Mike Ippolito

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June 11, 2014 Encino, CA – Universal Devices, an industry leader in energy management and automation devices, announced today general availability of its enhanced weather reporting and forecast module. Together with HAMweather's Aeris service, users can now utilize weather data to make smart energy management decisions with the ISY994 platform. Simple logic can be used to control devices within the home or business and use the weather information to augment the intelligent decisions. By taking weather into consideration users have the power to intelligently decide how to control HVAC, Lighting, and Irrigation based on current and future events. The ISY994 platform is customizable with a variety of valuable modules offering a low cost platform that grows with the user. Adding to this functionality the HAMweather module provides 40 points of data such as temperature, humidity, wind, and intensity levels. Universal Devices Chief Product Officer, Mike Ippolito said “The power of the ISY994 logic combined with the reliable weather from HAMweather is the missing piece in (home & business) automation.†With current and forecast weather, the ISY994 series controllers provide unprecedented flexibility and cost savings when combined with Utility-based Demand Response initiatives such as OpenADR and Smart Energy Profile (SEP.) “Weather forecasts are a valuable tool for load reduction initiatives,†said Barry Haaser, managing director, OpenADR Alliance. “By providing weather information to OpenADR2.0 certified devices, customers can make informed decisions about whether to opt in or out of a demand response event or to pre-cool their premises in advance of the event.†The Universal Devices ISY994 series provides users a low cost automation platform for truly controlling energy costs. The ISY994 is the most powerful automation controller for home, business, and industry. Capable of communicating with a wide variety of off-the-shelf devices such as thermostats, lighting, A/V equipment, and pumps wirelessly using ZigBee, Z-Wave, Inseton, or via Network and direct contacts. In addition the ISY994 series, when properly equipped, can read energy consumption from individual devices and smart meters. Unlike other solutions that use ‘the cloud’ to process and store information, the ISY994 allows users to keep their information private by running everything local, but yet accessible from a variety of devices. The weather module is available today for installation on all ISY994 series products. More information is available at http://www.universal-devices.com

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As I've stated before we're looking at many different options. I'm busily working through the requirements and constraints of the project to come up with a good solution that blends our desire not to depend on cloud services with a user interface that works well for the masses. It's week 3 people.. give me some breathing room As far as creating a "kickstarter-esqe" project, I'm not comfortable 'selling' something that will eventually be available to everyone. A good user interface is not something I want to charge a premium for. However, we are in the process of creating a "Friends and Family" round to help fund many of the requests you've all been asking for such as the enhanced user interface, more robust hardware, etc. As this round is only available to accredited investors, I cannot discuss any details in an open forum, but please feel free to contact me via PM or directly at michael (at) universal-devices (com) for further details and an accredited investor package.

I suppose this is as good as time as any to come out from behind the shadows and announce my presence. No hiding behind user names here (although I did steal an old employee's forum account under "Michael"), I'm Mike Ippolito, and I've joined the team as UDI's Chief Product Officer. I'm in week two with UDI, but not completely wet behind the ears, I've been working with Michel and Chris for over a year on a variety of projects and have finally joined the team full time. The user experience (UX/UI) is dear to my heart and very near the top of my list. I agree there is much work to do and Michel and I have had many a discussion about how to implement it in an elegant and responsive way. We're evaluating many different technologies and models before we start building prototypes for you all to evaluate. The challenge is simplicity without sacrificing security. The ISY is unique as a (multipurpose stand-alone) platform that can be connected or disconnected from the 'cloud' and work autonomously. We want to make sure to respect those who want a closed network by implementing only client side technologies, while giving extended functionality to those that would like a seamless transition between intra- and internet connectivity. Without spilling the beans too much there is change for the good coming in our product mix and I welcome all and any comments (on or off the forums) to get us to a place we can all be proud of. Feel free to reach out to me just use my forum username (at) universal-devices.com Best, Mike I Universal Devices ------ This post may include forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases such as UDI or its management “believes,†“expects,†“anticipates,†“foresees,†“forecasts,†“estimates†or other words or phrases of similar import. Similarly, statements herein that describe UDI's business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions or goals also are forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements.

The things we use home automation for! Excellent idea! My initial thought is to use the mobilinc app and enable the geofence function. The question is if: a) you carry an iPhone if your location and your car's location are typically synonymous. If you're not always with your car, perhaps an alternative (but expensive) solution is to keep an iPod touch in the car running mobilinc. I'll continue to ponder... Mike

I'm using station KCEF to get my weather info from the plugin. Tonight we were discussing whether to actually turn off the A/C and open the windows.. finally! When I looked at the weatherbug rss feed in my ISY it showed: However when I went to the Weatherbug website it showed: While not that different, the low temp for tonight is different, in fact different enough to be a factor in opening the windows... Anyone know why there' s a difference? - Yes it's the same station, Yes I re-pulled data at the same exact time....

I really missed the fact that we can now act on temp, when was that released? That makes things MUCH easier!

Will this program properly trigger the state of the variable when the thermostat is between 50 and 64? Is this the best way to do it? If From 12:00:01AM To 11:59:00PM (same day) And ( Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 50° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 51° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 52° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 53° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 54° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 55° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 56° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 57° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 58° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 59° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 60° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 61° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 62° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 63° (Temperature ) Or Status 'Thermostats / Third Floor Thermostat' is 64° (Temperature ) ) And ( $sMonth < 5 Or $sMonth > 9 ) Then $sCold.on.3rd.Floor = 1 Else Wait 10 minutes Run Program 'Cold.on.3rd.Floor' (If)

do you only have an ISY? I use the RCS TZ45's, but they're Zwave and hooked up to my elk. How many HVAC units do you have? Do you have a zone controller?

I have the following program running to cycle my fan on my HVAC units. I am trying to figure out if I have an issue with signals not reaching the thermostats or my repeat function is being knocked out by IF becoming false. I'm having issues with the program not returning the fans to auto when 11:00pm hits if the program is in the middle of a cycle. Is this a programming issue (IF turning false during a repeat) or an issue with the communication?

Turning off UPNP on the Netgear router stopped all the traffic. Thanks.

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue and I ran across these errors in my log. The IP address' the ISY is using are not listed anywhere in my ISY setup. When I look to see what devices they are it's even more strange: 10.0.0.121 and ..120 - DirectTV Receiver 10.0.0.10 is the macbook I'm running (I'm guessing it's the admin console) Any idea why the ISY is flooding my network with requests to my DirecTV boxes? Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.120:33306->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/desc Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.121:37068->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/desc Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.121:37069->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/desc Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.118:38264->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/services.wsdl Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.118:38265->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/services.wsdl Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.120:33307->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/services.wsdl Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.121:37070->80 Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 0: GET-->/services.wsdl Sun 2012/12/02 09:58:05 AM System -170001 [HTTP] 10.0.0.118:38266->80 Sun 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does the new firmware allow two logins? I seem to be having lockup issues when I have the admin console open and my mobilinc Pro (iphone app) tries to access the server. Mike

Trying to see if I have this setup right or I'm missing something: I have a keypadlinc controlling my dining room light. On the opposite wall I have a switchlinc to control it also. The load is on the keypadlinc. I setup a scene in the 99i for the dining light and added both switches. I'm expecting the switchlinc to update it's led status based on the on/off status of the dining room light when controlled by the keypadlinc but it is not. When I control the light (scene) with the 99i the led correctly shows in the on position - but not when I use the keypadlinc. Is this normal behavior? Shouldn't the switchlinc update itself?