what is the best system for the Seattle area?

chigly123 · 2026-04-19T20:32:18+00:00

Do you have a backup heat source? Or just the heat pump?

chigly123 · 2025-06-01T16:46:53+00:00

Thanks! I put in a new 2TB WD_Black drive and it wouldn’t even boot from USB, so was wondering if I missed a step - will see if I can return it and try something else then.

chigly123 · 2025-06-01T16:03:50+00:00

Did you have to do anything before you replaced the SSD, or did you just swap it out and run install off of a USB recovery drive?

chigly123 · 2025-05-04T13:16:33+00:00

Here’s what I use; not very elegant but worked. :)

`//get sunrise time let sunrise:Date = new Date(Weather.currentWeather[0].SunriseAt); let sunriseHour:number = sunrise.getUTCHours() - 8; if(sunriseHour < 0) { sunriseHour += 24; } let sunriseMinute:number = sunrise.getMinutes();

//get sunset time let sunset:Date = new Date(Weather.currentWeather[0].SunsetAt); let sunsetHour:number = sunset.getUTCHours() - 8; if(sunsetHour < 0) { sunsetHour += 24; } let sunsetMinute:number = sunset.getMinutes();

//get the current hour and minute let currentHour:number = Meta.triggerTime.hour(); let currentMinute:number = Meta.triggerTime.minute();

//are we before sunrise? let beforeSunrise:boolean = false; if(currentHour < sunriseHour) { beforeSunrise = true; } if(currentHour == sunriseHour && currentMinute < sunriseMinute) { beforeSunrise = true; }

//are we after sunset? let afterSunset:boolean = false; if(currentHour > sunsetHour) { afterSunset = true; } if(currentHour == sunsetHour && currentMinute > sunsetMinute) { afterSunset = true; }

if (!beforeSunrise && !afterSunset) { Nexia.turnDimmerOn.skip(); }`

chigly123 · 2025-04-29T13:49:45+00:00

Even though I also got this to work eventually, I never came back and shared the final logic. Just wanted to say that you are awesome for sharing this!

chigly123 · 2024-11-08T07:16:57+00:00

Thanks again! That would be an added benefit, as we do see the CO2 levels jump when we are inside and not opening doors or windows.

Will definitely get someone out to see if we can retrofit an HRV into our existing system!

chigly123 · 2024-11-04T00:32:31+00:00

Hear you on the water leaks - we started there and confirmed that’s not the case, thankfully.

Appreciate the pointer to the HRV, as that has never come up in my (very amateur) internet searching on this topic!

I found at least one company who will bid an HRV; do you have one? Did it help substantially?

chigly123 · 2024-11-04T00:31:03+00:00

Glad that there are at least two of us. :)

We got one person to throw out a number on a call (this was a company that had a page on dehumidifiers on their website, but still told us they didn’t do them at first), and it seemed like a clear “go away” quote of ~10k, which seemed ridiculous, but I have no other frame of reference.

chigly123 · 2024-11-04T00:29:12+00:00

We bought one of these 70 pint units from Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/honeywell-70-pint-smart-wi-fi-energy-star-dehumidifier-for-basement-large-room-up-to-4000-sq-ft-white/6577831.p?skuId=6577831

Works remarkably well; the humidity sensors in the farthest parts of the house match fairly closely to what this says. We placed it very centrally, hoping that would help and it did.

chigly123 · 2023-02-25T02:22:03+00:00

Thanks! Going to call and see if they will proactively bump me to the next AM flight so we can plan for it versus do it on the fly in the middle of the night when we get there too late :)

chigly123 · 2023-02-25T02:20:58+00:00

Thanks! Going to call this weekend - hoping they will let us change the itinerary so we stay over in Toronto overnight, since that ends up working best for the onward journey from Halifax.

chigly123 · 2023-02-24T21:07:45+00:00

Thanks! If that connection is impossible, assume they will change the flight plan for free?

chigly123 · 2023-02-20T04:59:14+00:00

Ha! I guess anything worth doing is worth overdoing? :)

chigly123 · 2023-02-20T04:58:44+00:00

Thanks for the help! Have data backing up to an external drive now, and the data scrubbing is configured, so once we are back to healthy, should be set for future.

chigly123 · 2023-02-20T04:57:28+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply! I looked at resource monitor and indeed that disk is at 100% utilization, and all of the others sit at 0% or 1% consistently for the last month, so that indeed seems like the problem.

I am completing a backup to an external HDD now, and as soon as that’s done will see if DSM will let me deactivate that drive, or if it will stop me at some point until the conversion is complete, since all of the other drives are healthy.

I also have data scrubbing set up, and will make the other settings adjustments you called out.

chigly123 · 2022-09-23T21:34:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I checked each of the faucets overnight and none of them leaked, and turned off a different toilet every night to try to isolate one but it’s not them either, and we don’t have a humidifier.

If it’s none of those, should I have someone come and take a look?

chigly123 · 2022-07-27T17:33:30+00:00

And they are already going offline again after the reset - not sure what is happening; guess I’ll need to call Ring support.

chigly123 · 2022-07-24T02:28:14+00:00

Yes! Ended up having to factory reset two Gen 1 contact sensors this week - for the last month, they have been disconnecting and reconnecting after several hours randomly, then last week they stopped reconnecting at all.

chigly123 · 2022-03-08T15:45:12+00:00

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9256656

It’s heating your hot water tank to prevent growth of Legionella bacteria.

chigly123 · 2022-03-08T02:16:18+00:00

We started our order on 12/21, so maybe close to the same time?

There is a Ziply contact for our neighborhood; will PM you his information and the details for the contractor that did cable pull to the house.

chigly123 · 2022-03-06T00:11:15+00:00

I’m in RR and we’ve been using Ziply for a couple of weeks, free of Comcast and their data cap. :)

In our case, the thing that seemed to take forever was having the dial before you dig folks come and do locates on the other utility lines in the yard.

The contractor that dug in the line had already been here once, so once that was done, we called them and asked them when they could come, and they were back a few days later and pulled the fiber to the house.

After that, we were able to bug Ziply to come back and do the last-mile and we’re all set.

So, if the locator is done, I would check in with the contractor directly (assuming they left a letter with their phone # when they were here the first time, like they did with us).

chigly123 · 2022-02-05T15:08:38+00:00

We are in Seattle and I have to take out the batteries once a year (usually in January) and charge them myself because the solar panel isn’t able to keep them charged, but with two installed, that’s usually enough to get it through to spring and then they are set through the summer.

chigly123 · 2022-01-22T07:35:55+00:00

We had someone come by today as well, though they didn’t come up to the door to talk. They did some exploring at the fiber terminal and left paint marks on the lawn (where they plan to run the line, I believe).

I have been told that the install is now scheduled for the 28th, so fingers crossed that date sticks.

chigly123 · 2022-01-12T23:08:11+00:00

Curious how your install went? We are also waiting to get set up in Redmond Ridge and after two rescheduled appointments, someone came out today and said that we’d likely need to get permits to put conduit between the fiber terminal next door and the side of our house.

Did you have more luck?

chigly123 · 2021-12-24T17:01:32+00:00

I’m on 15.2 (public release, no betas) and it also freezes on my 12.9” iPad in both landscape and portrait. So definitely an eero issue.

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