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it just stopped working, nothing shows up in the 1Wire directory in /mnt Unable to restart the owserver, it just fails. did a reboot and the init that start owserver fails too. --debug comes up with nothing to tell me what's up with the 1wire bus all of a sudden I am using one of the shepardwalk rp1 units and it's been flawless for months until the other day. I read that perhaps the --debug is not in the packaged one wire file system.. do not know why they would take that out.

From reading all over the place, what you are after is a LED power supply that can handle a trailing dimmer. Meanwell has a couple in the states now, I just have not ordered them yet to test them out. There is a large curio that shows in the TV that I would like to have a dimmer on to bring it down a ways when no one is walking through the room, but like to leave them on as it makes a nice night light. Jameco I think finally had them in stock at $22.00 or so. They gave me a part number of 2141106.

Not directly and I've not been completely successful at this yet. What I was trying to do was get a variable update when the pc's were actually in use vs just being on. I thought maybe a wrapper around a screen saver might work, but only the latest versions of windows appear to have a reliable method of telling, maybe. That way (and maybe when we get ping response you can tell if it's actually on as well) the normal power saving feature of the pc's could be used and you would know they are down, therefore it's safe to turn off the power. Alan

So thinking outside the box here, what about a Pi with a wireless dongle or a cai with a wireless access point? They could likely be set up to hook to the battery with a proper adapter for voltage so they could run with no power, communicate with wifi to use the rest interface, etc. My Pi has been pretty darn stable with the perl module and I have some code in there to run shell scripts when certain variables change in value. The cai I suspect would be easier, but the pi is more flexible. Alan

A few months back had to drop the main breaker and either the plm lost some links or a lot of light switches got corrupted. Therefore I did a restore on a number of switches to get their links back to controlling their various lights. Fast forward and all of my basement lights on Switchlinc dimmer V.27 switches had reset to instant on and full power. I've finally gotten around to attempting to reset those parameters, and I thought you just slide the little slider on the switch screen itself (not in a scene) so they were different than what the ISY thinks they are, and it writes them out. Walk to the switch and no difference. Set it again, see the write to the switch and still no difference. What am I missing here? 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it's dark? So if the garage door opens and the house is unoccupied and two lamps are off, which pretty much means it's dark I want the living room group to turn on. I think I have this correct, now to watch the unoccupied variable better.. If Status 'Garage_Door_IO-Sensor' is On And ( Status 'Door_lamp' is Off Or Status 'Mantle_lamp' is Off ) And $OCC_upstairs_svr is 0 Then Set Scene 'Living Room Lights' On $OCC_upstairs_svr = 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') If garage door opens and house is in un-occupied mode and dark turn on the living room light

Zoe, you would be wise to look at putting IO_guy into the beta group. He's caused a lot of thermostats to get sold or not sold due to having supported them in software. Alan

2-way communications is on the roadmap with UDI, so perhaps in the next few months you may be able to parse the return value. I'm waiting on ping myself, I think my tv and a couple of other items will return a ping when they are turned on, so I can sense that without spending a bunch of money on syncro-lincs. Alan

Ok so you cannot DIRECTLY assign a variable from the elk to the isy, but you can Compare variables correct? so one program does if isy_var < elk_variable Then isy_var += Run isy_var_increase <== maybe not necessary, but want to run a loop until it gets there Else exit program Then you have at least a value just 1 digit higher, I think some remainder math could get you the other . something piece as well in the same manner, then perhaps some simpler programming can be done? Since the %= gives you the remainder of a division, I think (that's dangerous) that you should be able to get at the .1 portion of the voltage measurement. Can you increase the variable in the elk by a factor of 100, or something to make the easier to run the count up to proper value? eg. 1.83 volts becomes 183? Alan

I still wonder if we could not strip down the number of programs. Maybe something like a binary sort arrangement. initial value divided by 2 is it bigger or lower than this number? Divide by 2 again, is it bigger or lower than this number, etc you get down pretty fast to a percentage you could show.

I control a denon that is non network with a isy to a raspberry pi and then use lirc, I've had lirc crash once, the rest of the time it has been power drops, reboots, etc etc. Go for the simpliest solution which is a direct connection from the ISY to the stereo via the network module. But there is a way with most non networked stereos.

Yes bravo, bravo. I think you win the WAF home automation award of the year here on the forums. That's pure genious, now where can I find the spritzer that you use and a few other tidbits, I suppose you use a whole house ir block system? Alan

I say a web page on a tablet, using the rest interface and a page that reloads itself every minute of so with refresh= meta tag should allow you to make something like this up with html 5. Don't know which tablets have the best support for that with sound etc, but that would be the angle I would explore. Alan

If you had to go insteon, I would NOT use insteon switches, but instead find a commercial/industrial switch that would work with the micro modules. Something shallow, and on each switch plate I would have engraved the insteon modules in the box. You would have to do a survey to make sure they fit and find out if they are using switch loops or not, and that could to totally inconsistent. Leviton might have an industrial control side as well, maybe check worthington distributions I think that's the name of the wholesaler, they carry a large number of manufacturers. I , however, suspect you would have to look into a company like johnson controls for industrial control systems. To me, one of the first phases would be to get power panel level monitoring going, like a GEM system or bigger. Run it for a month to get a baseline and then you know WHERE the power is going so you can take a look at how you could cut the power earlier or dimmer (perhaps with a couple of weather stations that the school included into its cirriculam) e.g. a Provantage system with light intensity, if you knew certain rooms could be dimmed 10% or so with the new dimmer insteon ballasts controllers, perhaps over a couple of years that pays for itself on sunny days vs cloudy days when you need it at full brightness. Also with the GEM type monitor, you could replace say one bank of lights with another type and compare them to the old set over a week or two, to find out if they really do save money. Just having some motion sensors on switches in the class rooms that trigger mico-modules to turn on or off the lights could potentially be a huge savings over a few years, and that does not even get into finer grained timing with heating a cooling systems using an isy or other industrial controller.

A few questions to help you zero in.. Do you TRUST the cloud and don't mind your data going through the cloud? How real time do you want your information on the thermostat? Every minute? Every five minutes? There are several people on the board that have been happy with the Venstar. i don't know if the 6800 color series can talk insteon yet, they were working on it for a long time now if it's not. Ecobee's can be "controlled' with the Ecolinc package from IO guy, but you have to run them on another "server" in the house to be the bridge. Ecobee support was on the UDI list of enhancements, so someday we may have native support, which I suspect is part of the two way communications coming in the network module. I was DEFINETELY going to go the Ecobee route, then Ioguy discovered that you have to poll their cloud service for the data, and you can only poll about once every 30 seconds. I'm not at all thrilled about cloud.. Personally I'd love to see a kick-starter thermostat someday that used a tablet..

Since your exterior box is most likely metal, any RF signal from the micro module would me massively diminished. Might be a reason to run the wires back inside to a plastic box that the RF can pass through easier. The micro module will also put it on the power line, so it may very well be a moot point in your installation. For my bathroom radiant heat matt, I opted to use a plastic box that a ceiling light mounts too, vs putting in a water proof metal box just for the enhanced RF range that a plastic box should have vs metal. Alan

I would also put the event viewer on level 3, and hit the set button as you walk further and further away from the plm back to the original motion sensor location. Using a laptop makes this easier as you can see the receipt by the PLM, the hop count improve or drop lower etc. I have 2 motion sensors that are older that just go away for hours to days at a time, then come back. Flakey things, the last one I bought direct from Smarthome worked flawlessly until the battery died. I really need to find a 9v ps on ebay with a normal 9v battery end on it.. Alan

In my case, I might want to run three different sensors out around the house as I have a central wire-way along the edge of my furnace vent and can get a dongle on a piece of Cat 5 adapted from a USB hub connection pretty far away. We don't tend to wear our phones around the house, but would like to know when they come into range from being out of range etc to handle some lighting and events. I'm thinking that if I turn blue-tooth on in my car stereo, that a dongle out by the garage would know when the car came home or when it left. Alan

No help in the radios, but following the progress as this is an area very much interested in adding to my pi. Alan

Much appreciated, I found a pack of 5 or so for $9.99 or something like that on snail mail from China. Trying to figure out the easiest way to get a 1-wire into the pond now

Have a sample link for the waterproof one? Nope, nope, that's nothing dear (as you kick the box back under the desk)

For the one wire reader on the Pi, check out the sheepwalkelectronics.co.uk site (google that) for the RPI2 module. It's the one IOguy bought and uses now. Alan

I would add, that there are few devices out there as bullet proof as the ISY. We will have some pain coming with a new major release giving us a lot of new features, but these devices run years in some users home. I've never had mine lock up, ever. The weak link will always be the smarthome products themselves. The isy cannot start or change the parameters of the programs 1-4 on the ex-flora, and currently you cannot change the amount of run time in the program with a variable in a wait statement based on outside factors. There is a full irrigation module that can be purchased, and the author is on the site here to ask questions of. Next major release may have the feature to set a wait time to a variable, which will add a whole layer of additional capabilities. Alan

Thanks to Ben over at iguanaworks, the usb transceiver is back up and running. A little bitty change to their daemon was needed as the updated packages were no longer telling their daemon the usb transceiver had been unplugged or plugged so it would not find it. Changing the shebang to be !#/bin/bash is supposed to fix the issue. In the mean time stopping the daemon, unplugging and replugging the usb transceiver and restarting the daemon got me back up. I've been learning more on the init scritps and did not realize that all the time I spent making my own lircrd and irexec starting scripts were for not as the standard lircd scripted started them also. I just found the hardware.conf config file and have put the appropriate driver=iguanaIR in there instead of un-configured and that should allow the pi to start up all the daemons I will need. Next will be some configs to the output of the isy_var-monitor so I can just dump it's text output to a file on my harddrive I hung off the pi to become my new in house linux server vs the one that died from a close lightening strike. Don't know if it was the MB or the scsi drive, or the scsi contoller, but was able to move the files off the second linux drive successfully. When the 60 megs of music files finish copying here in an hour or two will test out a reboot. Now just need to fix the dreamdns.pl routine to keep my ip address updated at the domain level controller (something up with the pi's ssyleah-crypt implementation). Alan

From my perspective, only Leviton with it's RF line seems to be a competitor in the "hobbiest" market. I don't know what Control 4 and that ilk use for devices, UPB? Far as I can tell you are talking $100 a switch for them. For peets sake you can buy a phone for less that that these days. All the kickstarter babies will go away long before insteon does, it's not perfect, but the company is a lot more stable than any startup. With their expansion into international markets with the 50hz 220 items, I suspect you have many years yet. Perhaps someday we would have a true rocker switch that stays in on or off and moves on it's own, has a touch sensitive display that could show me anything I wanted, relay or dimmer depending on how I configure it, and a back-end that my wife can figure out.. Alan