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Use this space to cheer the creator along, and talk to your fellow backers.
Have a question?
SECURIFI Creator on
@Kevin - All of this is coming. Automation will be via the local web UI initially and we're working on notifications for the iOS app, it'll just be out slightly behind the Android app.
As for the sensors, we're not sure what's going on, we've been working with our partners on this and they haven't been able to find the reason behind the issue.
SECURIFI Creator on
@Patrick - The reason for the delay is because you're asking for a refund rather than a replacement. Please understand that this is not something we'd normally offer over three months after shipping a product, even through retail channels. Had you asked for a replacement unit, it would've been done straight away.
Patrick Chan on
I regret backing this project - i received my until at around Oct 2014. Didn't have time to open and set it up until Dec 2014. The touch screen was already not too responsive when I set it up. I used the unit as a repeater. 3 weeks later (early Jan 2015) - the unit is not responding at all and the screen now shows split images and is impossible to interact.
I contacted the Securifi support and have been waiting for a reply for the next steps for weeks now.
I just want to share my experience with Securifi product and support.
I do hope my case is once off, and the other backers have received properly functioningl units.
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@Rhys - In supports explicit transmit beamforming, but not implicit beamforming which we guess it what you're asking for. The Almond+ can not be upgraded to support 600Mbps on 2.4GHz as the chipset we're using doesn't support it.
@Matt - We have a new firmware coming next week with better rules support that incorporates support for more device types as well.
Matt Davis on
So I bought all kinds of z-wave stuff (switches, dimmers, outlets, locks) and I was hoping to use the almond with them but the functionality is so limited and hasn't improved since I got it that I'm just going to get a dedicated controller. Does anyone have any recommendations? The automation implemented in the beta update really is a joke though.
Rhys Evans on
Does my almond + support beamforming? and will a firmware update give it access to do 600mb/s on wireless n? apparently its new tech that uses 40mhz spectrum..
SECURIFI Creator on
@Dennis - What firmware version are you using? Please see our forums for the latest beta firmware that will address a lot of Apple related connectivity issues - http://forum.securifi.com/
Dennis Althaus on
I use the Almond+ since I received it and will now switch back to my old router. I am not happy with it. Looses sometimes connection and no good connection to apple tv or kindle fire tv. With the old router no problems....
Amit Mishra on
I will echo the comments below on iPhone app automation/notifications! That is a critical feature for most backers!
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Sorry guys... I was in the wrong project... didn't mean to post that here... The Almond unlike the soap is doing great... Back button at the wrong time :-)
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I don't get responses to PM so I will try here...
I have a problem.
I paid for the Soap touch followed by the Indiegogo upgrade to 8.4... Imagine my disappointment when I received the touch, not with a 7" or even a 8.4" screen but the original tiny screen. What's up, and when will i get the upgraded Soap that I paid for?
Thomas A. Geng, Jr. on
Received my almond+ a few months ago, but didn't have time to set it up at that time. Now, I have set it up and found it to be easy to use. I am disappointed that there is no automation aspect to the software in the iOS app. I wasn't aware that this would be the case. I like that there is ease in use to turn on and off devices, but i would really like to put it on a timer instead of having to remember to shut it off.
I was able to connect the GE Link bulbs to the hub, but then I found out I could only turn on/off and dim with the app. I went out and bought the Wink hub ($20 at Home Depot when I bought two GE Link bulbs), which has very intuitive and easy to use automation features. I would like to connect everything to my almond+ since it seems that it will connect to more devices, but can't at this time due to no automation. Please get the automation software up and running as soon as you can.
Are there any plans to join IFTTT? This would also allow some low level of automation.
Santos Lozano on
Apple app update Please
pamir kiraner on
i have the Almond+ EU Sn CN14706029 - Can i use it also in USA ? Thanks .
Grazziani Colombo on
I didn't receive my product or my money back yet.
I need feedback about my situation in Brazil.
SECURIFI Creator on
@Nick - Please see http://wiki.securifi.com/index.php…
The WeMo switches uses Wi-Fi and wouldn't be connected using the Add Sensor option in the LCD UI. They would connect over Wi-Fi and requires the use of the WeMo app.
Nick Brown on
is there a list of supported sensors? I'd like to use the wemo switches but they don't seem to work with the Almond+ network, and I can't add them from the router.
Amit Mishra on
Door sensors, I'm sure others will chime in if they own other sensors where they see this problem.
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@Amit - Hopefully within the next month on Android, possibly a little bit longer for iOS. It's nearly done and it's in fact already working in the Android app, but we need to tweak things on the cloud end before we release it.
As for the battery indication, what sensor(s) is this happening on?
Santos Lozano on
Please urgent notifications for door sensors
Amit Mishra on
Thanks, I guess I was asking about the timeline for when you expect that feature to roll out in the app. Also the low battery indication is intermittent, it goes and comes back. Right now,i don't see the warning but I'm sure it will be back in a day or two. It's flaky.
SECURIFI Creator on
Sorry for the late reply. Notifications is in firmware R069 which we released last week. However, we still have a little bit of work to do on the cloud side before we can release the new apps that support notifications.
As for the low battery issue, we're still waiting for a reply from our sensor partner on this and we'll chase them again to see if they have any clarity in this issue. Do note that when you just add a sensor, it can report low battery for a little while, but it normally recovers within 30 minutes tops.
Amit Mishra on
Oh another question, since I have put the batteries in the sensors, they have shown me the low battery message. Is that a software glitch you are aware of or were the batteries indeed bad from the get go?
Amit Mishra on
Any update on when Alert notifications will be rolled out for the sensors? Thanks
SECURIFI Creator on
@Farrhad - It's not something we've worked on, nor was it something that was explicitly promised at any point of the Kickstarter campaign, but we're aware that there's interest from our backers. Right now the priority is on improving the Almond+ performance and already included features before we'd start to work on something like this.
SECURIFI Creator on
@James - We released a new firmware yesterday, it doesn't fix all the issues and we'll have a beta version later this week with new a Wi-Fi driver and some other fixes, we suggest you try that version once it's available. Apologies for delivering a product that's disappointing, it was not our goal.
James Gillean on
I dislike my 3 year old DLink router but it works better and has more features than the Almond+. My Almond+ just sits in a box collecting dust. It's too horrible to give away even. If it doesn't get usable firmware in the next 6 months then it's going in the trash.
SECURIFI Creator on
@David - Please contact our support team - email@example.com
David Meier on
I have to say, waht a disappointing product. Is there a way to get a refund? Compared to my Ubiquiti wireless AP and my Vera Lite for Z-Wave - the Securifi Almond+ is barely half baked and completely useless.
Nirav Patel on
Hi All,
I finally got TNT drop the additional delivery charge and only paid the custom/excise duty that was due.
I had to send them multiple emails and then a written letter and pay the custom duty directly into their bank account.
TNT were very slow to respond to any communication, and I tried phone, email, twitter, and letter.
SECURIFI Creator on
@Parisri - As per the PM we sent you, please contact the support team.
@Leandro - Please contact our support team - firstname.lastname@example.com. It'll be hard to exchange the unit for you though.
@Jeremy - Have you reset them? Press and hold the button for 10-12 seconds to reset them, then try to add them again.
Daniel on
@Jeremy, @Lenadro, @Parisri. You guys will get a faster response taking your messages to their forum. They are winding down on here.
Leandro Serrão Franco on
Good afternoon. I live in Brazil and received my almond + 3 days ago. I updated it to the latest firmware (R066) and was using normally until this morning. No more sign of the router on my smartphone. I went to see what had happened and saw that the screen was even stuck with the words securifi with a white background. I tried a hard reset with the stylus, pressing for 5 seconds as explained in the faq site, but still stuck on the same screen. After about five minutes the router restarts and begins the process again and again. The only way to reset is to disconnect from the outlet. As he does not leave the home screen I do not have access to the web version through the ip 10.10.10.254. I do not know what else I can do. I request a response from suport the earliest ... Thanks


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My first class was Vinyasa 1. I was familiar with the yoga poses from a DIY yoga DVD. My attempt to follow a routine at home proved more difficult than I anticipated, because the instructions were not clear enough for my yoga newbie mind to understand. My at home downward facing dog was uncomfortable. Was it uncomfortable because it was a new experience or because I was doing it incorrectly? I think yoga is an aging-joint appropriate form of moving my body, and I wanted to learn how to do the poses correctly.
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Notably absent from Hillary Clinton's Sunday video announcement–her husband and former President Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton, who said that he will initially be a "backstage adviser" to Clinton's campaign, is nowhere to be found in the announcement video, perhaps indicating that Clinton's campaign does not want voters to associated her with Bill Clinton's baggage.
Her supporters have been reportedly debating whether Bill Clinton should even be at her wife's side during her formal announcement, which her campaign chairman John Podesta said will come sometime next month.
As Breitbart News noted, "in 2008, Hillary Clinton's aides were worried that rumors of Bill Clinton's numerous alleged hook-ups and affairs would undermine her campaign and remind voters of Monica Lewinsky, the blue dress, and impeachment." Not much seems to have changed. Writing in the Observer, Ken Silverstein warned that Clinton's "ties to convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein may potentially 'derail' Hillary Clinton's presidential bid."
Even Hillary Clinton herself warned Obama when he was considering her to be his secretary of state that Bill Clinton could be a "problem" for the administration.
"You know my husband," she reportedly told Obama in 2009. "You know I can't control him, and at some point he'll be a problem."
In 2008, as Breitbart News noted, Bill Clinton arguably "did more harm than good to his wife's campaign." He referred to Obama's campaign as a big "fairy tale," trying "to diminish Obama's win in the South Carolina primary by comparing him to Jesse Jackson." That angered black voters who viewed Clinton's comments as an "affront." One activist wrote in The Grio that Hillary Clinton's service at Obama's State Department "does not mean black voters will completely forget the bitter, racially tinged presidential campaign politics of seven years ago."
Bill Clinton, though, took issue with reports that Hillary Clinton's campaign may not want to deal with all of that baggage as Hillary tries to again reset her image, dismissing a New York Times report on the matter as "creative writing."


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How I Avoided Weaning-Induced Depression
It was an emotional challenge for me to stop breastfeeding, but these tricks kept me from despair.
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I had leftover threaded rod and sub-par frame vertices, so I threw together a spindle based on this: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4337.
Makerbot sells a box for $95, but it sounded expensive for a box. I think my solution will total less than $8 (at the most) and sit neatly on top of my MakerBot. Keeping things simple and compact as possible were my priorities. I love that Mendel parts will be feeding the MakerBot! I will post a pic when it is finished and mounted. Filament issues have caused many failed prints. I have not seen anyone use this simple approach on the CupCake yet…. send me pics if you have!


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Measure for Measure
Reviewed by Katie Buenneke
Independent Shakespeare Company
Through July 22
To produce Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is to wrestle with morality. Like so many of the Bard's other works, Measure for Measure has a sense of timelessness to it — characters in the play were having the same arguments 400 years ago that we're having today.
Though Measure for Measure is ostensibly about justice and whether rulers should follow the letter of the law, Independent Shakespeare Company's production, now playing in Griffith Park, shines an unflinching light on the sexual politics at the crux of the play. Indeed, the biggest moral quandary here isn't whether fornication is a sin that should be punished by death, but instead whether a rapist can (or should) be forgiven.
The play's plot centers on Isabella (Kalean Ung), a young woman in Vienna who is pure of heart and body. Her brother Claudio (Evan Lewis Smith) has been arrested for engaging in premarital sexual relations with his fiancée and, under the puritanical reign of temporary despot Angelo (William Elsman), has been sentenced to death. Isabella is determined to save her brother's life, and enlists the help of Friar Lodovico (David Melville) who is actually the Duke of Vienna in disguise.
Angelo is beguiled by Isabella's beauty, and offers her a compromise: if she sleeps with him, he'll pardon Claudio, saving his life. The very idea is abhorrent to Isabella, and though she loves her brother dearly, she refuses to sleep with Angelo. The Duke comes up with the perfect solution to her problem: she'll tell Angelo she'll sleep with him, but he'll actually be sleeping with his ex-fiancée, Mariana (April Fritz), unbeknownst to him.
Though Shakespeare's plays are typically categorized as comedies, tragedies or histories, Measure for Measure is part of a fourth genre, known as problem plays (other examples are All's Well That Ends Well and Troilus and Cressida), which have both comedic and tragic elements. Under Melissa Chalsma's direction, the tone varies wildly; there are big, bawdy moments with comic relief characters Mistress Overdone (Xavi Moreno) and Bum (Lorenzo González), and other more dramatic ones that portray Isabella's utter despair. The acting, as a whole, is overwrought (a common pitfall when performing in a large, outdoor venue), though Elsman offers shades of subtlety in his performance as Angelo.
Still, Angelo is the most troubling character. Though he doesn't actually rape Isabella — since he sleeps with his (consenting) fiancée instead — his intentions are clearly nefarious. Isabella repeatedly makes it clear that she does not wish to sleep with him, and threatens to expose the true nature of his character. Angelo, in a moment of pure villainy, replies, "Who will believe thee, Isabel?" This sentiment has not changed a whit in the intervening 400 years — just look at the dialogue around any recent major case involving sexual assault, from allegations against Bill Cosby and Johnny Depp to the recent suicide of a University of Alabama student who had accused a prominent member of the local community of raping her.
By the time the play's finale rolls around, the question of justice has been raised a few times. The consensus the characters arrive at is that premarital sex shouldn't be punishable by death, and everything appears well and good. But the Duke, having finally shed his disguise, goes a step further. He's prepared to sentence Angelo to death for his intended, if not actual, crimes against Isabella. The Duke puts Angelo's fate in Isabella's hands and, in the play's prickliest moment, asks if she's willing to forgive him. What is the proper punishment for a man who thought he was raping an innocent, unwilling woman? Isabella reasons that since his actions were pure, though his intentions weren't, Angelo should be acquitted and allowed to live. It's an overly simple answer to a knotty question, and it leaves a bad taste that can't be rinsed away, no matter how many peppy Beyonce songs Chalsma plays during the curtain call.
The Old Zoo in Griffith Park, Wed.- Sun., 7 p.m.; through July 22; iscla.org. Running time: 3 hours with a 20-minute intermission.
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Writing as we are about literature, there are certain elements that must be in every esssay. First, you want to name the author and the title of the work. Second, the particular themes you want to focus on, and third, the structural elements--irony, imagery, diction, tone, prosody, etc.--that express those themes. In other words, you have to have a point to make about HOW the poem expresses its WHAT, that is, its subject. Which, by the way, is usually something found beyond the first reading.
So: we can mix this up a little, but the formula should be something like this:
Billy Collins' poem "Whatever" is a delicately phrased sonnet that uses tactile images of decaying leaves and barren fields to evoke the futilty of a selfish love.


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Licensing Policies
Have your say on licensing policy in Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen
We are now collaborating with Torfaen County Borough Council to deliver licensing services for both authorities.
As part of this collaborative way of working we need to review our policies to ensure that they are fair and, where possible, consistent across both authorities. We are also taking this opportunity to develop a number of new policies.
The policies under development and review are:
1 Taxi licensing (hackney and private hire vehicles, drivers and operators)
2 Street trading
3 Street and house to house charity collections - new policy
4 Scrap metal collectors and dealers
5 Sex establishments (shops, cinemas and entertainments) - new policy
We welcome all comments and feedback, however, please consider the following in particular:
Is there an aspect of our licensing work that you don't think complies with the law or statutory guidance?
· Do you need tighter licensing regulation to protect your home and community?
· Do you need less regulation in order for your business to thrive?
· Is there anything within our current licensing policies that you think need to be dropped?
· Is there something that is missing from our current licensing polices?
· Is there anything else you want us to take into account when considering our licensing policies?
· This is the first stage of an on-going process that is due for completion by October 2018.
Why We Are Consulting
This is an opportunity for residents and business to review and comment on our licensing policies to help us ensure that they are fair, accountable, proportionate and transparent.
View the policies and access the online survey:
Closes 31 Oct 2017
Alison Hughes
(Licensing team leader for Torfaen)
01495 762200