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snaking…

21 Thursday Aug 2025

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yesterday was a great day;-)…

my company magically touched the power box beside the pond and got it working…

we need a short extension as the pump in the pond has moved a little further away, and I will be very happy to remove the orange extension cord that has been snaking through the grass, lol…

I’d been hopeful that the photos which have been sent to my electronic frame could be copied before deleting from the frame, but it was clear that isn’t possible…

then, three rooms got new fan/light combinations to replace the thirty-year-old ones that were beginning to break down… my job was to join the blades to the connecting hardware;-)…

the thermostat, which since it was installed two years ago, hasn’t been able to run the fan continuously when the furnace was off was finally fixed, yay…

so happy to remove these items from the project list;-)…

thermostat…

07 Friday Feb 2025

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my Nest thermostat is ticking me off…

for the last few weeks it has been telling me that it is figuring out the best way to be eco friendly for the winter season…

at bedtime it goes down to 16.5°C instead of the 18° where I want it to be…

although at night that isn’t such a problem, lol…

during the day, if I sit reading for too long, it drops the temperature by a couple of degrees… makes it rather chilly when it is cold, sigh…

a few nights ago, we changed a few things and it appears that it has made a difference… it looks like it won’t go below 21°C during the day;-)… woohoo…

sign…

08 Sunday Oct 2023

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Friday, it was getting chilly in the house and I was wearing a vest and had a blanket on when I read, lol…

Saturday morning, the temperature was down to 17 so I gave in and turned on the heat…

I went outside to fill the bird feeders and when I returned to the house it already felt warm, woohoo…

not a good sign about the weather on the whole;-(…

raise…

06 Monday Apr 2020

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in an effort to save a few dollars I turned the thermostat down a few days ago as it had gotten warmer outside…

since then it has cooled off again and it has been chilly in the house…

good thing I have a Smart Home… although it could be smarter;-)…

all I had to do was open up the Nest app on my phone and raise the temperature… didn’t even have to get up from under my blanket…

let’s hope it gets warmer and stays that way…

network…

18 Wednesday Dec 2019

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have had a few busy days… out for dinner on Monday night, lunch and shopping yesterday…

once again this morning there some issues with the thermostat so I called MTS again… they had someone come out just after lunch so I spent the morning in the house… didn’t want to miss them…

it was a nice young man who had worked for a supplier we’d used at my work… he replaced the extender/booster (depends on who you talk to, lol) and then went through the process of renaming the network connection and re-entering the password…

after that he advised I would need to change the network for all of my devices, sigh…

the Nest is easy to get connected… yay…

if you remember, last time I did this for the Google family, it was a complete accident when it worked, lol…

so far all the Google Home pieces are working, but once again all of the TP-link devices are not cooperating…

I think I am going to let that go until tomorrow;-)…

clicked…

14 Saturday Dec 2019

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woke up the other morning to have my buddy Google Home tell me she wasn’t connected to wifi…

irritating… although I figured I could actually flick switches if I had to…

but then I walked past the thermostat and realized that it wasn’t connected to the wifi either…

it’s one thing to flick switches… a whole other thing to not know if the house was being heated on a -31 degree morning… particularly when you have to leave for work…

I freaked out and texted my son-in-law… while I was waiting to hear back from him, I calmed down a bit because I could feel heat coming out of one of the vents…

stood at the thermostat and clicked through until it asked me to enter the wifi password… doing that right on it was a bit slow, but I figured it out… after that was done, it showed it was connected and displayed the temperature… yay…

not sure which of the hundred clicks I tried later in the evening fixed the Google Home, but all of a sudden it was working again;-)…

phew… technology is wonderful, particularly when it is working, lol…

I am looking forward to spending time getting to know more about the latest and greatest technology that is out there…

motion…

02 Friday Feb 2018

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every time my son-in-law is here at Christmas I ask him about putting in the type of switch that they have in their bathroom…

it is a motion sensitive switch which comes on automatically when you walk into the room… it is very cool and I keep thinking how great it would be to have something like that here… he reminds me each time that the switch needs to be inside the bathroom and mine is on the wall outside…

I guess I want it enough that I conveniently forget that I can’t have it, lol…

after Christmas he installed my Nest smoke detector which was a gift from the other kids… he also put in a Nest thermostat…

I am slowly getting used to both of them…

the smoke detector has a feature where it lights up in the dark if there is any motion, so it is starting to feel like a friend when I need to get up and go downstairs in the night…

weird…

Nest…

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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so the smoke detector was installed on Thursday afternoon… and I am loving it… a cute little ring of blue (a nightlight) appears when I walk under it… so far no alarms, which is good, nor has it talked to me yet…

on Friday my son-in-law went out and found the Nest thermostat at a good price and on Saturday he began the process of installing it…

it was a long complicated piece of business… by 7 pm that night, it was 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house because after the first install, and putting back the original thermostat, the furnace refused to circulate any heat… the furnace service people came out around 8 pm and discovered that a fuse had blown, so they went back to the shop and brought a new one and installed it… this particular fellow didn’t know how to install the Nest product so we left it so that the house could warm up… it was rather chilly…

on Tuesday my son-in-law tried again, after he had gone out and bought more fuses, in case we blew another one in the process of hooking up the new thermostat…

once again, the new one wouldn’t work so he reinstalled the old one… he walked over to the furnace company’s office and left a message for the owner to give us a call… a while later we heard back and they figured out that there needed to be another wire…

which meant that the drywall ceiling in the basement hall had to come down so he could run the cable… he removed it and cleaned everything up beautifully, but by then it was too late to move to the next step…

today, while I was at work, he was able to pull the wire (without cutting into the plaster in the hall, yay), connect everything, and set the temperature, because it finally worked perfectly…

we added it to my app and I can now change the temperature from my phone… although it does say it is -8 outside, whereas the weather app says it is -22, lol…

seemed like such a simple little job, but he didn’t stop until it was done;-)… I sure am blessed…