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Me thinks these protocols will require USB dongles.

I have a few of almost all the models over time. The last ones I bought had lux, which I wanted, but it seems they have eliminated the XYZ positioning. It seems like it detects movement by changes in light, wakes up and does some other measurements. I have never used the XYZ positioning on my other tags despite having them in my ISY variables, and they seem based on the earth's magnetic poles so ???? OTOH, I am using one for my garage door but in the Door Opening mode where it does some kind of self calibration thing when closed. The cool thing about them is the multi-sensor aspect. You can stick one on your mailbox lid and read outside temperature and humidity off the same install. These things must already be 13 bits as you will receive 0.001 C temperature resolution. Maybe I didn't buy the cheaper ones in the beginning? All but the cheapest units have memory and if disconnected will update the parameters back months before the reconnection.

I have heard of setup difficulties but not range problems. Some may need to be tuned for longer range or battery saving adjustments. They have a self-adjusting frequency routine but the user has to trigger it. Motion detection and other parameters have to be set to self trigger reporting, or else the tags will only send updates on the preset periods, like 1,2,5,10,15,30,60,120, 240 minutes. They have flashing lights and beepers that can run the batteries down if turned on. I tried the NS but found it just added further delays to reporting and add more complexity into the data path security.. I also tried the vocal options in the app but it freaks people out when my phone babbles in my pocket. Here is the temperature, Dewpoint and Lux readings inside my fridge for the last week. Use the swipe select to zoom in and out andyou should see every time we opened the fridge door. I use an immediate notification on our mobile phones (no ISY required) and ISY for longer term slower monitoring. https://www.mytaglist.com/eth/tempStats.html?d3f5c09f-3c55-437a-8ff2-b011cd3fc291&Fridge&C&1

CAO Wireless Tags. About $30 each plus a single Tag manager $25?. Everybody loves them. You will need a new CR2032 battery every 9-15 motnhs depending on how frequently you have them update. Ther are many threads about them here in the past. I have published kumoApps to stuff their parameters into ISY, there is a fine PolyGlot NS, and they support many other methods of getting their parameters to almost every place you could want it. Alexa now has a skil you can query the temperature form them vocally. Humidity, Lux, and XYZ positions are not supported by Alexa skill yet. I have one screwed to my garage door that tells if the door is open or closed. I have one in my glove box that tells if the car is home or not I have one in my fridge that tells if the door is opened too long. Saved our bacon a few times now. I have two outside that tell me air temperature and the sunny wall temperature in order to create intelligent thermostat predictive setback and recovery. These also have lux. I have one in my wine cellar that controls an exhaust fan based on inside to outside dewpoint comparison. Temperatures come at you down to 0.001 C resolution, very stable and accurate. Some stats wander around seasonally plus or minus 1-3 degrees C. Based on averages using 6 Tags and a few other digital thermometers, these don't wander much. Dimensions are about 1.25" square by 1/4" thick. I have received signals from the one in my car over 1.5km away.

Possibly I bought some old stock. I have a few ApplianceLincs. I don't find any need to improve on basic Insteon devices as they have been as stable and reliable as any other appliance in my house. Insteon is really lacking growth on analogue devices but what would they do with them if we all just had Insteon Hubs? I don't have any desire to use remote controlled door locks. I do not carry any keys, ever. I already have one hand combination locking deadbolts on doors, I can pass through without hardly missing a footstep rhythm, and they are typically automatically locked when closed. Of course, I live in an area where people leave their front doors unlocked, while they are out, and nobody I know around here has a security system, except my ISY created system. Insteon brought out a light bulb but I fear it was likely a sales flop. I do use many RGBWW smart bulbs but they are not Insteon. I want alternative remote control of them should Insteon disappear in my home. I guess an Insteon RGBWW bulb may be a welcome sight. IMHO webcams have nothing to do with HA so I don't care for Insteon effort in that field. Upgradeable firmware in Insteon devices may have helped in some spots but basic devices don't need it. End devices that need upgrading are ones that were released before enough QC and QC is not found very often anymore. OTOH, IED things could be coming back, distributing the CPU loads away from central controllers. Insteon devices already have some of that being able to tight link a lamp with a MS. Programmable and logic based timeout or lighting levels could be implemented.

Dual-band technology, Insteon siren, improved PLM, OnOff module, door and window modules. Every module has had firmware updates, not always better. Existing modules don't really need any improvements but newer device releases have been disappointing from Insteon. Original Zwave has been a complete flop and new non-compatible standard had to be created. ZigBee is even worse. They all have their growing problems. The youngest child always grows the most over the last few years. Thank Gawd there is ISY to help us through the tough times and make a complete system out of the shrapnel.

Sure, stagnated, but Zwave has a while to go before catching up. At least with Insteon, all devices are compatible with each other. Zwave may get to that point, eventually. At the rate your Insteon devices are failing, you could be all Zwave by now, but you might have to rebuy them all again to get the current standards, and make them compatible with each other. I wonder how green the grass can get from an acute angle?

Don't get you hopes up too high. Java is consistent and HTML/CSS/java code depends on which browser manufacturer you support. It may only run on MS Edge (example only) for some time and other brands may be a later addition. Much may depend whether google gets their legal rulings trying to capture the DNS market.

His device is a state variable. Try disconnecting your ISY account in the GH app and then reconnecting the two accounts. I had big problems with this also and it finally worked. No idea why. You may need to download the image from the ISY Portal again and then update your devices in gH again. This is one of the reasons I don't use my GH devices much anymore. GH support sucks and all I ever got back in over a year was "What is an ISY? See your administrator of the software." Also I found GH might take hours or even days to update the database at times. I though this was all fixed over the last year though. I gave up on GH for many other reasons.

ISY does show disconnected devices. You need to have the 3:00 AM query running that your ISY came with. Other than that Insteon does not work like that. Insteon is a push event triggered system. End devices are responsible to keep ISY or central device hub up to date. UDI went above and beyond that system and installed a 3:00 AM program to query devices that the user can totally control.

Michel! asbril is picking on my technique again!!! I get enough of that at home from my wife!

I keep track of the current time in a variable ($MMDD.hhmmss) and when the power comes back on I send myself an email and SMS what the last known time was. I only update the variable every 20 seconds to keep the ISY engine cool. This takes V5 so if you only use v4, don't even think about it.

Is ISY not updating or just your Alexa app?

Did you want to change the response from the SwitchLinc on the wall, or for program usage, leaving the lights on all night by using a scene? Test by changing your time trigger to 2 minutes from now and then change it back once satisfied.

Your ISY clock will be synchronised every 24 hours (I set mine to 8hr.). When you load the admin console a time sample is taken from your ISY and then the times is set by a java software clock, getting out of sync. You may notice timed programs running slightly off from the admin console clock and it gets worse as it is open.

A simple battery backup or even a capacitor would cure most of that problem. It is a PITA though. I have twenty-five lightbulbs that keep time and now a few clocks that use the rf time signal. They must be facing the correct direction though and then they even change to DST correctly.

Insteon thermostat only send their information when the temperature changes by more than about 2-3 degrees F. I don't know how any software can tell it is unresponsive. Try putting a warm hair dryer on the stat for about 30 seconds to force an update,

Biggest problem with fridges today is trying to get the cu.Ft. size up by making the fridge deeper. Anything past the second layer is garbage within the next year. I always thought when I built a new house I would put in 2-3 dishwashers and leave the clean dishes in them instead of cupboards. What a waste of time and space stacking them in, then on the table, then back in the dishwasher. Of course old habits die hard,

Ohhh geeeezzzz! Who ate the QR code off the icing?

We would need much bigger fridges will all those specific usage weigh scales and somebody would definitely place the marmalade on the strawberry jam scale. Pantries and cupboards would have to become a peripheral of the fridge system. Most products are refrigerate after opening, even bread products packed in nitrogen now. After spending many years running several perfect warehousing systems, even my own that I wrote software to handle back in the late 70s, I know the in/out recording systems don't work. You spend more time correcting digital data than it takes to do a manual count each time. Weigh scales or some automatic scanning would be the only way to make this work but like PV systems, would it be more work, cleaning out the sticky soda pop residue from the can that exploded than just manually taking inventory? We know that doesn't work well or we wouldn't be here...LOL!

Working at the local electrical utility, we found it amusing, for some time the firemen would stand back from a house on fire, and let it burn to the ground, if it had PV panels on the roof. Their policies prevented them from entering a building until all energy sources were disconnected, and solar PV panels had their disconnects all inside the homes. ooops!

I don't think scanning the butter each time when you put it back, and then entering you used about 1.9% of the pounds will ever fly. There are some things that will never replace the brain of a human on an easy scale. We discouraged the usage of surprise money coins in birthday cakes years ago, I don't want to find BT coins in my food.

This right on target with my attitude. I spent about $40K now on solar PV equipment and should see about $5-10K back on my investment over the next 20 years of my life. What a waste and after replacing my last inverter system for about $15K (yeah the electronics are expected to last about 15 years for the better quality units like Outback) I will not likely even make any income from the system at all. I had a lot of fun though.

***SIGH*** A man's work is never done. I guess I need to know where to put the butter better.

I was thinking of purchasing an old self-checkout machine so it knows exactly what each item weighs. The only problem is it keeps asking us to take the last item out of the fridge and scan it again. We also know we won't get spouses to put things in front of their respective photocell detectors regardless of how much Dymotape we click out.