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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Good luck. Deep linking to intents that actually start playing a program, if you get it to work today, it will probably stop working next month. Intents are internal to apps, and even if the intent is static, the ID of the content most certainly is not. I had this working as a POC to start playing channels on YouTube TV but the maintenance burden made it utterly not worth it. If the content was local and available to play in Kodi it would be a different story.






  • I will say, I’ve had an old mechanical window AC trip the ZEN15’s overload detection when the thermostat short cycled and the compressor was stalled. So I would trust it for that in a pinch, and especially with a resistive load. But for an outdoor heating element application, I still would oversize the switching device (and get the 40A contactor), and put 15A circuit breakers before the contactor. Also, that 40A device can drive either a two pole 240V device (unison contacts) or two 120V devices, so you could just put each heater on its own pole and heat up your wiring a little less. Or probably just wire only one pole, I haven’t read the manual.


  • My guess is that they see their device controlling a heating element of unknown (to them) provenance as a liability. My zen15 manual specifically has a warning against using it with heaters.

    CAUTION This is an electrical device - please use caution when installing and operating the Power Switch. Remote control of appliances may result in unintentional or automated activation of power. Do NOT use this Z-Wave device to control electric heaters or other appliances which produce the risk of fire, burns, or electrical shock when unattended.