Georg

I know the discussion has moved on a bit… but from doing some “research” (I think that is the new word for “googling”), it appears that not only Rob Lilleness has disappeared from the surface of this planet, but with him also his Richmond Capital Partners investment firm. They used to have a web presence (which I now can’t find anymore) that listed Smartlabs/insteon as one of their prime investments. All news about them is five years old. Without the backing of a solvent company, there’s a slim chance that subsidiaries who haven’t been able to generate any revenue for the past two years will stay afloat. Where to go now? I think the only company that possibly could have an interest in gobbling up the remainders (and IP) would be Nokia - but the question is if they really want to go into the smart home business themselves, instead of just licensing their name and get cash for it. As long as my ISY works, I probably am fairly safe. I have been adding a few Z-Wave devices - but integration is spotty (e.g. if one is controller of a scene - not all “responders” respond to the Z-wave device). Let’s hope that Thread and Matter will, at some point, offer ways of integration to tide us into the future. The achilles heel of the Insteon/ISY combination of course is the PLM - but that, apparently, can be fixed if it fails. It requires some soldering, replacing low-quality capacitors that break (e.g. see here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174552309995). My lights have not gone out just yet.