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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Recently I went through some pain with this myself. Had a full Heatmiser setup with wireless receivers in every room and 2 manifold controllers for our underfloor heating on two floors.

    The devices ate batteries like nothing I’ve seen before and regularly dropped off the network and didn’t send call to heat signals properly, so I decided to switch out the thermostats for cheap ZigBee temperature sensors.

    I then ordered a relay board from AliExpress with a baked in esp8266 cheap and flashed esphome onto it. These replaced my manifold controllers

    After trial and error, I now have my heating system run by esphome and home assistant. It has been faultless! Will probably reinstall the Heatmiser kit if I sold the house though









  • I’m really happy here.

    Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

    Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There’s a few smaller communities missing but I’m sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

    I don’t know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

    It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

    Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it’s great!