# Poll results: What do you think of Gladys Assistant 4? **URL:** \ **Category:** Actualités\ **Created:** [October 22, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622 "2021-10-22T08:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/1 "2021-10-22T08:50:40Z")
Hello everyone! I posted a survey two weeks ago ([J'ai besoin de vous : Que penses-tu de Gladys Assistant 4?](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/jai-besoin-de-vous-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6578)) to get your opinion on Gladys and understand what prevents some of you from upgrading to v4! As usual, I’m posting the results here so everyone can benefit from them (I’ve anonymized the responses). For the multiple-choice questions: **The Gladys Assistant website** The site ([gladysassistant.com](https://gladysassistant.com/fr)) seems to please you, and I’m glad because it took us a lot of time! It’s a new site based on Docusaurus, with quite complete, light, and easy-to-consult documentation. ![Screenshot 2021-10-22 at 16.27.26](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8f5ab7ab21c71c4616583b500ad58aa76808b12f.png) **The Gladys 4 installation process** Regarding the installation, as you can see, the v4 installation process seems quite simple to understand for everyone. A few people had difficulties, but it’s far from the norm. v3 is far behind us on this one 😃 ![Screenshot 2021-10-22 at 16.27.35](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d73ff0e3ec49f9f2d5b0edba360abb46c03b809f.png) **Integrations** This is where the survey becomes interesting. The most used integrations are naturally those used in all installations (Telegram, OpenWeather). Then, we find Cameras, MQTT, Z-Wave, and Zigbee2mqtt. ![Screenshot 2021-10-22 at 16.27.42](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a237160d6092e43c983e25c4ac699f8bd42c2ce8.png) But where it gets interesting is that many of you haven’t yet upgraded to v4 because it’s not yet compatible with the devices you use: ![Screenshot 2021-10-22 at 16.27.48](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5b04bc12c1000542ffa0d3fb6da7e1acc05d673c.png) I did a small analysis on the most cited integrations in the responses: ![Screenshot 2021-10-22 at 16.36.46](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6484e34443884b09d8d58271a3862cf7fd8a0386.png) Z-Wave seems to be the integration that causes the most frustration currently, and I’m not surprised: the current integration is partial, and unfortunately, as we haven’t had a developer in the last year, many devices are not supported. But this is changing as we have new contributors trying a migration to ZWaveJS =\> [https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/v4-integration-z-wave/6057/60](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/v4-integration-z-wave/6057/60) For many of you, I recommended my latest video that talks about the Node-RED \<\> Gladys integration and which allows you to use Node-RED to compensate for Gladys 4’s shortcomings for now: [![](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c9a7666ab602efb9151f7867a98cb81dffa0add5.jpeg "Intégrer Node-RED avec Gladys Assistant en MQTT") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpmHzR8_S5g) **Full results** The complete survey results with responses are available here: > **[Résultat Sondage Gladys Assistant Octobre 2021](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F555_Ebl_qYlHRVzW9It6kMfLluLf35fHoD1HeitnLU/edit?usp=sharing)** > > This Sheet is private **Conclusion** Thank you to everyone who provided their responses; that’s what allows us to progress 🙏 What I take away is that the Gladys 4 product pleases many, but the integrations are not yet complete enough to attract everyone. The developer documentation could be better expanded to encourage more developers to join us; I’ll try to work on this point in the coming weeks. I’m even thinking of doing a live coding YouTube session to show you how to create a Gladys Assistant 4 integration 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lmilcent](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/lmilcent/32/7023_2.png) [@lmilcent](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/lmilcent)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/2 "2021-10-24T05:29:16Z")
> [@pierre-gilles](#): > > I even think of doing a live coding YouTube to show you how to do a Gladys Assistant 4 integration 🙂 That’s a great idea! I’m interested. It will help to get started more easily with the development of a service. Can you cover the part about using the devices used on the Raspberry? For example, how to develop a service that would use the USB Zigbee adapter? ---
**Author:** ![VonOx](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/vonox/32/10128_2.png) [@VonOx](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/VonOx)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/3 "2021-10-24T11:05:10Z")
There’s already an integration, but I’m not sure it will help as the code is already there Could it be Gpio? ---
**Author:** ![lmilcent](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/lmilcent/32/7023_2.png) [@lmilcent](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/lmilcent)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/4 "2021-10-24T11:57:50Z")
Yes, why not. Actually, the idea was to show how to use equipment only available on the rpi with dev versions, including the setup, organization, etc. ---
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/5 "2021-10-25T01:31:26Z")
> [@lmilcent](#): > > The idea was actually to show how to use equipment only available on the rpi with development versions, with the setup, organization, etc. In this case, this is something that is really very, very rare. Apart from the GPIO, there is nothing unique to the Raspberry Pi. All the integrations we have currently are developed on our laptops: - A Zigbee USB key works just as well on a Pi as on any other machine. You can run Zigbee2mqtt locally on your machine with a local Mosquitto broker on your development machine. - Same for Z-Wave. I plug a [Z-Wave.me](http://Z-Wave.me) into my Mac and it is recognized and works perfectly with Gladys. - Otherwise, the rest (camera, Xiaomi, etc.), everything works on any machine. So, I have the impression that what you are asking for is more of a special case than the norm (and in this case, it should be done on a case-by-case basis), since this case has never occurred to my knowledge 😃 In any case, my recommendation is to develop on your development machine. No one develops on the Pi to my knowledge (The Pi can be used in the testing phase of course, but after that it’s via Docker images, no more different than a classic installation). ---
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/resultat-du-sondage-que-penses-tu-de-gladys-assistant-4/6622/6 "2021-10-25T05:15:51Z")
> [@lmilcent](#): > > This is a very good idea! I’m in for it, it will make it easier to start developing a service. It will be Thursday! > [@Live coding: Développer une intégration Gladys Assistant 4 ce jeudi 28 octobre à 9h30 sur YouTube!](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/live-coding-developing-a-gladys-assistant-4-integration-this-thursday-october-28th-at-9:30-am-on-youtube/6629): > > Salut à tous ! Vous êtes nombreux à demander à ce que je fasse un live coding pour vous montrer comment développer une intégration sous Gladys Assistant 4, et bien c’est maintenant programmé ! On se retrouve ce jeudi 28 octobre à 9h30 sur YouTube ici arrow_down[[Live coding: Développer une intégration pour Gladys Assistant 4] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCN8vAOI18) Si vous avez des questions que vous vous posez dès maintenant, n’hésitez pas à les poser dans ce topic avant le live pour que j’y réponde lors de ce live …