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Smartlabs has changed out several capacitors to help improve the two year failure rate. They have also removed the ALL ON / ALL OFF commands to help resolve that issue. All of the latest production hardware have also removed the same command sets. ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

Its pretty much a good bet the problem you're seeing is because the 99 Series Controllers 3.3.10 firmware does not support the latest Insteon hardware. I would suggest you move forward and take advantage of the upgrade program. Besides not supporting the latest Insteon hardware your controller doesn't support the latest encryption which impacts you being able to connect to cloud hosted mail services like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. You also miss out on the extensive updates to the core operating system like variables, weather, and miss out on the opportunity to seamlessly integrate new services and hardware like Amazon Echo, IFTTT, Sonos, etc.

One added question which specific model of ISY do you have and how many devices are in the network?

It should be noted that since the pending Canada Post strike was resolved there was a *Blue Flu* going on. So if your item is entering Hongcouver it has been delayed up to two extra weeks. How do I know this you may ask?? Because my dear friend BBB from Arizona sent me some items and it was pending and not cleared through customs for 2.5 weeks. The Canada Post agent stated all of the above in a more PC manner. Regardless the posties got their raises and what not so its a matter of pushing the mail and parcels forward.

OK, just watched the video and have to say - Sold! I've seen lots of iBeacon's but none of them illustrate the real world use cases as seen in this video. Considering it has a open API a RPi is more than likely the key to integrate it with the ISY Series Controller. Thank you for taking the time to share this great KS campaign.

LOL . . .

Do it . . Do it . . . Do it . . . Do it . . . Do it . . . Break down and just do it! LOL

Is there a link and does it say *Canada* is part of this roll out?!?! Nothing pisses me off more than to see Canada treated like a 3rd world country given we are literally next door and do the most commerce of any nation.

Yes, those 1.5 firmware AL's are really old and I forgot a load needed to be placed on them to operate correctly. Going off memory some of the hardware I have on hand when you tried to turn the device on-off. If there was no load on the device a red (!) would appear. A lay person would think there was some kind of comm issue but in reality the device just needed an attached load to be present. Very happy this odd behavior was corrected in future iterations of Insteon hardware because that just didn't make sense! I can only imagine the returns and service calls for this product!

Press and hold the AL set button to place it in linking mode. Select the two whirling arrows to add the device. ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

True, assuming you spent lots of money on a wireless speaker a person might be better off with a echo to start with. For me the Dot will be used as designed and intended. That is giving me the ability to integrate it with old school A/V hardware. Secondary use case is having the ability to mount it to the ceiling or random place given its smaller height. As an aside looking at the link offered by Stu. Does anyone think that ceiling mount could still be used with the new Gen 2 Dot? [emoji848] As the newer model is not as tall compared to the Gen 1. [emoji855] ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

I know this is added cost but a wireless speaker with better low end bass would help. Keeping in mind the first thing to go when people get older is the loss of high frequency aural reception. ☹️ ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

I would love to go there one day. It would be interesting to learn and perhaps measure not only direct / reflection but the decay rate, attack time, and reverberation factors. [emoji4][emoji847][emoji106] ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

I agree, having been involved with *Direct / Reflecting* technology with respect to sound for years. Lets see how Amazon's new OTA firmware update truly handles the real world sounds. As an aside when I was at Fort Worth TX and was watching the military's new sound detecting hardware during trials. All I can tell you is wow - technology has progressed so far in sound detection and force deployment. Anyone who has ever been struck by a focused sound beam knows its incredible. Much better than being blasted by their microwave beam . . .

Have a safe flight and bring me back a few umbrella drink sticks! Ha . . .

LOL, please create a new thread and it will be added in to said WiKi. Michel and team are pretty good at updating the information if something glaring is missing / omitted.

I may be over simplifying this but if two devices hear something it obviously goes to the cloud to be processed. What the Amazon team should be doing is simply ignoring / cancel out the other devices within ear shot. Don't know why that would be so hard to accomplish considering its just a comparator? The system already tracks what you say and is recorded for later historic recall. All they need to do is track that voice command and ignore any others in range. No??

I am eager to find out once the new units are in peoples hands or when the OTA is released. Then, those who have more than one can reply back.

But, but, but I was being serious . . .

Can you rephrase that question again?

I agree even though I'm not that old (I know its subjective ask my daughter) they simply don't build things like they used to. Its pretty funny to watch and hear people comment when they enter the home and see all of the stereo hardware. Then, the next question is wheres the XX surround sound? LOL . . . I suppose most are really confused because by looking at me none of them believe old school technology is of interest to me or even have old school gear to start with. Rock On . . .

I believe based on the (few) reports this was really a variability in Q/A and as time went on this was corrected. My hopes are to integrate some really old school A/V gear with new school technology like the Dot. My DBX, Bryston, Nakamichi, Sony ES, Onkyo Integra, Pioneer Elite, etc have been sitting idle for years all neglected LOL.

The benefit for me for the Dot is having the ability to insert web content which is not possible from other hardware solutions which only do one thing. I've been around lots of the so called *Golden Ears* in my travels and when presented with a A-B comparator everyone has always failed to distinguish more reasonable interconnects. I won't go so far as using lamp cord which so many news prints always speak of because at specific (tone) frequencies they can be distinguished. Given 99% of the population doesn't listen to tones its a moot point.

No, you can use any of the three devices to speak to Alexa and do what ever you want. You are correct in the past you needed to have an existing Echo or website to order the Dot during the soft launch.

I read that too and this is why I am eager to see reviews and feed back from others. Was the noise and pop consistent or did it come and go?