For me also the simplest way to access the wallet was via peakd.com.
The first thing I did there was stopping the power down of the hive power.
What I did is:
use keychain for steem related things with steempeak.com and peaklock for hive related things on peakd.com.
And - in case you did not know yet: you can transfer liquid steem to hive now via blocktrades.us.