HE's biggest weakness :crossout: opportunity

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Power goes out, you wouldn't know it...because everything...I mean everything keeps working on the small two cell backup battery pack in the box....for hours. Oh wait, you DO know because it calls or texts you to tell you.

This is ridiculously easy to do with HE!

How To: Hubitat Battery Backup solution plus Automatic Shutdown after a power Failure

So I thought I'd post a guide on how to do this as apparently quite a few folks would like this capability. The reasons for adding battery Backup to your Hubitat are varied but here are a couple: Prevent Hubitat Database Corruption in the event of a power outage Enable a graceful sahutdown of your Hubitat in the event of a long duration power outage If you are using HSM as your alarm system, your battery powered security devices will still work Just a few things to note first: You need to u…

The only weakness HE has imo is that sometimes after a power outage, my Zigbee and zwave mesh networks take a while to play nice again.

Iirc rule machine does have some options to refresh or repair zwave mesh networks, but I haven’t looked into it yet.