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Avoid at all costs.
Avoid at all costs. I've had a fibaro HC2 for probably 10 years. I bought one after learning about Z-Wave and its promise for advanced home automation. It was unusual in its ability to send two-way communications and create a mesh network. This sounded brilliant. I invested hundreds and hundreds of £s in the system. Some of it sort of worked, but it was difficult to do anything useful with and Fibaro was always very slow in supporting products other than their own - and you need them to implement support in their controller for other devices to work. I really wanted this product and eco system to work but in truth, Fibaro turned me off z-wave and despite spending many, many hours trying to get a Fibaro home automation network running on their flagship Home Centre 2 to work, in the end I just gave up and left the system to slowly deteriorate over time, reverting back to either manual control over devices or, as new options became available, such as Alexa and Philips Hue, I moved over to them. Now years later, after forgetting the previous pain of trying to use Fibaro, I went and purchased some new devices with the intention of getting the automation aspect of the house back in shape. Big mistake, several more wasted days and more wasted money. The system, even after all these years of development time, is still and difficult to use, flakey mess. It just can't do even basic home automation stuff reliably, it can't keep track of its own sensors and it only really achieves the exact opposite of what you want from home automation - hours of frustrated wasted time trying to get it to work.