I'm adding my third hub and danabw got me up to speed on the zwave stick and that stick is just amazing in helping me remove devices that aren't excluding that well Or where i force exclude them and they stick around (aka ghost).
I've been using your writeup now several times and its just great stuff. Thanks for taking the time to do that writeup -its been super helpful!
Yep, and he bakes a good loaf of bread, too!
Awww...thanks. I only summarized info that many others here shared w/me first. Too many good people here to count. I am going to aks you to add @erktrek to your "thank-you" list - he was my "ghost" editor (yeah, I went there 
) without whom I could not have done it! 
LOL...
Tomorrow morning I'm baking four loaves of sourdough bread, and making 8 jars of blackberry jam, for Christmas/New Years presents for neighbors and family. Busy day tomorrow. It's raining here so good day to do warm things (oven starts at 500!) in the house.
well @erktrek you get a slew of the kudos as well. Thanks for the good work - super helpful!
Now i wish there was some standardization for button combos to press to include/exclude switches. it sucks when they are in the wall and you can't remember the model numbers (and i haven't figured out any easy way to get the model numbers off hubitat).
I'll get it sorted, i only have three wall switches, two motion sensors and three tilt sensors that i need to move over to this hub.
Change the driver to Device, save, hit configure, get the info (it goes into logs), most devices report enough for you to figure it out from that info.
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Four sourdough loaves and 8 jars of blackberry jam - holiday cheer for neighbors and family. If there was ever a good time to move into my cul-de-sac, this is it.
Certainly you consider community forum members your neighbors, don’t you? If we didn’t have stay-at-home restrictions in place, I’d be dropping in tomorrow.
Anyone who brings a smart device in trade gets a loaf!
Since were talking baking, i have to add in. We usually travel somewhere for christmas. But with covid i just didnt feel like travelling. So we cooked and baked at home.
This is our first attempts at a polish style cheesecake (sernik). Its slightly less sweet and i think its a touch bit more dense than new york style cheesecake. Flavored with orange zest and covered in a chocolate ganache. Delicious and not that challenging to bake.
From there we headed into the traditional ginger breads of christmas. Again a polish recipe (my wifes family is from Poland). This is a soft gingerbread, the center has been sliced and plum jam is spread inside before it is reassembled and covered with a chocolate ganache. This one tasted better after a few days. Amazingly great flavors. We have a polish deli in San Francisco where we got the plum jam from. Its slightly tart which works so well with the gingerbread flavors. Candied orange rinds on top (recipie from a Pepin rerun on PBS)
And we did a totally unconventional christmas, i cooked a spanish paella, which is one of my favorite dishes. This is from a previous paella i made in my old house, i've done many, many batches to perfect my paella. This one is made with chicken, smoked ham, pork, chorizo, shell fish, lobsters, shrimps and spanish bell peppers topped with peas. Flavored with smoked spanish paprika, saffron, and my secret weapon, roasting the uncooked rice quickly in orange zest and olive oil before adding white wine and chicken stock.
Dang, now i'm getting hungry.. 
And here I thought prawns at Christmas was only an Aussie thing.... 
. Looks great!!
On my way over, two loaves and two jars in trade for ... anything!!
The baked dishes sound really interesting - I'm a fond of not incredibly sweet baked desserts so the cheesecake might be right up my alley.
Have to admit that a chocolate covered gingerbread sounds a little odd, but the plum jam sounds great!
And what can be I say about that paella! Wow. We have just started to work on ours, only made it a couple times. When it goes right, not many dishes that can compare...yours looks fantastic!
Paella ftw!!!! That looks awesome..
In almost three years in this community, I have yet to flag a post as inappropriate. These pornographic photos could be considered offensive by some.(those of us trying to shed a few).
I went overboard in my quest for making a great paella. I took a class with one of the instructors at the culinary institute of america (CIA) up in Napa valley just on paella making. Courtesy of my wife i got the me class as a gift many years ago.
Btw. if you ever consider taking any cooking classes, the most rewarding class i've ever done was knife skills. Knowing and using the right technique for something as simple as cutting has increased my cooking productivity tremendously. I used to take my sweet time chopping an onion. Now i can chop it up in a couple of seconds once i get the skin off.
I digress. time for some leftover paella. Post covid i think a serious diet is needed...
Best paella I ever had was in Mallorca. An old man in a tiny shop that we found as #1 on TripAdvisor (or suchlike, can't remember exactly). He served out some and it was utterly delicious. Then he came back and scraped the last layer out for us. I thought oh no, not sure that's such a good idea. It looked a bit burned because it was all sticking to the bottom of the tray. But, Oh My! It was absolutely delicious. Crispy and so tasty. How he managed to get just the right mixture, heat and timing to do that repeatedly I don't know. A true artisan. Wonderful!
I'm going to heap some more praise on you!
Just moved another four devices between two hubitat hubs and its just a delight to clean up the ghosts with your procedure. Again, thanks for documenting your experiences -its awesome and super helpful for me!
Really glad it's helpful. I've been given hours and hours of assistance here, being able to play back a small part of that is very gratifying! Thanks for the thanks!
I've learned so much from everyone and it's been such an amazing experience it's hard not to want to give back where you can.
Truly a great community of folks here..
@dJOS and @par.botes... Some time in the kitchen this morning to make Scotch Oat Cakes. My mom had made some she shared w/between me and my two brothers. After I ate them I just had to have more so made a double batch. Yes, addiction issues...
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