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I need a dozen dimmers to replace dead 2476Ds. Guess I will keep waiting for a sale and experimenting with newer wifi models. I'd love to see a customer appreciation sale or similar. Let me mail back dead 2476Ds for 50% off from replacement 2477Ds.

Sold by Amazon, shipped by Amazon means Amazon bought these wholesale from Smartlabs and is reshipping them. I can't find any listings directly for sale from SmartLabs. I think their marketing person must have quit. They used to directly sell on Amazon.

Look on the right side below the yellow buttons -- Ships and sold by PhotonLight.com This whole "Insteon Store" is not SmartLabs. It is simply someone buying the devices from SmartLabs and reselling them to you at a markup for the convenience of shipping them via Amazon. SmartLabs could shut this down in a minute if they were to put up their own store.

Amazon is not selling those, sold by: PhotonLight.com, Inc. 2646 Willamette St Eugene OR 97405 Some nice person is taking your Amazon order, buying retail from Smarthome and then reshipping the devices to you. Taking about $10 a device for their trouble. Smarthome, Inc not paying attention and running their own store on Amazon. Someone in this shady looking building.... https://www.google.com/maps/place/2646+Willamette+St,+Eugene,+OR+97405/@44.0292237,-123.0897295,125a,35y,281.02h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54c11e53951789e1:0x3d0cc7542b533288!8m2!3d44.0296092!4d-123.0912011

Have you tried the Kasa Dimmers? https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-HS220-Dimmer-Switch-1-Pack/dp/B079775ZZQ/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2ZKNJ0CGO6NMM

The big three are walled, but what can you do about it? What I don't want is 20 different wall gardens in my house. I can live with having one of the big three since there is little I can do about that. Personally I am getting annoyed with Tuya devices. Tuya has multiple walled gardens. If the vendor using Tuya pays the $100K fee for white labeling, Tuya makes them their own garden to play in now those devices don't interoperate with other Tuya devices. I have given up on Tuya and I reflashed the devices I could access the flash pins on with open source code. Also, Matter not going to be in stores until next summer earliest.

Matter certification process will block uncooperative vendors from partially implementing the spec. If a device wants to use the Matter logo it will have to support multi-admin. As for what has changed -- I think the big three are fed up with the walled garden model and they intend to tear it down. Obviously this works to their advantage. They are going to commoditize the devices while simultaneously making it difficult for competing platforms to emerge. Homekit failed because part of the deal was that Apple took 7% of your revenue. Soon as a I saw that the paperwork when into the trash can.

The obvious thing for UD to do is to build a Matter proxy into the ISY. That proxy would expose all of the devices connected to the ISY as Matter devices. UD might want to spend the $7K to join Matter since it will let you exhibit in the big Matter booth at CES 2022. I am sure the big three are going to make a lot of noise about Matter at CES and focus a lot of press attention on it. You can probably get $7K of free press just by joining.

The objects are there, it is a repackaging of Zigbee but Apple is in the middle changing things. Apple is the largest contributor of code to Matter. Apple is definitely extending Homekit to support Matter devices without them needing Homekit certification. Google is also fully onboard. Amazon is the questionable one. Amazon has joined but their people are not showing up. https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/blob/master/src/controller/data_model/gen/CHIPClusters.h This article illustrates why the big three are behind Matter. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22386086/amazon-strong-arm-power-ecobee-antitrust-tech The big three want to short circuit companies like Ecobee from creating walled gardens. Personally I am getting very tired of these walled gardens and Tuya is responsible for making a lot of them. For those that don't know -- the Ecobee devices are all encrypted on the LAN. Only Ecobee software can talk to them. So Amazon wanted to display the temperature from an Ecobee thermostat on an Echo Show. Because of the encryption Amazon is forced to ask Ecobee for permission to get that value via the Ecobee cloud. At this point a fight ensued between Ecobee and Amazon. Details are not public but I suspect the true story is that Ecobee asked Amazon to PAY for access. Now multiply this over a hundred walled gardens. Matter just going to be at demo stage for CES 2022 I doubt if it will ship for real before Q3 2022. With Matter devices the big three won't have to ask the vendor for permission to access the devices. Permission control has been moved to the user instead of the device manufacturer. This is the big multi-admin feature of Matter. With multi-admin the user has the ability to attach the device to multiple clouds. In the current world that Ecobee thermostat can only attach to the Ecobee cloud. In the Matter world the user has the ability to attach it to both the Ecobee cloud and the Amazon cloud. I am skipping a lot of technical details here; you don't directly attach the device to the Amazon cloud instead you attach the device to an Echo which is attached to the cloud.

It is the ISY994iZ but I am not sure if it is sold anymore. I also have no clue how ISY is going to work with Matter. The obvious solution would be for it to proxy all of the Insteon devices out onto the IP network as Matter devices. With Google, Apple and Amazon all behind Matter there is going to be no stopping it in 2022.

If you are buying new devices going forward I would recommend Zigbee or Wifi based devices. That is because Matter is going to be announced at CES 2022 and it is really going to shake up the smart device market since Apple, Amazon and Google are all supporting it. Zigbee or Wifi devices you buy today won't support Matter, but it is likely they can be reflashed to support it. Zwave is not part of Matter. https://buildwithmatter.com/

For sure there is a chip shortage, but it is uneven. Some chips you can't get any and others are easy to get. The problem is that if you can't get one of the chips needed to make a PCB, you can't make the PCB. Which chip are they unable to get?

Not all chips and experiencing shortages and Insteon using some very common chips. Do we know for sure this is shortage related? Or is something else going on with the private equity firm that bought Insteon? Maybe new owners trying to raise prices? TP Link is a complex change. I will need to sort out which lighting groups don't interact with each other and then switch the entire grouping. I am already forwarding some Insteon keypad presses up into Amazon for processing so that they can trigger events in a different vendor's wall gardens. TPLink is also inside a walled garden and you have to interact with it via the cloud. So my dilemma is to buy seven Insteon dimmers at about $50 each, or start switching parts of house over to TPLink which would let me free up some Insteons. Next year https://buildwithmatter.com/ should make this problem easier to solve by eliminating the vendor wall gardens inside your home. But Matter based devices aren't shipping yet.

What's going on with Smart Home? All of the decent Insteon sales have stopped. No President's Day sale this year. Now they have a Memorial Day sale for 10% off. But they removed the multi-packs from the website and turned off free shipping. So it is a non-sale. I have a few dead devices that need replacing, am I going to have to wait until Black Friday to get a decent sale? Hard to justify $45 for Insteon dimmers when TP Link is selling wifi based ones on Amazon for $11 shipped. I could convert my house over but I need keypads in a few locations and TP Link does not sell them.

Does the Insteon 2448A7 work as a PLM on the ISY994?