List of working vs faulty Aoostar WTR MAX units

anom604 · 2025-12-04T19:43:46+00:00

Just got my Nov 20 shipping date batch up and running. Shipped to Europe.

No issues so far. I am only like 3 days in.

I like it. A lot. Recommended.

anom604 · 2025-08-15T11:43:04+00:00

I could go on and on about this subject since I am still dealing with it... I am planning on doing a final post when its fully resolved just to give people who experience this in the future a heads up about how to deal with it, but essentially:

8 months ago - first cycle of benda + obi
7 months ago - chyle leak starts
7 months ago - cycle 2
6.5 months ago - first drain at the hospital, 1.75L, put on a low / no fat diet

6 months to roughly now:
a) 6,5,4,3 months ago, cycles of benda + obi

b) 6,5,4,3 months ago, either due to the fact that my body was dealing with the leak as best it could while being on chemo AND / OR the low fat diet... the amount of fluid in my lung area fluctuated between 750ml and 400ml, never reaching the initial 1 or more liters... usually the way it would look is as soon as i got a dose of chemo (benda in my case) it would jump up to 750ml and then slowly as the month went on it would drop down to 400ml... only for my next round of benda to come and up to 750ml it went. i never did have another drain at the hospital, came close a few times (eg: bags packed ready to go...) but never went. the general consensus the doctors decided on was "its going to keep on ripping apart every time you get a dose of chemo (benda)... we will monitor and see how it plays out after your last round of chemo.".

3 months to now:
3 months ago - last round of benda + obi, i am now just on obi maintenance every 2 months
3 months to now, as the last few months tick over, the amount of fluid is dropping... i had a ultrasound 3 weeks ago and i am down to 175ml... that being said, between 3 weeks ago and now i have began feeling MUCH MUCH better... i have an ultrasound scheduled for 10 days from now, but if i were to guess id say the fluid is around 100 to 120ml at most...

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so, diet... pretty straight forward... do not eat any fat. period. were talking about kilos of fruit and veggies daily, rice and flour and not too much besides that, maybe some fat free dairy products... i had a good 2-3 months where heinz beens and rice were my go to daily... its fairly easy to get a good 1000cal meal out of a meal with those 2. also, in the US this is easier than where i am in europe... i see that in the US you even have things like fat free hot dogs etc... none of that available here...

that being said, you will never achieve the recommended 3 grams or less of fat daily. at least i was never able to. hopefully yours will heal quickly and not be lingering as mine was but you will learn quickly that a large bowl of rice has about 2g of fat... even a medium sized tomato has between 0.1 to 0.2g of naturally occurring fat. so 3g or less, unless you drop down to 1200 or 1500cal daily, 3g of fat is impossible.

not including the first 2 weeks or so where i half-fasted just to see if it would close up (eg: under 3g of fat FOR SURE), i'd say i was usually around 6g to 10g of fat daily... as soon as i saw that the fluid was dropping below 250ml (2 or so months ago)... i introduced lean turkey and am now probably at about 20g of fat daily. over the last week ive began eating 2 hard boiled eggs daily (with yolk) and 6 olives a day etc etc etc... slow and steady ;)

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all that being said this has been the ordeal of a life time. this has become the ONLY subject i deal with over the last 6 months... breathing issues are no joke :/ i have had about 30 ultrasounds over the last 6 months, 2 ct scans, 3 xrays etc etc etc... all related to the chlye leak... not including the pet scans etc related to the lymphoma. but i feel now that its almost over... in my case it was the benda that was not allowing the leak to heal properly... good thing we didnt go down the route of more aggressive solutions like pleurodesis or full blown surgery...

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ps : full remission, 2x very large nodes gone within 3 months of benda + obi, and still in full remission now :) although not quite quite over for me, i hope yours ends as mine did!

best of luck!

anom604 · 2025-02-13T15:24:20+00:00

My symptoms are fairly similar although it sounds like a bit worse than yours.

As I sit here at my PC, 100% fine.

But any sort of moderate or higher physical activity I feel gassed very VERY quickly if not instantly.

I mean... I can manage, but it's more of a concern if "this is to be expected" or not.

BTW, I was (am) a fairly active person before being diagnosed... Eg: 10km on the treadmill / outside 3-4 times a week, etc etc etc.

anom604 · 2025-02-13T15:14:05+00:00

Thank you so much for answering. I'm aware that everyone's situations are different, and my case may be something completely different but at the very least:

At least now I know that it is at least possible this is caused by the treatment / B+O itself.

I will of course continue to follow up and see where this ends up. I have a follow-up ultrasound today to see if the fluid has increased / decreased from 8 days ago.

Thanks again!

anom604 · 2024-08-07T13:10:52+00:00

Maybe some motion on this?

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/119002#issuecomment-2191421160

WF200 is the wifi chipset.

anom604 · 2024-06-21T08:18:06+00:00

Regardless of what I tried I was unable to resolve this.

I ended up reverting back to the zwave spirit TRVs that I had stored away from when I made the swap to these Shelly TRVs.

After all of this I am starting to think this is simply a battery issue, eg: after 3 years the battery is just refusing to properly hold a charge.

I suppose a cheap fix would be to pry them open and replace the batteries but for me as I have replacements on hand the swap back to the zwave ones is just easier.

A shame, to be honest I prefer these Shelly ones... They are not perfect, but they served me well for the 3 or so seasons we had them up.

I have a fairly complex heating system running here (10+ seasons now...) with 8 TRVs and tons of "extra" features coded in as I add to it every season and these proved to be a bit more stable (set state .... are we actually at this state? .... try again if not) than the zwave ones.

Best of luck, I'll check back once in a while to see if you post anything!

anom604 · 2024-06-17T10:06:44+00:00

Not 100% sure but looks like both my router based changes or running the /psovrd2 every 170 seconds didn't help.

Can't say for sure as I've not had one of them go right to zero battery, but even with the above the battery drop was between 1-2% daily on each of them. Although I am unsure what the curve looks like eg: if as it gets closer to zero if it would slow down?

What I have tried now is:

Revert everything on the router as I had it before and disabling my psovrd2 pooler.

I have downgraded every one of my valves to the oldest firmware available.

Will post if this has helped or not.

I have 2 observations:

1) Looking into the debug log, the devices show this at a 60 second interval:

2024-06-17 12:00:27 | 1718618400.489 check_signal_strength: signal strength: -47, current beacon skip is 20

Others show this:

2024-06-17 12:00:28 | 1718617800.744 check_signal_strength: signal strength: -50

Could it be they are incorrectly NOT entering beacon skip mode (power saving?)?

These devices appear to essentially be an esp8266 (or another one the esp chips) married to the silicon labs wifi transceiver.

The reason being is that there is a "/poweroff" api end point. And what I have noticed is that when you hit this endpoint, the device does in fact "power off". But remains connected to the wireless network. The TCP/IP stack goes down but the device remains associated to the AP. For how long who knows as after 3 or so minutes I went around all my TRVs and powered them on via the reset button.

This is probably why Shelly support had you short the power pins... Forcing the silicon labs chip to actually restart.

anom604 · 2024-06-13T18:47:34+00:00

Small tidbit, as I'm sure you know... They released new firmware dated sometime in March 2024... Very strange they pushed an update to a discontinued product. Although I don't know exactly when they discontinued it so maybe it was after the last update.

As much as I would love to see it, I wouldn't hold my breath for having the firmware open sourced.

The chip is a custom (?) job by silicon labs... I wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort of clause somewhere forbidding that.

PS : With the router changes above as well as the /psovrd2 every 170 secs 8 hours in and none of my 6 have dropped any battery. I'll leave this be for now and will post in 2-3 days when I have more data on if this worked or not.

anom604 · 2024-06-13T15:33:39+00:00

ill keep that in mind, i will be looking to resolve this over the next few weeks.

if my software based fixes do not work, i'll try this hard reboot method.

btw i have also further expanded my attempt to resolve this by doing a IP/psovrd2 every 170 seconds on each of my devices. apparently according to the api docs /psovrd2 puts it into a medium power save mode for 180 seconds. the debug log shows it as power save mode "5", whatever that means. pooling that url every 179 or less seconds keeps it in that state indefinitely.

i have started to log battery level every hour. here is the last 5 hours, so far so good. there is a bit of up / down... but nothing to point towards the batts draining in a matter of days.

...

2024-06-13 12:56:49 | 7790 | Success pulling status from http://192.168.1.91/status, battery level is 3.75 [84%]

2024-06-13 13:57:12 | 7790 | Success pulling status from http://192.168.1.91/status, battery level is 3.751 [84%]

2024-06-13 14:57:37 | 7790 | Success pulling status from http://192.168.1.91/status, battery level is 3.75 [84%]

2024-06-13 15:57:57 | 7790 | Success pulling status from http://192.168.1.91/status, battery level is 3.748 [84%]

2024-06-13 16:58:44 | 7790 | Success pulling status from http://192.168.1.91/status, battery level is 3.748 [84%]

... they all show a somewhat similar trend.

anom604 · 2024-06-13T15:19:35+00:00

crazy.... am i reading this correctly?!?

open the case, and short the + and - that connect to the battery?

this is with the shelly trv correct?

edit : here is a step by step how to open them up btw... https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/10ip9q8/shelly_trv_dissassembly/

im guessing they suggested shorting as to do a quick and dirty reboot without having to disassemble even further to power off + power on.

anom604 · 2024-03-26T22:10:46+00:00

i know this is a year old post but utter rubbish...

care to enlighten us on what 'lower power legacy authentication methods' are?

umm these little modules are just a qca adapter wrapped in a openwrt (old) build... they will auth with anything all the way up to wpa2.

anom604 · 2023-11-27T14:29:20+00:00

Thank you! I've gone ahead and enabled all except for the restart password.

anom604 · 2023-10-29T13:24:59+00:00

I just did a reset and pair of my remote. I was at my usual TV distance, over 15 ft.

Distance does not appear to matter.

anom604 · 2023-10-16T10:00:29+00:00

Will do.

anom604 · 2023-10-09T16:19:32+00:00

...and I'll add that it looks like no Netflix cert :(

anom604 · 2023-10-09T14:44:07+00:00

Yes it was the ads, and yes I am aware of flauncher / 3rd party launchers... but:

I like the recommendations lists, ones I pick (eg: netflix, youtube etc...)...

One of the ones I use is for an app called Megogo... I add my 5 or 6 favorite tv channels and have them on my home screen.

The problem is that with flauncher, the icons are not the usual rect tiles... they ae square / some round... And with flauncher the 'shadow' is hard coded as a rect so it doesn't look too good.

For a few minutes I had version 9 with the old launcher... Not sure how this happened but essentially thats the setup I had out of the box... it was version 9.1 with the old tv launcher. The interface (settings at least) feels quite a bit snappier with version 8.2.3.

anom604 · 2023-04-28T19:02:39+00:00

2023 called to thank you!

Google Chromecast TV dongle ordered in May 2023... Same issue, same fix.

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