The SSD on my iMac died a lingering death over 48 hours, RIP
But more importantly it took down Indigo.
With it the Heating system.
I am restoring OS to a standby Mac mini now.
While it is going.
I started thinking about fault tolerance in the system.
All the lights carried on working fine - using a couple of Hue Hubs - just lost the cool features - house shutdown, reactive lighting to Plex etc etc but fundamentally the lighting carried on working largely very well.
The Heating system had some failover.
I paired a wave thermostat with the boiler - so could just manually control that.
The Hot Water system a bit trickier - need manually turning on and off at the wave dual controller.
The zawave TRVs can be manually driven but not sure where they are getting their temp sensor now that Indigo is down and not receiving updates from Hue motion detectors/RFCOM Temp Sensors - so not entirely sure how that will work.
I was here so was able to start recovery process if I was away for a week....... my wife would kill me on my return!!!
So - ideas for making the heating subsystem more fault tolerant?
1. Find a standalone 'component' wave controller that controls heating system - it needs to be controllable from Indigo so I can do 'smarter stuff'
2. Buy a wave thermostat for each room controlled by wave TRV and associate them together and control the thermostat from Indigo/additional 'component' wave controller?
I am open to ideas thoughts anyone - but I need to make the heating system both smart and resilient.
Thanks all