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I tried to come up with situations in which a thread needs to be open for more than a year with no replies and I could come up with none.

My aforementioned posts are referring to old threads In general- with or without replies.

I've located one within 3 minutes, dated almost a year ago.  At the time of this post, the OP's last visit was 55 minutes ago, and his/her request In a subsequent post, Is yet to be fulfilled as per below.

thanks buddy and which hardware you use for home automation in open source only ?

Edit:
Here's a thread with no replies from February last year.

The OP's question Is (obviously) yet to be answered, and his/her last visit was a little over 4 weeks ago.
Found this In 6 minutes.