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Hello. I'm nearing the end of building out my basement area. and it's time for the fun - the electronics. I'm considering adding some home automation in the house, and I'd like to smart small and grow. The ISY-99i looks very interesting. I'd like you to tell me if Insteon and the ISY-99i are a good solution for me. 1. Home Theatre lighting. I'll first have two banks of lights that I want to control via an infrared remote control - a Logitech Harmony. I want to trigger scenes, etc., from that remote. 2. In addition to the remote, I'd like a keypad on the wall that controls the scenes, as well. From what I understand, this Insteon keypad will control its "local" lights via the internal dimmer, as well as the scenes, etc. of other dimmers. 3. Upstairs, near the top of the stairs, I want a keypad that will control the lights downstairs - "All Off", etc. The switch I'd replace is a 3-way switch that controls the lights going downstairs. It's counterpart is at the bottom of the stairs. While this keypad will only be able to control the 3 sets of lights - the 2 home theatre banks and the stairs - someday I'll expand the lights that I can control downstairs. I may even want to do trigger the thermostat down there to turn down (using a future Insteon thermostat). 4. I want to have a bedsite keypad in our bedroom that tells us the status of the 2 garage doors via its LED lights. If they're open, I'd trigger them to close (or get up and go close them, probably the safer option). 5. In the future, I want to have insteon dimmers on our hall/path lighting upstairs. I'll have motion detectors in these areas, so if somebody gets up AND it's DARK out, the lights will come on very faintly. After a certain amount of time, they'll fade back to off... 6. Water detection...I'd like, in the future, to trigger some sort of even if there's water detected in the basement - email, SMS message, etc. I'm not sure if there are water detection systems out there, but I'd like it to happen. What would I purchase to being? The ISY-99i, a PLM, a phase-coupler, and, at first, the 4 Insteon switches (one for each bank of home theatre lights, 2 for the 3-way stairs lights). Anything else? Thanks, Kris

Hello. I'm considering buying an ISY-99 as a way to control a few lights in the house AND to serve as my "water sentry" in the basement. We've never had water in the basement, but alas, I have a water softener, a water heater, and other devices down there that contain water. There's also a sanitary sump and pump - it's alarmed, but what if nobody was around to hear it go off? Where there's water, there's a flood waiting to happen. We just finished the basement, and I can't stand the thought of water silently filling up the thing while we're at work. I'd like to create some sort of system that will email/txt message me if water has been detected. I'm a software developer, so writing the programs won't be a problem. It's the water detection itself. Is there an Insteon device that can do this? Are there different ways other than Insteon? Does anybody have any advice? Thanks, Kris