amigan

Lol, and the project is slowly trying to force everyone to use it. I’ll continue to use core in a venv and manage my own OS, thanks.

9 trillion cloud polling integrations, but getting rid of truly local integrations. gg

I guess that’s more of a delta for my fork to inherit, ugh.

I will say, I’ve had an old mechanical window AC trip the ZEN15’s overload detection when the thermostat short cycled and the compressor was stalled. So I would trust it for that in a pinch, and especially with a resistive load. But for an outdoor heating element application, I still would oversize the switching device (and get the 40A contactor), and put 15A circuit breakers before the contactor. Also, that 40A device can drive either a two pole 240V device (unison contacts) or two 120V devices, so you could just put each heater on its own pole and heat up your wiring a little less. Or probably just wire only one pole, I haven’t read the manual.

My guess is that they see their device controlling a heating element of unknown (to them) provenance as a liability. My zen15 manual specifically has a warning against using it with heaters.

CAUTION This is an electrical device - please use caution when installing and operating the Power Switch. Remote control of appliances may result in unintentional or automated activation of power. Do NOT use this Z-Wave device to control electric heaters or other appliances which produce the risk of fire, burns, or electrical shock when unattended.

Yeah, these days meaning either “an algorithm of any kind” or a complex bounded random number generator that draws a gigawatt to run.

I agree mostly; for example, ZW bulbs are outrageously expensive. I have a Kwikset lock, a couple Zooz ZEN15s, some dimmable lamp modules, Aeotec HEM, a Remotec IR AC controller, GE switches, and Honeywell T6 Pro thermostats.

Nothing wrong with Z-Wave. I have 3 radios (2 zw [one for Aeotec HEM since it generates tons of traffic], one zig) just so I can use whatever is cheapest or available for a particular application. All of the “energy controlling” (meaning, not light bulbs) is ZWave because it seems to have more robust state verification built into the protocol. Also, it’s 915MHz and I live in a very crowded RF environment on 2.4.

You don’t like being forced to buy a new garage door opener every time the manufacturer’s product manager takes a shit?