I switched to Athom Homey in October 2019, and so far I'm very happy with Homey as a controller. Even if it is very basic, it is rock solid, reliable and very user friendly.
Please let me know if you have ideas of simpler way to do things.
My goal is 99% automation, and very little user interactions, and keeping the setup as simple as possible to make it more reliable.
Here is the overall architecture of my most of my automations.
Here is my reccomended steps to getting started
Setup logic variables for presence - Person presence
Add a guest virtual device, and setup an aggregated logic for home
And now you are ready to sew everything together with Scene activations
Test each step independently by inspecting the logic view on your phone.
Good luck!
I decided to go for the built-in logic variables. I prefer to not depend on third party apps when not needed. Better logic could probably serve me better, there is a few features that would help me. The most interesting one would be a when trigger that detects when one of multiple variables has changed.