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lilyoyo1

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  1. Yes I do. it'll reset once it's off regardless of how it's turned off
  2. Status should work. While control is fine, it wouldn't cover what he's trying to do should he turn his lights on with voice or app control. @arshishkI've experienced the same thing. I ended up creating a variable which for some reason works without fail
  3. lilyoyo1 replied to apostolakisl's topic in Polisy
    I agree with the touch screen. We had touchscreens in the wall in our old home in addition to using command fusion years ago. Never used any of the touchscreens except for as an alarm panel. Was more work than simply using a keypad I used command fusion since i was tired to an app at the time but no longer need them for the house. I never used it to control the TVs even though it could
  4. lilyoyo1 replied to apostolakisl's topic in Polisy
    That's the part I was thinking about
  5. You already know my history with insteon so i just want to respond about some of what you've posted. No expansion- J. Dada Used insteon as his toy to satisfy him and his friends needs. I think he truly meant well at one point but wasn't focused on seeing those ideas through. He wanted to be able to say he did something vs putting forth the effort to do it properly. This is why Europe had product but they really didn't push for it. He was more interest in saying insteon was world wide than seeing it through completely. Deprecated hardware- Most of the stuff disco'd after purchase needed to be disco'd. If i had bought the company, i would've done the same. The only difference would've been colors. I would've kept the top 2 options after white. The only thing I really think they completely screwed up on was getting rid of their other smart home products. The 3rd party products is what would float them when insteon sales were down and vice versa. I would've got rid of the junk stuff and focused on making it the biggest source of home automation tech out there. Nokia Rebrand- I would've done the same to get out from under all the bad reviews that still haunted them years after they were corrected. The difference with me however would've been to capitalize on my built in user base as that meant instant sales base. I would've focused on making the product available to anyone who wanted to support it- which leads to my next statement. Jealousy- Most of what went wrong IMO is jealously. Things turned sour because the dynamic went from UDI making a device that controlled insteon and them needing insteon (even if only in their mind) to insteon needing UDI. They hated that dynamic. Instead of seeing UDI as a partner they could grow with, they saw them as competition. Some in management said they were going to make a controller that would put the isy to shame (more on that later) They used to get on their tech support because none wanted to push insteon controllers. All would steer customers away from insteon hubs to the Isy. I think this played a major part as to why Rob wanted to go at it alone. He was an investor there before they got JD to sell. Homekit. This was their downfall. This was the beginning of the end. When they were picked for homekit, they went way in over their heads. This is partly why I defended @Michel Kohanim decision NOT TO support homekit so vigorously. Prior to homekit, they were working on I3 with a new chip design and a slew of new features such as being able to tune the power line signal to get away from noise, decouple the signal from zero crossing, etc. Had it come to fruition, it would've been spectacular. We had a few talks back then about it. Around this time, they wanted the hub3 to provide conditional logic to provide a challenge to Isy. Even employees laughed which didn't go over to well. Once Apple picked them, all eggs went into the homekit basket. Apple's changes forced rewrite after rewrite of their software (partly why Hubpro sucked so bad). They allowed a company that knew nothing of automation tell them how to automate and the results spoke for itself. They never recovered from the Hubpro fiasco. Had they sat back, waited, and simply followed everyone else, they could've slapped a chip in the hubpro to allow insteon devices to be controlled like everyone else, and been ok. Instead they went all in, lost everything, and lack of new products killed them. Liquidation- Up until Oct./Nov. I think they were really looking at staying afloat. With no products to sell they couldn't hang on.
  6. lilyoyo1 replied to apostolakisl's topic in Polisy
    There were 2 pieces that you needed which allowed me to use it with my dinky link. I'll have to see if i still have my old one to give you the model number. If the Node server cant capture the input, it wouldn't matter anyway
  7. lilyoyo1 replied to apostolakisl's topic in Polisy
    Does the Node server allow you to configure/capture the input on the itach? Back when I used command fusion, I was able to use my itach with their receiver so i could still use a regular remote if i had to.
  8. I think it's supply and demand. There are so many on there for sale no one feels a need to over pay. Even on forums, so many are talking about ripping out their system, buyers know more will come down the pipeline
  9. lilyoyo1 replied to apostolakisl's topic in Polisy
    I believe there's a Node server for itach. You may be able to use that
  10. I wonder how much could I get for my Nokia hub ? ?
  11. For once i agree with you though i wouldn't call it mismanagement. There's a huge cost savings when it comes lean manufacturing. I have a client that owns a steel company in Ohio. We were talking about things and he was telling me how much his company saved when they transitioned to a lean manufacturing company. They pay 3x as much when something goes wrong because everything is a rush but those are 1 off events. The costs savings (including downtime from outages), is still much greater than when they kept products on hand. You're talking about tens of millions in savings for these large companies. For him, and most others, COVID was the perfect storm for good and bad. Being lean made his company much more nimble to react to market changes but this pandemic was so great, many were forced to throw out all playbooks and try things just to see what would stick While I'm not into mfg. I get it. I used to carry a large amount of inventory. Now, I carry a couple of spares and for warranty purposes and order everything else when needed. While I'd love to have my stuff at the price i used to pay, because I no longer need the space i had, I'm still saving money even though it costs me more per unit (though it helps that I'm doing new houses so i was able to adjust pricing accordingly).
  12. There's half a dozen recent threads where this is discussed on the Smarthome sub-forum. The second post there has Michel's response. Regardless, until it happens it will only be hope and speculation
  13. A developer would need to have an API for it to develop a Node server for it. Due to time and effort, they most likely would want a public API so they don't need to constantly fight to keep up with the mfg making changes that breaks the Node server. The more information you provide (such as getting the API) the greater the chance someone may make one. Popular demand helps as well. While you may be willing to pay for it, they probably would want more people willing to pay to make it worth the investment.
  14. Home assistant forum is the best place to ask this question. Its their software
  15. lilyoyo1 replied to sndflea's topic in ISY994
    In addition to being UDI's future controller You have more options with polisy to work with insteon Isy=2413s Polisy= 2413s, 2413u, 2448a7
  16. There was a specific line for the EU and legal frequencies there. New Zealand/Aus, Middle East, etc.
  17. Everything came from their Irvine location. The few distros, they had, they shipped direct to them from that location
  18. Yes. Factory reset your Isy per the instruction manual (Google ISY factory reset). Then go to the current release sub forum and download the 5.3.4 firmware. Once done, add your devices. Programs are individually unique to a person's lifestyle. The Isy is cayenne of great things. You're only limited by your imagination and skill
  19. They have an extremely small footprint there. Regardless, they also respect our patents/copywriter, etc there so if insteon was copied, whoever did it would be prevented from selling it there as well. In addition, 50-60hz and 270vac is fine but the RF was different for europe
  20. As long as you stated that it was modified and listed the modifications, I think you do limit yourself somewhat. Use at your own risk doesn't always release from liability. Win or lose, the headache of court isn't always worth it.

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