can change device parameters via the GUI. Useful when I don’t always fully understand what I’m doing when following instructions from the forums. I have had no reliability issues in my first few weeks. I like the idea of the hub supporting Zigbee and z-wave. Support for zigbee may be weaker but I haven’t had to cross that bridge and will continue to focus on z-wave if I can. Vesternet: Over seven years, I have bought all of my kit from Vesternet and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them. They have given good advice and been responsive. Prices have been competitive but even if they were a few pounds out, I’d want to maintain the relationship.