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Hi Walt, I have the same experience (I'm about 30 miles north of you) with my PG&E Smartmeter. Lost communication a while back. Perhaps there's an issue on their end that needs to be resolved.

My light levels are all over the map and don't seem to follow any logic. I wonder if the stations are the problem?

Is it possible to have a system with both operating? What conflicts might arise?

Don't put too much faith in Weatherbug. I found my local stations to have enough errors or gaps in data to throw off the evapotranspiration calculations. Case in point: it's been raining for 4 days and the local school station is reporting 0 inches of rain. Never mind the lack of light data. This approach is fine from a hobbyist standpoint, but is not reliable enough for professional or home automation use. The latter requires 99+% reliability without user intervention. I have to constantly second-guess my ISY program to make sure the yard is watered properly (right now it's trying to water my plants in the middle of a thunderstorm!). It gets very old after a while! We need a 100% reliable source of information to base our evapotranspiration calculations on, and Weatherbug is not it.

Michel, This is the EXACT same problem I reported to you a few months ago. My PG&E Smartmeter no longer communicates with ISY either. I get the identical messages and behavior. GB

Don't kid yourselves: Google has only one objective - to find out anything it can about you and your habits, then sell this info to the highest bidder. There are NO good intentions there! NEST is their best current bet for discovering what you do at home; other cloud-based sensors are good targets as well. Makes the SmartMeter paranoia look like child's play in comparison. Long live ISY!

I seem to have lost the ability to read my SmartMeter; even though it is connected, there's a red exclamation mark and the time appears to be un-synchronized. How do I resolve this?

Nothing happens if I select Floor Plan in my ISY.

Another vote for MobiLinc.

I would be interested in hooking up an Axis P7214 Network IP Video Encoder to my ISY system - it accommodates 4 analog video cameras. Will that interface with my ISY994iPro?

Can we have a sticky with the "ideal" program for Garage Doors? It seems like everyone is asking the same questions.

I would suggest you use the Insteon LED Bulb in each can: http://www.smarthome.com/2672-222/INSTEON-LED-Bulb/p.aspx

I think you should reconsider, Michel, and here is why: The $10K expense, although not small from a cash flow perspective, is peanuts when you view it as a marketing and sales investment. If you go to the PG&E website at the link above, you'll see a list of only 6 approved HAN devices, none of which are as good as the ISY. Since ALL PG&E customers have to visit this page to start the process, it only follows that a good number of them will actually view the list of devices - it's a great advertising exposure for Universal Devices. Now comes the good part: all small and medium business customers in California (PG&E and SCE) will be on mandatory time varying pricing by the end of 2014. For some this is OK, but for quite a few of them it is a problem that can only be mitigated through smart energy management (as is possible with ISY, not so good with HAN displays that require customer action). The utility will encourage HAN use as part of the mitigation. That is about 1,000,000 (yes, one million) potential customers for you. But wait, there's more: all residential customers will be put on time varying pricing over the next 2-5 years as well, with the same issues. Your potential market there: close to 10,000,000 (yes, ten million) households. For PG&E only, you can use half of those numbers for your total available market. Spending $10K to reach about 5.5M customers is not a bad deal in my book!

Michel, Has the ISY been validated by the PG&E HAN team? If not, I strongly recommend you do so as soon as possible. It would put it on the list of approved devices on their website. Here is the link: http://www.pge.com/myhome/saveenergymoney/energysavingprograms/han/validateddevice/index.shtml

The PG&E SmartMeter is provided by Silver Spring Networks. Their customer support may be of help: http://www.silverspringnet.com/services/customer-support/#.UW7rVbXvsrU