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I use Alexa routines for custom responses and vocal output from Alexa speakers triggered from ISY. I haven't heard of routines from GH. GH gave me so much anguish with accounts and confusion of my HA vocals that I just quit using it after a few years, except for the odd question Alexa didn't seem to know the answer to but even that usage is disappearing.

I have 5-6 Alexa devices and 2-3 GH devices. I rarely use GH for HA purposes as I find their artificial intelligence attempts get in the way of understanding what to control. eg. I have vocals for "red lights" in my Gathering room and "red bedroom lights" in my bedroom. If I say OK Google, turn on red bedroom lights GH will turn on both lights. If I say turn off bedroom lights GH will respond with OK, turning off eight lights because it finds eight colours with "Bedroom" in the vocal spec. Google AI loves to make assumptions on your behalf. For HA that is not desirable. Alexa doesn't do that and the vocal syntax freedom is much better. For sound quality GH minis are much better than the old Echo Dots. For candid answers and other non-HA applications, GH minis are better but Amazon is working on that intensively and surprises us with less machine sounding answers occasionally.

Not smart bulbs but I have 27W, BR40 bulbs mounted in pot light sockets, in my R50 insulated ceilings. I have burned my hand on them trying to remove them. Only one of the six has become defective over about 5-6 years. Now I try to keep most of my scenes using them at about 85-90% for their usage. The face of the bulb stays cool and when you unscrew it from the ceiling the sides have a surprise waiting for you, frying your skin. I almost had to drop the first one to the floor but managed to throw it onto a pillow until I got down off the ladder. Solid state electronics don't last long at those temperatures.

Asus. That will be the one. Mine worked for about two years and then they sent some notice about subscription and I couldn't respond. I figured it would wait a few weeks but they didn't. DDNS just opens up your network to somebody else that you are supposed to trust. After that I wrote a simple python program that stuffs four ISY variables with my ISP IP provided IP address and ISY notifies me each day of vacation, or if the IP ever changes, what the latest IP address is. Now I use ISY Portal. It isn't a fancy GUI but it gives me access to every ISY element I have. I prefer HA but remote control is needed occasionally.

If the io/Linc is single band and only powerline device, a dual band close to it, should not assist in any way. This is very puzzling.

I am not one to subscribe to ongoing payment for anything but the small price of the ISY Portal has been well worth it. It does so much for me and avoid the port forwarding complexity. I had a router supplied freebie DDNS service quit on me when I was away for a month, and there was nothing I could do about it. With ISY Portal it isn't needed anymore.

If the action is in the ISY log then this is not the ghost random-on syndrome. These do not report status changes. Factory reset the offending unit, then restore, and see if it happens again.

I guess his point is the All-On bug would turn both of the units on and could open your garage door anyway.

Good work-around! When there is a lot of noise and things are programming or just operating Insteon devices sooner or later the devices can get bad messages, that actually make sense, and then the devices can get scrambled. Garage door openers are notorious for producing noise.

Garage door openers have always been reported to upset Insteon communications for years here. I always just ignored that, but wondered why my comms were flakey at times, until I installed a newer GDO unit with battery backup (charger). Then Insteon comms went to about 50% and I had to investigate. Unplugging both technology GDOs, the comms went completely perfect again. It isn't the GDO motors that cause Insteon disturbances (they aren't moving) , it's the cheap electronics or the RF transmitter checking for remotes. Two FilterLincs solved those problems and the I/oLincs are plugged right into the back of them, on the unfiltered receptacles provided. Should have done it for the first GDO years ago.

OTOH I use NRs for most non-Insteon things. Total control is made possible by using variable substitution. I find ISY scenes of non-Insteon lights way too slow. Here is one NR I use for 24 x $8 RGBWW bulbs.

Wow! You're about 600 km north of me then. Sent using Tapatalk

Just remember... 'south' means downhill from us. but I hear you have 'gone north'.

As non-Americans we have a very different Z-wave ('Zed Wave') too.

I just ran into this running my Python3 genealogy software on a Win 10 system. When the .csv files were opened on my Rpi they caused problems and I realised they had the double EoL terminator from the Windows python3. A simple utility like "dos2linux" downloaded into the RPi can fix these problems for files ported over from Windows. I had to make allowances for blank lines in my software to avoid confusing my code in the future.

Many vendors do this as they gather a large first order to help pay for the development costs and get their product off the ground. UDI is having this standard CPU system customised to meet their needs better. The initial cost would be high but spread out over a larger userbase would spread the cost out. Imagine only four of us having these units, and then asking for help or discussing some quirk in the system. It's the right thing to do and ISY is going to be pushed past it's CPU speed comfort levels with so many options for it, and more to come. I have applaud UDI and this has been some time coming.

Not even close. RPI is licensed and UDI couldn't use it without licencing costs. RPi uses a microSD card for ROM. PCengines uses a proper SDD. Nice they have gone to the USB-C connector. It may stand up to the increased current making and breaking when power reboots are required. Faster I/O would be nice. I use my one RPi 3 for browsing. Barely fast enough for the extreme CPU power needed today with all the animated advertising. Oh look! Again $35 = $167.12 CAD by the time you get an actual usable computer, on a preorder. Full desktops are getting down into the same price range. Quantity Unit Price Sub Total Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Starter Kit - 32GB Storage SKU: PI4-4GB-STR32-C4-BLK Pre-Order: This item is estimated to be available on August 1 1 CA$ 134.95 CA$ 134.95 Cart ID: 2251545 Sub Total CA$ 134.95 Shipping CA$ 12.95 Tax - HST CA$ 19.22 Total CA$ 167.12

I have a heating system that depends on water pressure to work. I do have four LD now but only shut off my well pump and washing machine. There will still be a fair amount of after come out of my 3000' of in-slab PEX piping but it would be lower than the leak and I would not come home to a swimming pool basement. The one by the washing machine watches overflow and hose breaks. Had one once and now with so much laminated flooring in the basement made out of cardboard....well you can imagine what would happen there but all the drywall and outside wall spun insulation gets involved if it get too deep. Love mould in my walls!

I use a concoction of my address. When I get a notification it comes from my address.

You would have to follow the research links to find out the sizes. The closest I have seen, without further research, is 8x8x2, as posted. I doubt it would fit in a 1 unit rack height. Need to got to 1.5 unit shelf space probably.

I have used Samsung TV app that can control mine just fine but from seeing the API I had no idea what they were talking about. It uses some encryption scheme that made no sense at the time. I am thinking I may have to use a packet sniffer and try an app again, to just capture raw data streams, without understanding them.

Peg the IP address down in your router using the DHCP reservation table. Don't turn off DHCP in your ISY.

I have to agree with that one except for a few cases on WiFi possibly. I have a BT access point from 20 years ago and it never got any support and never became useful. I also agree BT is mostly useless when the antenna is in the far corner of the basement but it is the buyer insecurity that is driving the preference AFAIC. What if....? What if....?

I think mostly, the radio hardware is not possible to add on later. At a reduced price, the insecurity of not knowing what is to come, drives it.