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Maybe finally get serious about a main water shutoff, especially since the water heater has a date of 1996 on it. Tick tock.
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Install bathroom exhaust fans triggered by humidity. We have three baths and NONE have vents. Well, one has a vent, but it vents to the attic.
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Continue my never-ending quest for some sort of camera system. My Wyze cameras have been Ok, I guess, but they're a little slow to respond sometimes and I'm not crazy about relying on the cloud all the time. Always interesting to see what others do.
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On the plus side they fix stuff REALLY quickly
I will blame the pandemic somewhat for this. Sitting in meetings at home instead of getting up and walking through the office all day has had a negative impact on me at least. Not to mention the unlimited snacks at home.
As to HA, permanent addressable holiday lighting., Probably will start in the spring.
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I have also considered this. I have been working on insulation and air sealing and adding hurricane straps, so I have the soffit trim off right now. I thought about running wiring (or an outlet) for this purpose while I have everything apart.
My neighbors have all done soffit lighting but using spot lights (recessed cans) under the eave. I like the look, but I really would like the color changing and not having to climb on the roof for Christmas lights and have to take them down every year.
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Will possibly change a few of my switches to the 800 series Z-Wave from Inovelli when they come out, and will for sure get the new Inovelli motion detection ones if/when they come out. Will look at changing some of my motion sensors to PIR. Other than that, I suspect I’ll gift some of my current dimmers to my father and set those up for him. I suspect I’ll continue tweaking my rules.
I’m thinking of doing this some day as well… I’ll keep an eye on what you find!
I was also finding that my weight was going up lately. I had pretty much cut out soft drinks, so I also cut out tasty chocolat chip banana muffins and cheese at breakfast, and chocolates for desert at lunch and dinner. Kept my 2x 30 minute walks with the dog. Weight went down by about 20 lb in 2 months, and kept going down (lower than my goal) so I am re-introducing chocolate… Oh how I love chocolate… but will still cut the quantity…
Ouch! I wonder how much sediments it has in it - there’s a risk the bottom element is not able to work if it is buried… I changed mine to a Heat Pump Water Heater this summer and am so very happy with it! It should pay itself off in 5 years just with the energy savings.
Biking
I'm brand new to Hubitat but I'm hopeful that my dream of integrating my older Z-Wave devices with my Apple HomeKit will finally be a reality. Next step is to figure out how to get my Schlage Z-Wave deadbolts ready to pair with Hubitat and then hopefully there will be a way to get them responding in a way that lets me control everything through Siri. Fingers crossed as I don't see these locks on the Hubitat compatible devices list...
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Get the heating system connected. Get a proper "away" setup going and stop buying and testing cheap zigbee and zwave aliexpress devices. lol. And finally fiber is connected to our home. So got myself a 500/500Mbit uplink at the end of 2022. I will be downsizing my datacenter footprint as I will not be needing them anymore for the upload.
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Impressive, you deserve congratulations, losing weight (and not finding it again) is so difficult, particularly as we get older. 
Good quality dark chocolate is good for you due to higher presence of flavonoids and usually lower levels of sugar. Below is a great Gastropod podcast episode that explores chocolate historical and scientific info. Get the good stuff and enjoy w/out guilt.
As for 2023 HA...
- Dip toe into Matter/Thread as it starts to appear relevant
- Get some LED strip ligting into a pantry and couple of closets where I don't have easy access to power. Need to run some romex and add some new outlets w/out electrocuting myself or burning down the house. However, if I do burn down the house I need to make sure I also electrocute myself so my wife doesn't kill me.
- Setup Apple Homepod Mini in Garage to play music & podcasts when I'm out there
- Install Ring floodlight cam I bought almost 1 1/2 years ago to complete my exterior coverage security cam coverage. I've been a bit lazy about this one...
- Talk my wife into Ikea motorized cellular blinds (Tredansen) for the master bedroom. Very tired of manually raising and lowering 8 blinds every day...
- Find the Ikea Tredansen blind that I bought several months ago to to a quick test at home, and now cannot find anywhere in the house. I have seatched everywhere and just cannot find it.
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I believe it is spelled posterior. 
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Ain't letting no one record my posterior in it's curren condition...
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There is not a wide-angle lens large enough outside Hubble telescope that can capture that.
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See here and see how to handle non z-wave plus devices...
As long as it's firmware 7.10 and above you shouldn't have an issue. Anything older is a crap shoot on the c7. As to moving them to siri, you will just need to create a couple of virtual switches.
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Work out a few of the bugs in my system, namely the shades getting stuck on opening or closing. This is going to require me to learn about repeat, learn more about conditional, and figure out if there is such a thing as an "otherwise" statement.
After that just put a freeze on everything. I cant continue changing half my automations weekly. It wont be easy cause its like crack.
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Switched to a keto lifestyle (basically 20 or less carbs a day) a year ago and lost 38 lbs. Want to lose another 30 or so this year and believe I can do it. I do walk a lot and play pickleball, but exercise can't overcome bad diet. One slice of toast with jam is way more calories than walking an hour. So, exercise to feel better and for better heart health. But, cutting carbs is the only thing that has worked for me. Great tips over in the /r/keto subreddit. Anyway, FWIW this has been my experience.
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I just picked up a 50' set of these Govee to install outside when I get the chance. New-ish product that was just about impossible to get this fall.
As usual, I will need to void the warranty to make them fit the house the way I want......
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I found adding a 5 second delay between commands eliminated my IKEA blind issues.
Loads of stuff I want to sort out/add to my setup.
Make my setup as bulletproof as it can be. Switching my Pi over to SSD, adding a second that I can back up/clone to. UPS/battery backup for Modem, UDR, Hubitat, Pi and set up automated shutdown for the HE (and possibly the Pi?) There nothing like a corrupted database to make you think about these things.
On the automation front I’d like to add some mm wave sensors to keep lights on. Although I’ve rules set that do that via the physical switch, my wife just isn’t getting that if she overrides using the switch it then needs to be switched off!
Some water leak detection (so I’m not bold if the stable door after…)
I probably need to explore modes as I’m not using them yet. Most of my rules are by time or the status of the alarm system.
I also want to add a fair few outlets for non essential devices that will auto off when we leave/go to bed. I was quite surprised at the ratio of our energy usage. Around 60 per cent or more of our electricity is being used when we’re not there. I’d never have considered that an issue previously but Putin has changed my outlook on energy wastage.
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