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HOOBS 4 Out Now
The entire HOOBS core has been rebuilt from the ground up on a new, extensible architecture which allows an easier deployment and modular, independent upgrades of components. Many enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented based on all the feedback we received from you.
Overall System Improvements
Performance Upgrades
Major improvements were done on the UI speed and accessory control. Accessory state now instantly reflects in the HOOBS dashboard when controlled from an outside source. Memory usage has been massively reduced making HOOBS lightning fast!
1 Plugin per Bridge
When installing a plugin you have the option to spawn a new bridge or add it to an existing bridge. Running a single plugin per bridge ensures stability for all other accessories in case a plugin misbehaves.
Encrypted Backups
Your entire HOOBS 4 system can be backed up and restored from the Hub Settings in the top right menu. The backup files are encrypted for secure storage on your computer. Backups are lightning fast and a fraction of the size compared to HOOBS 3.
Recovery Terminal
Tired of having to SSH into HOOBS if something goes wrong and you get locked out? You can now access an independent terminal at this address and simply reset your device: http://hoobs.local:9090
System and Node Updates from the User Interface
No more manual updates of any dependencies using the terminal. Each HOOBS component now runs independent of eachother which allows updating the Server, Interface and System directly from the UI.
Plugins and Community improvements
New Plugin Library
A redesigned plugin page which allows you to browse available plugins by different criteria and categories. Plugin reviews from the community help you select the best ones. Version swapping in one click is also available.
More Certified Plugins
With HOOBS 3 we released the new configuration schema which enabled code free configuration for a lot of plugins. Many of them have now been certified and will soon be featured on the plugins page. If you have a suggestion for a plugin certification please let us know.
You can now export every individual bridge with all its plugins and configurations from the bridges page. This can be used to mirror migrate your bridges to another HOOBS device or to share particular setups and configurations with the community and developers.
User Interface enhancements
Cameras! All of them!
Get a full view of your home directly in your HOOBS Dashboard. All cameras added via the camera-ffmpeg plugin as well as Ring and Nest cams will now be displayed in the HOOBS accessories. Snapshots and snapshot streaming is available by default for all cameras. Supported cameras can toggle live stream from the camera accessory settings.
Simple, Filtered Log
No more trying to dechiper thousands of lines of logs to find what you’re looking for. Logs can now be filtered by plugin, by bridge or by system. Debug log is toggled off by default. This keeps the log clean and only outputs important information.
Code Free Configuration
HOOBS 4 provides full configuration schema support for all plugins that offer it. This enables easy configuration with no manual JSON entry.
Dashboard Widgets
Each accessory is now an individual widget. Additional system widgets are also available. Build your own dashboard just the way you like it by drag & dropping and resizing each widget freely.
Custom Accessory Icons
Personalization just got better. You can now choose from a list of over a thousand icons to assign to each one of your static accessories.
Infinite Personalization
Your home, your theme. Choose one of the template themes or generate your own by uploading your favorite background image. HOOBS will automatically pick the best colors to go along with your image.
Desktop Apps
MacOS Application
A web UI is nice and practical, but you know what’s even nicer? Not having to deal with browser issues, router incompatiblities with the .local domain or having to find the local IP address of your HOOBS. Automatic discovery of your device takes care of all that.
Windows Application
If your operating system of choice is Windows, we’ve got you covered too! The app gives you full control over your HOOBS device without the need of a browser. This also brings control of your smart home into Windows, a first in the home automation industry!
06.07.2021
HOOBS 4 Beta testing program
Many of you have been impatiently waiting for this. The HOOBS 4 Beta Program is now open for registration! If you’d like to get access to HOOBS 4 before everyone else and help us make it better, please register at the link below. You will receive more details about every stage of the program by email.
18.03.2021
CERTIFIED PLUGINS
Hello Community, we are working on the Plugin certifications and we like to know which Plugins you are using right now, and you didn’t had any issue with installation and configuration.
– Please vote or add to the poll for Plugins that works.
– Post comment for Plugins you like to see certified and you had issues with installing or configuration.
eg. “homebridge-pluginname: manual config needed”
Thanks for sharing this information, this help us making HOOBS even better and userfriendlier for all
#STAYHOME AND #GETSMART
HOOBS in a Box – FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
We noticed an increase in demand for our products and support recently, as many of you are stuck at home or self isolating. We want to encourage people to stay home and work on their home automation which is why we are providing a discount for the time being. Rest assured that all of our team members are currently working from home. We have added multiple shipping locations around the world and we are working closely with shipping carriers to ensure delivery all over the world.
LET’S BUILD A COMMUNITY DRIVEN KNOWLEDGE BASE
Hello HOOBS community let’s build a community driven Knowledge Base for installing and config plugins the right way. Anyone running HOOBS is warmly welcome to contribute and share their knowledge to the community on how to get plugins run properly.
Here is the Knowledge Base and when u scroll down on the Knowledge Base you will find the submission form: https://hoobs.org/knowledgebase/ Let’s build an amazing community driven knowledge base to help the community and all homebridge users.
MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HOOBS
This year will end soon and we would like to give you a little summary of what we accomplished so far and a sneek peak of what is coming next year. We want to thank you for all your Support this year! We are proud to have such an large base of happy users of our software, sdcards and boxes.
Right now we have over 15k HOOBS users out there and the community is growing by about 100 users day by day. After starting on 26th of February 2019 releasing v1.0 image file, by one single guy called Bobby Slope, our Team grew fast and we are now a team of 5 Ovidiu Mija (Chief Development and Sales NA) Michael Kellsy ( Senior Developer of HOOBS 3) Ron Polenthon ( mobile Developer / Homemanager App) Cici Tran ( Customer Relations / Assembly) Bobby Slope ( CEO and Sales Europe). We also want to thank you for all the issue reports and feature requests. We will implement them step by step in the future updates.
We are also proud of the Community on Subreddit r/HOOBS and HOOBS Support Group on Facebook is growing as well, and users start to help each other. That was exactly the meaning of these platforms.
We now also have 9 HOOBS Certified Plugins, and more will come soon. We are looking back at the beginning of all this and its not yet a year since we started and HOOBS has already made a big impact on the DIY smart home world. Looking forward to 2020 there are so many things we’d like to integrate in order to give you more possibilities with HOOBS. Here are some that we’re really excited about:
HOOBS ID Registering your Device Automated Issue Report directly in the User interface Integrated Remote Support for HOOBS technicians. Community Remote Support
HOOBS+ Remote Access to HOOBS for all over the World Automations/ Timers/Sunrise/Sunset and Scenes directly in HOOBS (without 3rd Party like ATV) Video/Camera solution incl. Video Storage and Encoding for multiple Cameras with fast streaming
We want to say Thank You for all the Support this Year and looking towards an amazing 2020! We will try our best to keep offering timely support on all channels during Holidays. Have a good Time, merry Xmas and a happy new year!
INTRODUCING HOOBS 3
HOOBS 3 – OUT NOW!
- New User Interface
- Redesigned Accessory Controls
- System Backup Including Plugins#
- System Restore with Plugins
- Encrypted Backup Files
- Factory Reset
- Build-in Weather Forecasts
- Guided Configuration with Validation
- Nice new Themes
- Less JSON Editing
- Remote Support with HOOBS Cockpit
- Increase Allowed Accessories
- Performance Optimisations
All information about HOOBS 3 and how to upgrade now on https://hoobs.org
HOOBS V3.0.0 BETA RELEASE
We are ready to test the Beta for HOOBS v3 (Homebridge out of the Box Version 3.0.0)
If you want to take part in the beta testing of Version 3.0.0 you can install it or make an upgrade following the instructions here: WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR SDCARD AND/OR AT LEAST YOUR CONFIG FILE WE GRANT NO WARRANTY THAT YOUR SETUP WORKS PERFECTLY AFTER UPGRADE / MIGRATION – ITS A BETA!
FIRST BOOT AFTER MIGRATION OR UPGRADE TAKES 3-10 MINUTES TO SETUP NEW VERSION – BE PATIENT
Enhancements of Version 3.0.0 Beta:
HOOBS Setup / Update and Migration Assistant
Plugin for HOOBS v2.1.1 to upgrade to HOOBS Version 3.0.0 Beta
Search for Plugin: Homebridge to Hoobs Migration Utility
Upgrade your HOOBS directly with the HOOBS Upgrade Utility for Homebridge
Easy Upgrade from any HOOBS Version (without reflashing SD and no HomeKit reset) v1.0/v1.0/v2.0.0/v2.1.0/v2.1.1
Easy Migration from any existing Homebridge Setup (without reflashing SD and no HomeKit reset)
incl. Plugins and Config
HOOBS Core
Complete UI redesign, entirely recoded in vueJS and Node
UI Responsive (Mobile / Tablet / Desktop)
Advanced Homebridge controlls: Start, Stop and Restart, Help link, Resetting, Clearing Cache.
Welcome Dashboard incl. Actual Weather information, Weather forecast, Favorite Accessories,
System Health (CPU/RAM/MEMORY) with Detection of Hardware and OS that HOOBS is running on)
HOOBS Certified Plugins
Search of Certified Plugins / Non Certified Installation also Possible (for the Tinkerers)
Seamless integration of Plugin Installation / Config process without JSON Editing
NPM Namespace @HOOBS/[plugin] for certified Plugins (all Plugins Dev can use this as soon as their Plugin works with HOOBS Automated Config)
Certified Plugins comes with V3.0.0 Beta
@HOOBS/Wink https://github.com/hoobs-org/homebridge-wink/blob/master/README.md
@HOOBS/Nest https://github.com/hoobs-org/homebridge-nest
@HOOBS/Chamberlain https://github.com/hoobs-org/homebridge-chamberlain/blob/master/README.md
@HOOBS/Google Home https://github.com/hoobs-org/homebridge-google/blob/master/README.md
Issue Reporting for Beta Testers directly on Github: https://github.com/hoobs-org/HOOBS/issues
Thank you for helping us make the Homebridge experience better, day by day.
Plugin developers
To get more information on how to get your plugin HOOBS certified, please
contact us via email at [email protected]
TRANSLATE FOR HOOBS VERSION 3.0.0
Hello together we need some help in translation of the new HOOBS version coming.
If you like to Help us translating Please send us an Email with subject: Translation, your Language, Your name to [email protected] and we invite you to the translation system.
Thank you so much for your help!
HOOBS SDCARD IMAGE UPDATED TO V2.1.1
The HOOBS – Homebridge out of the Box IMG-File got updated to the newest Raspbian Buster Lite version.
[New] Based on Raspbian Buster Lite (2019-07-10)
If you have HOOBS installed already, you don’t need to Update.
This Update is only for new Users of the Free SD Card Image.
Updates for existing Users will be displayed at the UI itself. You don’t have to reflash your SD Card and Install everything from scratch
You can Download the SD Card Image on https://hoobs.org
HOOBS 1.0 – Release
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