Complete Waste of Time – openHAB Review

Good luck ever getting this to work. It's the usual incompetent hack put together by FOSS types, and utterly uninterested in usability. You can't do anything in the app till you register at their web site. After poking around their for fifteen minutes you'll eventually find what looks like a registration page except in addition to the usual email/password info it wants you to supply a "shared secret" and a "UUID" -- and good luck knowing what it expects either of those to be. Once you get past that hurdle, you can log in via the iOS app? Oh no. Apparently you now need to configure some URLs in the app. After making various guesses as to what these were, I was rewarded, on each attempt, with sme sort of failure message. At this point I gave up and concluded that life was really too short to deal with these people any longer.
Review by Maynard Handley on openHAB.