Seems like it was a short christmas season - I'll bet everyone was just busy doing it, without as much time to play with automation. I did manage to get a few new IP cameras up and a new NVR so my security has been beefed up quite a bit! Now if I open the NVR screen at the office with the audio on, it feels just like I'm back in my home office with the window open.
Had to redo my light scheduling - I forgot just how much thought had been put into my Elve holiday rules when I scrapped the install and went with a clean and fresh 2.0 install on a new server. The last few years I had just plugged in the appliance modules, turned on the breaker to the UPB outlet in my eaves that's dedicated to xmas lights, and they just automatically picked up the schedule... this year we were all manual for the first week until I sat down and reprogrammed it all. Of course I have a scene switch in the front room that has 2 buttons set up already for outdoor and indoor xmas lights, and the indoor lights already respond to things like "downstairs off" and "whole house off" so it wasn't too bad.