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They say Android only deployable by their certified installers right now.

http://www.ibuttonlink.com/products/linkhube Not exactly what you want, but the terminology should let you get to what you want. A Hub is apparently what 1-wire uses that I called a switch, this particular device unifies different networks.

UDI is making their own PLM adapter in the next bit of time here, they have some engineering work they were tweaking and I would not be exaggerating, that we will ALL buy one. Regardless if you do the homeseer or the ISY you need a PLM, if you need to move now, you need to buy a PLM, but understand it will fail sometime down the road outside of warranty no doubt. We are hoping UDI solves the physical problems with the insteon manufactured one. I have just a regular, the difference is capacity and unless you are going to be huge and program and program you will be find with the plain one. You can UPGRADE to pro, it's just a software update, not hardware. It's a solid device, with a great new release coming sometime (hopefully this year) which will really expand what we can do with it. Alan

Teken, if the secondary device can control one of their switch units (1 wire that is) (and I forget the part numbers) which can literally turn on or off large networks from a third network. That sounds confusing, but it's no different than a switch instead of a hub, it literally can segment networks into manageable pieces for just this situation. You can use your reading controller to turn on it's access to the network, do all it's IO and then switch it back to the other network for it to do it work, visa versa. Just have to get your timing down so they don't try to access at the same time as one won't see it. Alan's

Wonder about that when the time comes, depends a bit on the buyer to me. However, reading about it on other forums it seems about 70% of people take the system with them because it adds no value to the home to 99% of the buyers and could be a negative to a technophob wife. If you think of the grand more more you have in your system, and that you could replace almost all of it with $0.50 switches in a few hours.. When I do my overhead can lights, I have not yet decided if I will do a bank of switches, or just a 8 position keypad. However, whatever can I choose will need to provide access to the insteon controller inside of it, would not want to crawl into the 140 attic in 16" of insulation to be replacing a module!

Personally I have my ezflora on a set of programs that water on a number of days since I last watered via the date keeping app stack in the wiki. Most of the backyard is watered on 3 day rotation, but I added a every other day to what I call the middle to deal with some dry areas. My drip lines run every other day, and since I have the climate module I have added an extra at 4:00pm side if the temp was over 80 to keep baskets from drying out. This has run pretty reliably since I put it in. Everyday my greenhouse get's watered for 15 minutes regardless of need out there. My front yard needs different times in different parts so one part is every other day, and the other is longer every other day since it is in a rain shadow. During the spring we get enough water from rain that I could likely put in a rain sensor to a io linc to take that into account for parts of the yard, but not others so a cut off may not work for you directly wired to the ezflora. Going into an io linc may be a better option for you. When I did my sprinklers I used the mp rotator heads, and those are fabulous with being misery with water (read even in good wind, you stay dry walking along the sidewalk!) They have to run longer but do a great job acting more like rain than a normal head that mists off a great deal in wind and puts out too much water for the ground to absorb quickly.

I drilled down into the actual forum itself and there was a new topic button.. So forum, browsed down to the questions and answers, clicked that, and then was able to find a new post or something like that button

I hope it helps with the spam issues of late. I have a hard time navigating this particular software for forums. Where is the mark whole forum read? I think I found new content listing, but does it only do new posts or unread items in it? Any other tips etc?

Any "amps" that fit in an outside electrical box? I am thinking a rotary volume control and maybe a raspberry pi with some music app maybe xmbc? Sent from my Sony Tablet S using Tapatalk

Android apps? and how about Kindle apps? So far around the house we have a couple android tablets, multiple laptops, the isy, 3 android phones, 1 dumb phone, 2 ipods, a pair of kindle fires, and an ipad. Ideally I would like to be able to control the amp hooked to the speakers with any of them and play anything in itunes, amazone cloud, google cloud, or on the server in the house, we have out there. Alan

Although strictly speaking, not likely to involve the isy in any manner except maybe some mood lighting (phillips hue's out there would be pretty cool or some rgb with the new figaro(sp) controllers they have. What are you guys doing to have some outdoor audio that you can control from android, ipad, ipod, computer, etc. I looked a bit at Sonos but they still seem to have no outside speakers, so looking at going with thewirecutter.com recommendations after we listen to them at Best Buy, but that brings up some sort of amp, the cabling, the volume control, the source etc. I've also recently come into the possession of a F200 projector made by Panasonic so I am thinking multiple sources out there as we might watch a movie on the back porch and a fire going a couple of times this simmer.

I suspect the fundraising was from the contest that the bank was running that mobilinc was in the running for. Hopefully you will fix some of the connection issues where mobilinc is stymied while I am surging the web or getting texts or emails, it just gets lost all the time for me, constantly. As a side note, apps are expected to be updated in smaller pieces more often, doing monolithic releases I find counter productive. You could roll out a couple of features every couple of months and your community will feel much more engaged and enthusiastic. Alan

Could we group develop this? any of us figure out the new websockets yet in html 5? My issue with mobilinc is partly my phone and partly mobilinc. It cannot make up it's mind if it's local or secure if it has a connection or not, so it' too frustrating to use most of the time. Alan

along those lines with an io linc, anyone seen a "vibration" sensor that would close or open an io linc and we could just slap it on with a magnet on the back of the dryer?

In general yes, you HAVE changed the default username and password correct? Turned off UPP, and only have it pulling ntp data? You can use mobilinc connect vs port forwarding if you want to access your ISY from outside the house network, this being via your phone, not the admin console. There are some threads on installing your own CA, but that still baffles me.

Does that work from the browser on my desktop, I seem to think you have the format wrong off the top of my head but at the wrong computer to check it. You had to have username AND password in there. Alan

Chasing the signal sucker can be a frustrating process. I happen to have one of the old X-10 signal reading meters and insteon is close enough that it registers. Running all over the house with it I found: Televisions are good suckers my microwave (that blew the filter though) my washington machine (now plugged into a syncrolinc, so maybe that helps) 1 of 3 cable boxes was really bad In general I have a filter on the stereo, tv, etc power strips. all computer power strips have a filter. I still have an issue here and there, but it's better. As I add Dual band, I am not sure it really is getting better. Recently added a dual band to my garage keypad when the original pl one died. Now an appliance linc does not always respond to the isy as to status, but seems to always work on or off as it controls my walk way lights. I have another appliance linc that has 2 access points, one plugged RIGHT into it on the pass through, and 3 dual band switches within 12' of it, ISY reports everytime I log in that it does not respond. The fan turns off most of the time in the morning, mostly. Alan

Thank you Xathros, have put that little program in place instead of my keypad query, which did not seem to function how I wanted. Hopefully, no more out of sync kpl buttons will occur. Since I put my dual band out in the garage, my walkway lights applianclinc doesn't communicate reliably with the ISY anymore, but always seems to be on and off as it should be. Strange.. Alan

A topic very near and dear to me, and thank you for the extensive write up on it. Are any of the foscam's you are playing with full 1080P resolution? I've got some depth to my driveways, and the neighbors have had some issues, so I would like to have the higher resolution in case some real face recognition is needed to identify prowlers, vandals etc. Alan

It's been on the todo list for a while, and if not mistaken, part of the two way network communications they want to implement. It's been on there for a good long while, pushed back by the I2C that insteon broke so many things with, and then the z-wave modules and programming to support them. Personally, I would figure it will come too late this season, there has been little talk of version 5 or whatever jump they will make with the two way communications. Perhaps a simple rain sensor to an io linc. There was some logic, perhaps even here, where a user looked at the rain sensor, did a little adding and substracting based on morning and evening reading, and made his own "system" up of when to water. There are a number of soil moisture sensors out there too, might be worth using a rasperry pi, some sort of middle software for a while and just fill in some spots in the variables with that using custom rest calls. Alan

Nuts I missed the accredited investor by this much ...

The biggest hurdle from just crowd sourcing this, we certainly have enough of us that could code and design this from scratch, is we wanted to LEAVE JAVA behind forever. This brings up the biggest issue of device independence, how can we make the subscription to the ISY when the "environment" cannot handle the two way communications we need? There is some hope that the extensions to Chrome and Mozilla would give us that two way conversation, or we have to have a third device in the middle to translate for us. Mobilinc Connect does that, but I'm looking for way faster response, and I had serious connection issues between my phone, mobilinc, wi fi, and 4g.

Thank you gentlemen, I will check my periodic program to see how I did the query. I also use a program behind the buttons of the status only kpls, to manually run the query. Next time I see that they are out of sync (and this program being manually triggered at the keypad does not seem to do it (but that's normally the one that is off, or a bedroom one), I will endeavor to run the program via the admin console to observe the traffic. If Control 'Hallway_keypad / Hallway_keypad - Garage' is switched On Or Time is 5:35:00AM Then Set 'Garage_Door_IO-Sensor' Query Else Set 'Garage_Door_IO-Sensor' Query My thinking of the above, was that it would cause the status of the IO linc to be directly checked when I hit that button or each morning. It was my intention, and I think I do, to run that Query in a couple of other programs that are timers that close each hour or so with motion around the house. Sort of a pseudo random interval. I, also chose off to indicate closed and bought the inverse reed switches so as to not need to use the sensor reverse and avoid the losing the settings issue! Knowing full well, that I would get a call from the wife while I was out of town that the "d87m" switches are not working again. Since I had two used kpls die in the last month, I bought 3 dual band replacement units from the St. Patrick's day 20% sale, perhaps they will assist with better communication, but as with all of us with extensive networks, I have a couple problem children still.

Will poke around in there, have to look up the read write commands again as well to see if they are working, but no green "directories" of the nodes all of a sudden. THought maybe the boy banged some wires, but nothing stuck out. Do you know if some of the cryptographic functions work better under arch linux? Wheezy appears to have issues across the board with applications, like why would they compile the debug out of the package for owfs? That's just ...

I have 4 keypadlincs with a garage door status light on them. 2 can control the garage door, 2 only show status. Most of the time they are all in agreement and correct. Once a week or so at least one is out of whack, which causes some panic as you check a couple of others, or slog outside to find the door really is closed. What's the proper query from a program to absolutely make sure that garage door is closed, or are those io lincs just not reliable in reporting their status over time when querried? Alan