Appreciate your efforts.

This player is so close to replacing dsub/dsub2000 for me. But I really miss the background song cache in dsub. Tempus makes it more of an explicit action to download.

Ah yeah these would be 120v sonoff has other Euro spec stuff, I’ve seen some switches, so there may be a 240v equivalent.

Honestly day to day I couldn’t tell you the difference between zwave and zigbee they act as you’d expect and the UI updates status the same. The main difference is the setup and disconnect procedures, which can be even device specific.

Couple of things your issue with losing status for zigbee items is that they are expecting constant power to report status (switched on or off) so putting those devices on switched outlets won’t work well. This is true for both zwave and zigbee.

I have both zigbee and zwave devices. I find that having both is useful zigbee has a good selection of plug-in outlet devices, sensors(motion temperature ect). There’s a really good deal outlet 4 pack sonoff on Amazon. Zwave is great for smart switches basically anything hardwired, switches, dimmers, fan controllers, ect.

I have plenty of server storage. Can mx route be used almost like a mail proxy? Mail stored locally and mx route used for just receiving and sending? Needs to be spouse friendly as well. Or if anyone else can recommend something else that fits that bill more.

Yep same DDClient is super simple to setup with name cheap. Followed ip address changes with very little if any down time. I’ve never noticed between ip changes.

Commercial data centers. Auto scaling infrastructure and just sheer scale. At $2 it may be at cost or a loss to generate future sales.