Loved hiking devils park when I lived there!

Fair enough, and thank you for posting these results. I think this confirms that this is not a community that I am comfortable being associated with.

Take care and I’m sure I will see some of you on the other related instances

This post comes up fairly often, and I think it always narrows down to two options:

1. Yale/august locks: -More affordable, -can buy hotswappable modules for zwave, zigbee, wifi, etc but the availability seems to be hot and miss (seems like they stopped making the zigbee one last I checked, but YMMV). -Battery backup option seems cool but I’ve seen more posts about it not working that saving someone’s bacon, so I’d personally opt for the keyed version. -Some posts indicate the screens are somewhat prone to failure, but the quantity of these posts is not enough for me to write them off entirely. -integrates easily with homeassistant -has a door closed sensor for auto-relocking. Apparently it’s buggy though.

2. Schlage (specifically the encode plus, but they have a more affordable encode option) -Apple homekey integration is sleeeeek -more expensive -was almost impossible to find until a couple weeks ago -almost no reports of reliability issues, but time will tell I guess! This was the main reason I decided to spring for this lock over Yale -was supposed to get a free update to matter, but Schlage changed their minds and now said a separate model will be released with it. Supposedly due to requirements published about the standard, but I’ll cross my fingers that someone figures out how to make it work. -last I checked, no one has been able to integrate this directly into homeassistant. The best I’ve seen is someone posted a hacky solution for homeassistant to trigger an automation in HomeKit, but I think that post was lost in the Reddit blackout.

Honestly, I’ve stopped seasoning my steak beyond salt and pepper and wouldn’t personally marinate anything other than something like a skirt steak for fajitas anymore.

If I were to marinate again, I would pull the steak out of marinade and let if drip dry over a towel for 30 minutes or so (or as long as I had patience for - I’m guilty of allllllways cutting corners).

My parents ALWAYS marinate their steaks in a ziplock bag of liquid marinade, immediately slap those soggy slabs on the grill without drying, and subsequently cook them to a rubbery puck of grey meat. Suggestions to change their ways is futile - Americans don’t like being told they bbq incorrectly…

Yeah they are definitely the more expensive route. But with that, you definitely get a more reliable product. The Yale/august products are a close second place at a price that is easier to swallow, but there are more issues reported online about reliability.

Figured the added price was worthwhile for the price of mind of not ever risking getting locked out, but chances are you’ll be completely satisfied with one of the more reasonably priced options!

Schlage encode plus has been top-notch for me so far! Main downside is it’s not going to get a matter update anymore - Schlage plans on releasing updated hardware with that functionality (date tbd)

Looking around, I find it incredible that the island was covered in trees before the Vikings arrived, and it still hasn’t recovered

Definitely recommended! Beautiful landscape everywhere you go

I’m on mobile and tbh don’t have time to dig into this too much, but I think you would do well to calculate the point of optimum efficiency for your specific scenario. I am in a similar scenario and hope to put together a spreadsheet that I could share if it doesn’t already exist elsewhere, but here is what I would do:

1. Find out if your heat pump IOM specifies the minimum ambient temperature before electric auxiliary heat kicks in (sometimes called “em heat” or emergen heat). Electric heat will always be the most expensive source of heat, so you should use oil heat when temperatures drop below that.

2. Look up the peak electric rate (in $/kW-hr) for your utility company. Use this to calculate the cost, per hour, to run your heat pump in all temperatures tabulated in your link. This will tell you how expensive it is to run your heat pump in a worst-case scenario.

3. Calculate the cost to run your boiler, per hour. This is where you will have to do your own homework on efficiency of your boiler, rate of consumption, and cost of oil in your location. Hard to say if the boiler will run at full capacity or part load, but most are capable of running between 20-100% of nameplate capacity (5:1 turn-down). Summarize your findings into a coat to run your boiler per hour.

4. When the answer for #2 exceeds the answer for #3, you’ve identified your switch point! Note that this relies on a number of assumptions, like that the heat pump is running full capacity.

Schlage encode plus is fantastic, especially if you have an iPhone to utilize homekey to tap your phone/watch to unlock.

It generally has better reviews online than the Yale locks, but the benefit is greatly diminished if you don’t use iOS. Also - it’s wifi only, no zwave or zigbee. Originally promised a software update for Matter, but apparently something in the standard changed and will now have to be an updated SKU.

Hey thanks for chiming in with your experience! Sounds like I won’t be able to rely on it as an end-all solution. Like the other post above, I also have a heat pump upstairs and a boiler in the basement, so there are a couple other devices I’d like to play with to play with balancing the humidity to save the dedicated dehumidifier for only times it’s really needed

I don’t have experience with the aprilaire, but I also have a basement that requires a dehumidifier to run all the time. I’d love to try a whole home dehumidifier but wonder if you’d have to get the upper levels of the house too dry to keep the basement at the desired humidity (since it will always be more humid down there than the rest of the house).

One alternate solution I’d like to look into long term is a heat pump water heater, which has the benefit of being more efficient than more other water heaters, plus the benefit of dehumidifying the space around it due to the refrigeration cycle it uses. This only sounds reasonable b/c my water heater is on the older side so I might have to replace it eventually anyways. Wanted to throw that out there in case it was a possibility for yourself too! Not sure how it would work for the crawl space tho.

Full-disclosure: I’ve done VERY littler research on this. Just dabbling into some google searches in my free time and work in a related field and feel mildly knowledgeable on the subject.