DrLumen

FWIW. Same here. Good to know it is not just me. Misery loves company and all... 😕

One thing to keep in mind is that humming is not always a property of the bulb. Zero crossing dimmers that do not have chokes will cause bulbs to hum. Back when I was doing stage lighting I found that using cheap dimmers would make the high wattage bulbs not just hum but SING.

Hell, a few years back, the little C7 night lights were drawing 7 watts. Now LED's can light a room with 7 watts.

I got the cheap generic (probably chinese) LED bulbs and have no real issues with them. They don't smoothly dim from about 5% to off or from on but no flickers or hum that I have noticed.

Just for a +1, the total fan run time would be better for determining filter changes. All the cloud stuff bothers me too. I have a similar issue with my solar inverter data. It is all stored in the cloud. While it does prevent needing to store all the data locally (which I still do), one never knows when that cloud may evaporate due to company bankruptcies or mergers or ...

Cool. That is from the cloud?

I haven't found any tracking info that is exposed or documented; yet. It has various filter change reminders that you can set for x run time days or months so it has to be tracking run time at some level. It also has what they call an automatic recovery to anticipate run times based on temperature deltas. So, they have to be calculating some type of temp rise/drop coefficients but again nothing documented other than they have it. There are registers that they call ISU's that range from 120 to 1425 but only document about 60. I have tired querying others and get values back but no way to know what they represent. As I just got it I'm working on getting it set up and integrated and have not had time to start hacking or looking into some undocumented stuff yet. It supports 3H/2C. I'm using it for a heat pump system so based on what options are selected the trees change as you drill down into the settings. It should be able to handle 2 stage gas (fossil) heat but I can't promise it. Here is a link to the owners manual for the wifi version. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.supplyhouse.com/product_files/Honeywell-TH6320WF2003-Install-Instructions.pdf

I recently replaced mine with a Honeywell TH6320ZW2003/U. It is local and ISY sees some of the common settings in the admin console. It also has a web phone app. I don't use it so I cant comment there. It allows setting the low and high set points but they are still limited to 50/90 at min/max. Still trying to get the hang of using it from Alexa. So far I don't like that part but maybe after I get the hang of it. I really like the backlight setting (from a config call). The backlight can be off during the day and at levels 1-5 at night. They have them as dumb, ZWave (mine) Wifi and Lyric. Not sure about Zigbee.

Next week is the use of arrays and pointers. Oops, not in ISY - nevermind.

If it works for you without variables and you don't ever see that the conditions or actions will be 'variable' then what you have is best. No need to over complicate things. FYI, you are already using variables. The descriptions you are making for your motion sensors and switches are technically variables. They change to on/off (Boolean true/false or 1/0). Can hold changing integer values like levels. And in some cases hold floating point values, perhaps like temperature. The only real difference is you can change the values for the variables you create instead of them being tied to the status of a device. You don't have to send them to a device (ie levels) to change them.

Maybe if you were exposed to different ways of using variables. ISY is very limited as it tries to make it simple and idiot proof so they have it locked down. In a way it keeps it safer but sometimes causes many more steps than are necessary in other languages. In the hopes this will make more sense. Other programming languages have some form of For loops (among many other things). they are like this (in basic) total=0 'reminder that the next line is the beginning of the loop For count=1 to 5 total=total+count Next count 'end of loop total will equal 15 This will go from For to Next 5 times. At each time through the loop (iteration) it adds the current count value to the total so the first time the count will be 1 and the total will be 1. 2nd time through the loop, count is 2 and the total is now 3 (1+2). 3rd time through and the count is 3 and the total is now 6 (1+2+3). 4th time the count is 4 and the total is 10. 5th time the count is 5 and the total is 15. Note that the total was set to 0 initially but could be any value. If total=10 at the start, at the end of the 5 cycles the total would be 25. Not sure if this helps or makes it more confusing... PS: Found a bug

It depends on what you are wanting it to do. Yes the last line will set the level back to the whatever value it found on the right side of the = in line 3. If all you want is to return it to whatever it was @ line 3 then the next to last line is not needed. But, personally, I flash the certain lights for various things throughout the day so I'm not sure if the next to last line was intentional. Line 4 is kinda questionable as well but maybe 'ON' will be at different levels. If it is on, why do you want to turn it on again in line 4? No damage, just overkill.

Ok. If it was on @ line 3 then it will return to that with the last line. In this instance, and that is the action you want, then the next to last line is redundant as it is immediately countermanded to whatever is stored in the variable. Unless you want it to flash off then back on?

Depends on the initial value of $lamp.level1% from the 3rd line (1st of then). It could turn it back on if it was not 0%.

Back on point... I don't know of a way to comment variables other than in the programs. I just try to create variable names that are fairly obvious. Then, in 6 months I wonder what the hell they mean,

Variables allow some flexibility in your programs. For example, say you have 4 bath exhaust fans that you want to run for 10 minutes whenever the bath light is turned on. You could write 4 separate programs that state something like if light is switched on set bath exhaust timer for 10 minutes. If you want to change that 10 minutes to say 20 you would have to go in and change each of the 4 programs to 20. Or, you can define a variable, say, as 10 and replace the hard coded 10's in your 4 bath exhaust fan programs to the variable name. If you want to change it to 20 later you would only need to change that time variable to 20 and it would automatically be replaced in your programs wherever is it used. You could also change that time variable by another program if you wanted and it would be in effect for your bath fan timers.

The dots are really bassy too. I have them set with the bass ~off and the treble to full but still not good.

Is it possible to get a status directly from Alexa? When I ask if the Lava Lamp is on, I get a "device does not support this" type of message from Alexa. Am I missing something or is that kind of message truly not supported?

ATMOSphere I guess huh?. More for ambience than source. I had a 5.1 JVC amp back when... Music also sounded good through it too. I'm not sure what they did but there was some separation of instruments (or likely harmonics) from front to back that gave a really cool surround effect with standard stereo CD's. It was lost in a burglary though. The lowlife bastiges!

If the RTA actually works then that should compensate for different issues. I have had different 5.1 - 7.2 systems in the past and yes the realism at times can be surprising. A few years ago we got on a minimalist, KISS type bent and got rid of all that and a lot of other stuff. We have the TV and a yamaha soundbar and sub for the living room and that's it. I have a standing honeydo to hang them from the ceiling and I'll do that eventually. I thought I would miss the surround but it turned out ok. There are still times when it sounds like things are happening in other parts of the house. IMO, music through it sucks but the war dept doesn't care about that as much as I do. Luckily, when I want to listen to music outside of the headphones I have my near field studio monitors in the office/studio. She won't be prying those out of my hands anytime soon!

Shelf looks nice. As to speaker placement and aiming, it is more dependent on speaker design than any encoding. For example, designated bookshelf speakers are intended to be used in an environment with a high Reflection factor. Regardless, high frequencies are easily lost. Speaker tweeters should be directed at the listeners without any type of reflection. Reflections could also cause some delays, dead spots and potential phasing effects. If that is what you want and you like that effect then so be it. Unless Atmos (I'm not familiar with all the specs there) is cranking the highs, the HF reflections should be minimized. If they are cranking the high frequencies then they are coloring the sound beyond what is typical. That will affect music listening. Personal preference and YMMV...

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I've been thinking about getting one of those Kreg jigs. See them advertised on TV a lot. I want to get a router too but the end of the game is getting close here too.

That would make sense as to the instant status patent. They must have let it lapse. From what I can tell the original zwave patent still has 8 years. But with each new version, like 500 now, I think they can get new patents for the enhancements basically/theoretically extending the original patent. All they would have to do is not license the making of the chips which would force everyone to their door. (geez i hope they aren't reading this and getting any ideas). This is likely why they are cornering the market. This is what I saw. "...with the addition of Z-Wave, all of the short-range IoT connectivity options are together under one roof. This means manufacturers looking to develop smart home security can use Silicon Labs as a one-stop-shop for all their shortwave IoT solutions." Since they bought Sygma, it would be hard to believe they didn't get the intellectual property to zwave. Not that I am looking forward to it but it wouldn't entirely bother me to dump some of this buggy stuff and start over. Why do I get the feeling this is going the way of tech change like CD/DVD/BluRay or ISA/EISA/PCI/PCI-E?

The thing that concerns me is that it looks like they own a lot of the close/near RF technologies. They could stranglehold any or almost all to push whichever is most profitable for them. I have to believe that at some point they will want to simplify their product lines. I guess we'll see.