Home automation and EOL planning

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After going through several deaths in the family over the last couple of years, it has brought to light the fact that I have less than 50% of my useful life left...

So I'm starting EOL planning, such as documenting all my financial assets in a single location, so others don't have to spend weeks digging through my stuff like I had to do with Relatives to ensure I find everything...

But one thing comes to mind...The home automation pieces. My house is starting to run on automation. It would be difficult to live in without it now, LOL...

I'm curious...What kind of transition planning are you doing with others that live in your automated home so that they know how to make updates, modications, fixes, etc, should the inevitable and unfortunate happen?

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This topic comes up from time to time. Here is my reply from five years ago in a thread on this topic:

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This was a vibrant discussion recently...

My system would collapse, my wife would sell the house and walk away....problem solved.

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If I were to die today, not a single person would know how to maintain my system. Would my Hubitat account sit idle for years? Would admin purge the account, including all of my webcore material?

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What webcore material are you referring to?

As I understand it (I could be way off, I don’t use webcore), your pistons exist (and execute) on your hub. The piston editor runs in the cloud by default, though it’s also possible to run that locally (but not on your hub).

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Yes, that is what I mean. If my hub and Hubitat account get wiped, all of my pistons are gone. Except for all of the local backups that I have on my PC and Google drive. But no one has any knowledge of my webcore stuff. That does not really concern me though, because I doubt that ANYONE would want or need any of my webcore stuff after I am gone.

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But no one can wipe your hub except you (or someone else in your house after you’ve died).