You can turn the encryption off if you are comfortable with the network you’re storing your backups on. The encryption is a good idea for people using cloud backups, but I’m not sure it’s necessary for backups on, say, my internal server.

Yeah this was a feature they enabled by default for everyone a while back. When people complained, the True Believers told everyone they should have read the release notes. I think the developers undid the encryption by default option, but there are a lot of people out there with encrypted backups as a result of the change, and some of them have no idea.

I did read that her constituents support her over Trump, so it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.

I do hope she was serious when she acknowledged her own role in promoting political violence and does change her ways. But I’m skeptical that it’ll stick. We’ll see.

I have to admit, I forgot about the Zigbee part when I replied.

The S31 Lite, which uses Zigbee, is supported by Tasmota. However they have a max current draw of 5 amps and don’t do power monitoring like the regular Wifi S31. I haven’t used the S31 Lite, so I can’t speak to how the pairing works or other details.

I have a bunch of S31 plugs from Sonoff, flashed with Tasmota.

In Tasmota, you can set it to default to on and ignore the button. In fact I’m not sure if I can even turn it off via the HA interface without changing an option in Tasmota.

I have this set for several plugs - fridge, freezer, pellet stove, sump pump, etc. No issues with any of them, and some are a few years old. I think I even have the switch on the washer’s plug disabled, too.

I gave up pretty quickly on trying to name things. Early on I was having a lot of issues with zigbee, and I frequently had to reconnect things, and renaming them into my scheme got to be another step I just didn’t want to bother with. It felt like a waste of time.

A better use of time was fixing the zigbee issues (wifi interference - fixed that, and now the network is solid). But now I don’t really ever need to worry about the device names, so, eh.

I use a helper for some entities. For example, the temperature sensors that come in via rtl_433 that rename every time I put new batteries in, or my phone or my wife’s phone. That way I only have to change the helper, in one place, versus having to change it in countless scripts, scenes, buttons, etc.

Finally updated my setup to 10.11 today. I did the recommended backups, but I didn’t have any issues! How long before it’s safe to delete them?

Thanks. I knew there was something. The HomeKit setup actually sounds better, maybe I should switch.

I like our ecobee overall, especially for being able to specify which thermometers to focus on for a given setting.

But there are some things that I wish were easier. For example, my work days vary, so it’d be nice if it was easier to specify a work day versus a home day in advance, without having to change the schedule.

Eyeing up those Z-wave thermostats though…

I have an ecobee too (and have for about 8 years), but I thought I heard that new ecobee users couldn’t get the access that HA uses.

Now he is pushing for tariffs against Russia. And he finally seems to be figuring out that Putin doesn’t want to stop trying to conquer Ukraine…a point the rest of the world understood immediately…years ago.

With a good router, it’s not that hard to do. But even then it took me a long time to get around to setting up the separate network, and I don’t think I’ve migrated all of my devices over to it still (some got moved, new ones go there, but there are some older devices still sitting on the original network). So, yeah, there’s definitely extra effort, and it’s not really fun like getting that new smart device integrated. I will say the stuff on that network works perfectly - I haven’t noticed any side effects.

Oh I did allow them access to the pool ntp server so they can pick up the correct time, and some require temporary access to the internet while setting up (the linknlink RF device needed it to download the Home assistant version of their firmware, for example).

The new Ross Perot!

I saw an analysis of results in deep-blue Arizona cities where there were quite a few people who voted for Trump…then Democrat down the rest of the ballot.

It’s not hard evidence, but it’s suspicious. The problem the US has is that the winners are quite okay with winning at any cost and don’t see a problem, even if the win was stolen.

Anyone remember Ross Perot? He created the Tea Party, which eventually took over the Republican party.