MJohnson05

I have a degree in that stuff... I just never bothered to investigate whether or not my bum PLMs could be repaired! My loss.

Nope... threw em out years ago. I think I've been on the current one for 2-3 years now. If I had dug into it more and found that I could repair them, I'd have kept them around!

oh geeze... yeah... we're dead in the water if a PLM fails. I think I've gone through three of them in the last 10 years.

Wasn't there something on the Smarthome site about Insteon and Nokia teaming up? Is that kaput now, too?

Well, the last few days have been fun. I haven't been on this forum in YEARS now, and my old login doesn't work. I have an Insteon Hub and specifically used it just for Alexa and Google Home integration, because when I bought it, the only Universal Devices option (that I knew about) was the Network Module that was like $50/year. I didn't want to pay that much. I keep the ISY994i running to automate a lot using schedules, conditions and API calls (from Tasker via my Android phone) and IFTTT. Android 12 added a nice shortcut in the pulldown menu, so I had been using that for a few lights via the Hub. Well, that stopped working... so I dug into it, set up an ISY Portal account, paid the $23 for 2 years of service (not a bad rate, IMO), updated firmware and got it all set up and connected to my Google account. Now the quick settings in my pulldown menu work fine again, and I added a couple scenes to add to Routines. It's nice to see the Portal stuff... the ISY has always seemed to me to be much more of a "tinkerer's device" than anything that could be mainstream. The Portal makes it a bit more consumer-friendly, IMO, but it's still pretty advanced. It's still kinda a pisser that Insteon just shut down Hub connection with NO communication. I remember last year or so, they sent a few emails saying they were working on the mobile app to try to improve the experience. That was kinda nice, as Insteon seemed to have a "don't give a sh** about the consumer, buy our stuff or don't, we don't care!" attitude. I hope they do continue to exist and produce hardware... I don't want my ISY setup to go to waste or have to be replaced as I go. The whole setup just gives me functionality that I think would be a bit difficult to duplicate elsewhere.