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Week 6. This seems like the perfect time to sum up our experience so far and end the weekly diary as everything has settled down and there is really not much to report. We'll still update when something happens or more importantly if something does not happen that should. We will instead divert our attentions to the huge pile of home automation gear that needs our attention for our youtube channel. Anyway back to the heating.... The Honeywell support team finally came back to us after some more chasing and once I'd had an email from their team in the UK they answered my question the same day. Readers of the blog will recall we wanted to know if Alexa should be able to report the hot water temperature. We'd not been able to get this to work but it seemed reasonable it should as its just another zone with a temperature.  Our hopes were shot down instantly (instantly after 6 weeks of trying to get the answer) as we're told this is not a feature.  If I'm honest ...

5 weeks. So what's been happening since our update last week ?. Well actually nothing!. OK, I appreciate that does not make for very exciting reading but it's certainly what anyone would want from a heating system so from that perspective I've got no complaints. Evohome has just been quietly doing it's thing, happy days.  It's working a little harder in the mornings now its' a lot colder outside but that's about all there is to report.  Alexa is getting quite a lot of use to nudge the lounge temperature up a few degrees in the evenings but the process remains simple and reliable, in fact so reliable it puts some other Alexa commands to shame (as some are less reliable). We introduced a new Echo to test out the latest amazon hardware this week, we were not that impressed but that's a different story and too far off topic for this blog.  I will just say the new shorter Echo is more an up sell for the dot rather than a cheaper option for the origina...