Vera account suspended for a 1000 years
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Before the take over, the Vera forum was really useful. The criticism was thought provoking. Wow what a change.
Other smart home forums allow for plenty of criticism within their discussions. Even SmartThings allows whole sections of Hubitat related talk. I only know of 1 discussion removed there and it eventually was put back by an employee/moderator.
Glad to see this independent forum has started! -
Warm welcome for your first post! This forum only exists thanks to the generosity of @DesT who provided the domain name, hosting and design! We should also be grateful to the venerable mcv/vera for connecting so many people and pioneering this hobby.
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This post is deleted!
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Here we go.... got banned too!
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Are you kidding me? For what? Saying the thread isn't constructive? Well, shucks, there's just no room for you around here, Captain Obvious.
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@toggledbits don't worry, I will be able to sleep tonight
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I think Melih is having troubles sleeping, hence his easily bothered behaviour. He needs a drink.. or two.. or maybe 5?
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can share a bottle of whisky with him
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Pretty sure at this point that he and I aren't going to be drinking buddies, so I'll leave that to you guys.
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The maturity, repeated disrespect and name calling indicates he already had too many in my opinion.
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Well....since this morning I cannot login to the vera forum anymore.. Account suspended for 1000 years. No warnings at all. What a joke....The almighty dictator that cannot endure any criticism and breaks every forum rule himself again proves what kind of person he is. Really unbelievable his recent behaviour towards rigpapa and akbooer !! Well I don't bother at all. Seeing the lack of progress in Ezlo controllers these will not be part of my (future) home automation system.
@toggledbits: I liked your reactions towards the dictator (probably the reason he suspended me) and I really fully behind you !!
@akbooer: ridiculous that the dictator calls you a thief (you stole away "his"customers). He'\s very good in chasing them all away himself.I use Vera controllers for almost 8 years now. Honestly I'm quite happy with how they function right now. Thanks to the great research and tips of @rafale77 and switching all my scenes to the magnificent Reactor plugin it is now working (although with on average 1 luup reload per day). My setup is quite complex and next to a lot of zwave devices I also use the plugins for e.g. Hue, Sonos, Netatmo, Milight, RFXcom, smartmeter, Datamine2. For short term I will consider decoupling my Veras from the Vera servers and/or start using Openluup. First dig in to this a little more, I already noticed this forum is very informative about all the options.
I think much more members are banned now from the vera forum. Because if they ban me for liking the posts of rigpapa.... well I was not the only one.
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Welcome to the group! Seems like most of the plugins you use are authored by folks here, so support should be fine. As you mention, good alternative paths forward are also available.
AK
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Hmm interesting, this is becoming a welcome to new members thread... So welcome!
There is so much more I have to say about the spectacle on the other side but I will refrain to not bore anyone since most of it will be just stating the obvious.
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shit, i thought this ended when melih got sober/hung over.. mabye I should recommend MSR as an alternative for mr. rutledgehouse in the thread?
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The crazy guy banned me also
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WTF me too!
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I'm still not excluded, but I think it's a matter of time until he sees the same profile picture.
I was hoping to be able to test the eZLO plus some more, but given the temperature, i'd rather stay with the "Rafael group".
Utterly flabberghasting!
Edit: And there, i'm out too. Should we count how many eZLO plus beta testers he threw out? I have one.
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Wait... is he... talking about these forums in his own thread? Another rule violation? And with a picture?
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An embarrassing ad from the "competition"
Had to share this ad that showed up in my news feed today for ezlo which apparently used to be Vera. When I saw the preview, I was seriously confused. They’re proud of the fact that it takes almost two seconds for a light to come on! It’s been a while since I used a z-wave or zigbee bulb, so maybe...
interesting... I just discovered this.
Not quite sure what part of this is more impressive:
The sheer dishonesty of test environment comparing the systems which I didn't know about until I read that thread or how shamelessly ridiculous and ignorant the ad is since speed was unique problem of the z-wave network management of the vera... yep no other platforms have this kind of problems so speed is definitely not a relevant factor anymore.
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