So they clearly are fascinated by it and wish they had an elf too, so you lie to them because you can’t be troubled to move it every night?

I don’t hate my kids. I’m willing to put in a little effort to make them happy.

Work in progress. I’ll report back.

I started with a phone alarm. But when I’m in the kitchen, or at a friend’s house, or pretty much anywhere, or my kids are still awake, I have to silence the alarm at 9:00, I can’t just let it continue going off until I have a chance to move it. If I silence it, then if it’s 3 hours later I go to bed, I’ll have forgotten about it. A phone alarm simply didn’t work.

I’m so glad you posted this. That’s exactly what my wife and I came to. We know she’s got some more bad decisions coming up in the future, were hopeful she knows we are here for her if she needs it.

There is a lot going on with her, she’s fragile. It was Thanksgiving, I didn’t want to put her mom in that state of mind. I talked to my wife about it and we both came to the conclusion that she’s probably going to be making some more bad decisions and when she does, we want her to know she can trust us. We did have a conversation with her, much more than what I posted. I don’t think we are going to change anything, but I hope it’s been driven in that we love her and are here for her.

All devices require a hub, they need a hardware and software controller to work. It’s just that many “hubs” are a wifi router and cloud services. The hubs you are referring to are just local hardware and software controllers that live in the same space.

This seems to be an unpopular opinion because there’s always people jumping in talking about running wire all over the house…but…wireless is the future.

I have around 100 smart devices in my house and they are all wireless. Mostly ZigBee and Zwave with a few wifi devices mixed in. I struggle to see many reasons to need a wired data connection outside of your network closet.

IFTTT integration.