JC Craftsman

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  • Texas homes heat up as power companies alter smart thermostats

    JC CraftsmanJC Craftsman
    Comments said it nicely. It’s the program they signed up for.
    This is the dumbest story I can recall reading in quite a while. 
    And the concept that 78 degrees inside out of the sun with (humidity lowering) AC is any risk, is without serious basis. 

    lkrupptokyojimucharlesatlaswatto_cobra

  • How to make HomeKit work for you automatically with scenes and automations

    JC CraftsmanJC Craftsman
    Having three locations now on HomeKit. The scene automations and scripts in HomeKit are great with one HUGE limitation. You cannot backup any of your fine creations. And worse it can be expected your HomeKit will get reset or wiped out for no apparent reason, and despite opening up Apple support tickets you will find you are completely out of luck and without recourse. Added 71 devices 20 scenes, and multiple other features are gone, just gone, look it up it’s — frequent and ugly. It’s now happened to me five times over two years, different configurations different devices, variables, and locations.

    Imagine all of the work one has done for a scripted database, or the configuration of a network or a router being wiped out. Well you will probably say that hasn’t and won’t happen because of your backups. Excellent. But none of your safety net applies to HomeKit, hard to believe Apple would do this. I’ve spent probably 20 hours over the past year with Apple support. They can’t solve it, as there is no backup — so when resets goes to default what could they do?

    The solution? Now I simply use the native app (Lutron or Hue or such) to set up the Scripts outside of HomeKit. I have  found all the apps that work with HomeKit devices allow script creation the same way HomeKit does -  it’s not in one place of course.  But none of those individual apps have wiped out my configurations. Use HomeKit on top of those if you wish as I do, and HomeKit only as a temperamental convenience.

    I can’t speak to Alexa or Google the versions because I don’t use those and they’re not an option for me given their privacy issues,

    Why does this reset happen to HomeKit ?  Sometimes the wipeout seems to surround a HomePod but most the time it seems to be caused when the Apple TV overrules the existing HomeKit configuration to send it back to default. . But we never ever count on your hard work in a HomeKit configuration being there tomorrow. When I’ve reported this before some apple fans freak out with misplaced anger at the messenger  - but instead call Apple and demand they fix the problem or at least allow us to back our HomeKit work up, now!
    watto_cobra