Home Buddy is a fantastic app. The integration with Tasker makes for killer automation!!!
I'm not sure if the issue regarding a need for a full refresh has been solved. I'm using Home Buddy widgets as an easy means of activating certain things, and they appear to fail once every week or two. The reason being is the need to go into Home Buddy to do a full refresh. I'm not convinced that it's due to configuration changes insisting on a full refresh. It sometimes appears to occur unpredictably.
I will also post this in the Tasker integration forum, but if Home Buddy seems to require a refresh periodically, can an intent message cause Home Buddy to do this, say... on a schedule? Or even better, is there a way to have Home Buddy run as a service, such that it updates on it's own?
Thanks!