u/geok54

So I recently bought a new (used) Subaru Outback and got a 3-month "Platinum Trial." For reference, I have a paid plan in another vehicle, and have had SXM for years. Anyway, what happens is I send a refresh signal and get the trial working until I shut the car off, then when I restart the car the subscription is gone and I have to send another refresh.

I called support and explained the problem, and got shunted to "advanced technical support" who told me this is apparently a widespread problem with Subaru Outbacks and "engineering is working on it." In the meantime, I have to send a refresh *every time* I want the radio to work.

Yeah, sorry, this is just bullshit.

If there's something I should read first, please let me know. But we have sort of inherited a house that's about a 4-hour drive away. It is pretty limited in terms of electrical, heating, etc., but I want to install a few Z-Wave thermostats (it has three heating zones) and have the ability to monitor and control the temperature when we're not there. This is an area that gets cold in winter. The infrastructure does not support Nest-type devices or, in fact, any C-wire stuff. I want to avoid WiFi because there's insufficient power. Is HA with a few Honeywell T6's the answer? And what do I do about remote monitoring/control?

Again, sorry for being a n00b. I have lots of professional experience with networking (i.e. multiple Cisco certs) but no real experience in this space.

Reading a number of comments here of citizenship by descent from a mother or grandmother, a simple question (I have previously filled out a template, but based on my father.) My mother was born in Polish-controlled Lwow/L'viv in 1917. I was born to her, in wedlock, in 1954 in the US. Is that it, basically open and shut?

Grandparent: 

* Sex: M

* Date, place of birth: 1886, Bolekhiv, Stanyslaviv region, Austro-Hungary/Poland/Ukraine

* Date married: 1912

* Citizenship of spouse: Ukrainian

* Date divorced: N/A

* Occupation: Teacher

* Allegiance and dates of military service: No military service, was delegate of UNDO to the Sejm in 1935-38

• Date, destination for emigration:
• Date naturalized: N/A
• Date, place of death: ~1943, Komi Republic, Siberia

Grandparent: 

* Sex: M

* Date, place of birth: 1887, Kołodziejówka, Stanyslaviv region, Austro-Hungary/Poland/Ukraine

* Date married: 1916

* Citizenship of spouse: Ukrainian

* Date divorced: N/A

* Occupation: Engineer

* Allegiance and dates of military service: Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1915-1918

• Date, destination for emigration:
• Date naturalized: N/A
• Date, place of death: 1941, Kraków

Parent: 

* Sex: M

* Date, place of birth: 1914, Stryj, Galicia

* Date married: 1939, Kraków

* Date divorced: N/A

* Occupation: Physician

* Allegiance and dates of military service: Polish Army medical corps, 1938-39

• Date, destination for emigration: 1945, Austria then 1949, US
• Date naturalized: 1954
• Date, place of death: 1981, New York, USA

Parent: 

* Sex: F

* Date, place of birth: 1917, Lwow/L'viv, Galicia

* Date married: 1939, Kraków

* Date divorced: N/A

• Date, destination for emigration: 1945, Austria then 1949, US
• Date naturalized: 1954
• Date, place of death: 2012, New York, USA

You: 

* Date, place of birth: 1954, New York, USA

Given my age, this is probably more of an academic exercise, but will at least be useful for my children should they choose to apply. The sticking point may be my father, as I understand from other posts here that being a physician (medical doctor) is an issue. To clarify, he completed medical school in Lwow/L'viv in ~1938, when Galicia was under Polish control. He was conscripted into the Polish army as a doctor, was taken as a German POW after the 1939 invasion, but was released fairly shortly and remained in Krakow until the Germans re-took L'viv in 1941, when he moved back there. He worked in a public hospital there (Народна Клініка/Narodna Clinica) until 1945, when he was displaced to Austria. He worked there from 1945-1949, not clear in what facility, then emigrated to the US in 1949, where within two years he went to work for himself (private practice.) Does this block me/my children?

If it matters, everyone in this template considered themselves ethnically Ukrainian, and were UGC, but all (except me) were fluent in Polish.