Clean-up possibly unintended consequence

[HAL9000]

Continuing the discussion from Community Clean-Up!:

Hmmm .. it has been de facto practice for community developed apps and drivers to have a single dedicated thread where all questions and issues regarding it can be discussed in one place. This seems desirable to me.

I note that these threads are being closed even if they have current activity because they were originally created some time ago. Would it not be better to allow these to remain open if they were still active, @bobbyD ?

[bobbyD]

@HAL9000

these threads are being closed even if they have current activity

The current effort has been to only close threads in the Get Help category that are older than 1 year. I agree that (some/all?) community developed apps and drivers threads should stay open. If any of these were miscategorized and they were posted in the Get Help category, please send me the links to these threads. I can move them into appropiate Custom Apps and Drivers category and then reopen them.

[HAL9000]

Ah, I see. The underlying issue is that the topic was created in Get Help rather than Community Apps and Drivers. Here's an example. It seemed like there a quite a few more.

Sendmail - Send email and text notifications, (notification device) no local server needed

Designed to be used to send email to your Phone carriers email to text gateway to enable you to get text messges from hubitat. But also can be used for any emailing as well. It is actually installed as a device not an app, It does need a server to gateway your email through like your isp, etc. It will show up as a native notification device. Create one device for every sendmail (email:to) endpoint that you want as a notification device. NOTE: does NOT work if the email server your are go…

[bobbyD]

@HAL9000

Here's an example

Thank you. I took care of that one.

[bfara83]

OpenWeatherMap-Alerts-Weather-Driver

OpenWeatherMap-Alerts Weather Driver UPDATE - 12/01/2020: You now can choose either OWM or weather.gov as the source for Weather Alerts. weather.gov only provides alerts for the United States while OWM provides global weather alerts (see link below). UPDATE - 10/20/2020: OpenWeatherMap now provides global weather alerts. As of version V0.2.8 this driver uses OWM for all of it's data and no longer polls weather.gov (NWS) for weather alerts. This means that weather alerts are available from…

Here another example that may need moved and reopened.

[bobbyD]

@bfara83

need moved and reopened.

Done!

[kahn-hubitat]

Here is another one..

Tesla Integration to Query Status and Send Commands to Your Car

I managed to get this integration working and am able to see the 30+ attributes. On the ActionTiles side, I'm only able to see 5 of them. Any idea how I can call the remaining ones from ActionTiles? Thanks.

And another

APC SmartUPS Status Device

This is a device Handler to get the status of your APC Smartups that has the optional network card. It must be on your network with an ipaddress and have telnet enabled in the network setups. It telnets to the specified ip and port every X minutes as specified in the perferences, and logs in using the username and password specified in the preferences. It get the UPS runtime in minutes and hours and also the UPS status and last run time and puts these in attributes that can be used in any ru…

[bobbyD]

@kahn-hubitat

And another

I moved and reopened the APC one, for the Tesla, do you mind creating a new post under Custom Drivers with the latest code at the top, referencing the previous discussion for more details?

[kenrok1]

Here’s another (it’s also in get help) Balboa Spa Controller App

[bobbyD]

@kenrok1

Here’s another

Done!

[sburke781]

As long as you don't close the Cartoons and Meme's topic, I think we should be ok with closing the old lounge topics... but I guess we'll see....

[bobbyD]

@sburke781

Cartoons and Meme's

LOL, the cars and the cartoons threads have been manually de-selected to avoid closure

[sburke781]

A prudent measure....

[danabw]

Please unlock...active and current and fun.

DIY- Battery Backup Hubitat- under TEN bucks-NO soldering

EDIT 03/2022- There have been multiple reports of this same board being redesigned , such that there is now a momentary drop of power when switching from wall power to battery, rendering it useless as a UPS. My original boards are working fine 2+ years later, but that original board revision might not be obtainable. And like everything else, the price of lithium cells has skyrocketed(from 4-> ~9$) Essentially killing my initial sub 10 dollar solution. Using hubitat as my security system, I n…

[bobbyD]

@danabw

active and current and fun.

Done, moved it under here is a cool thing I did...

[danabw]

Another that is long term active, both geeky fun and useful for folks wanting to improve or modify their wi-fi network alongside HE.

Ubiquiti router recommendation

Curious for those using a Ubiquiti router, which would you recommend? I already have switches so I don’t need more than a couple ports, but I do want it to be rack mountable. Right now I have an Asus router but everything is behind google wifi. The google wifi will remain for now. Unfortunately I didn’t realize when I bought it that it was basically a virus that would take over my network and create its own subnet and dhcp server... but I have 6 nodes and can’t afford to replace that right now s…

[bobbyD]

@danabw

Another that is long term active, both geeky fun

Fine, have at it, it's open again LOL

[bobbles]

I've been doing some playing with Node Red and I've noticed while searching for info, that threads seem to auto-close after 2 months of inactivity.
For future clean-ups, wouldn't this be the way to go?
Certainly be less work for you @bobbyD

[bobbyD]

@bobbles

that threads seem to auto-close after 2 months of inactivity.

It has been set for most categories to auto-close after 1 year of inactivity, however the change cannot be applied retroactively, that's how the clean-up project started.