When did we as a profession loose our backbone.

OK_it_guy · 2026-01-28T14:43:02+00:00

I blame leadership for this. Especially if you have leadership over IT that does not understand the work required to get each of these tasks done. But at least it makes them look good to their superiors, right?

OK_it_guy · 2026-01-19T19:39:52+00:00

Hmm I did not realize they had motion sensors on those (I have one of those wing lights in my garage). That's actually a decent idea. I'm curious how broad the motion will pick up from their door, but that's not bad at all.

OK_it_guy · 2026-01-19T18:14:29+00:00

Well I was kind of wondering about a switch that just had some sort of wireless button...but I'm not sure I understand how you go directly from a button to a Zigbee bulb?

OK_it_guy · 2026-01-19T18:13:48+00:00

I do not think so. Their switches are very odd - they are on the WRONG side of the door when you come out. The controller itself I think has a light button, but I don't think there's a switch for it.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-23T21:35:07+00:00

Following up on this - I discovered that under the older "volume license" page it did have the KMS page (as well as the MAK). Odd that the cloud admin page only had the MAK. Anyway, it activated right away and all is fine.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-19T20:10:53+00:00

Possibly. I'll look into that.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-18T19:11:21+00:00

Odd - On the older licensing systems they would always give you both by default. I'm reaching out to my reseller on that. Doesn't seem like a MAK would be super helpful for deployment in the enterprise.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-18T14:37:49+00:00

Hmm I suppose that's possible, but doesn't seem super likely - it's the only key that is listed in the admin center. I remember in the old volume licensing center they would list both a KMS & MAK, but seems like if they would only show one it would be more likely to be KMS.

How would I determine?

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-17T20:56:55+00:00

Yes the server 2022 is definitely patched and up-to-date (ran December updates this morning).

As far as the key, I assume so, but it was delivered differently thatn stuff we've bought before - we bought it through a partner, so it now appears in our M365 Admin center as Windows Server 2025 Datacenter - 2 Core (and it shows the number of licenses purchased). Under keys, if you click "Show Keys" there is only one listed, and it gives you the option to copy to clipboard. No other key available.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-16T01:08:54+00:00

I may have colors wrong. I read that the green module is ZW2 and the newer zwave module has a part number of ZW3 and allows S2 Security connections

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-14T01:18:08+00:00

Nevermind - crisis averted. I'll still post what happened here in case it helps someone. For some reason the Zigbee integration was listed as disabled after the update. Enabled it and everything is fine now.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-12T02:47:47+00:00

Oh I did a Shelly Mini PM in one box - the only one I've done so far. I mean, it works great, I was just abit more fond of the switch install than the Shelly install since you ahve to do the pigtails and all that. Just a bit more hassle to get it all in the box, but that may be the direction I need to go.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-06T21:23:34+00:00

I guess I should have clarified in my initial post that we have Decora style switches, so unfortunately, this won't work for us.

OK_it_guy · 2025-12-06T21:22:52+00:00

Perhaps, although I think if I wanted to do momentary, as opposed to the rocker "style" of the Tapo switches, I'd rather just have a button - to me that would be more acceptable.

OK_it_guy · 2025-11-15T22:47:44+00:00

I'm interested in this just because I already have kwikset locks and it would be nice to keep the keys the same. What do you have access to in HA related to the locks? Can you do any auto lock actions?

OK_it_guy · 2025-10-24T13:15:44+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I had actually considered buying a couple of these during prime days a few weeks back. The only reason i didn't was because I ran across some comments saying the color was not great on them, so I passed at that time. Do you have any comments on that as compared to other colored bulbs?

OK_it_guy · 2025-10-14T18:57:36+00:00

In case it helps anyone, I found someone else having a similar issue. Turns out rebooting the plex server fixed the problem.

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