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So you have too many probllems or too much money?

I bought the commercial spray before I did my research to find out how to make your own. It comes in a spray bottle, like a Windex windw cleaner spray bottle. I sprayed the staircases leading to the deck. This is a slight odour to it but nothing abnoxious. @lilyoyo My location is shown under my avatar. More southern than Washington state, but in Canada, eh?.

We have a raccoon that likes to sleep on our deck and leave piles of staining remnants. Hot pepper spray cures that for a few years or at least until it rains and washes it away again. Usually the raccoon has found a new resting place by then so we don't see it for a few years. You can buy this commercially mixed in a spray bottle, or make your own. A small bottle of Tobasco sauce in a gallon of water. Other recipies are based on making a steeped tea of cayenne peper and then diluting it about several gallons of water to a cup full of solution. We have skunks that wander right past us when at an evening campfire, in our sideyard firepit area, and coyote packs that stop yipping when we flash our porch lights. They have taken on a few of the neighbourhood cats at times. What a racket! But nobody has complained their cat has gone missing yet, so the cats must do well against a 4 or 5 coyote pups.

Power blinks can do this to many brands of smart bulbs. Hues do this so I have an ISY program set to turn them off upon every ISY power up initialisation and I only have to sleep through a couple of minutes of glaring lights at 4:12 AM. IIRC Insteon bulbs have an option to disable this so-called "feature". I don't have any of the Insteon brand.

Use an overriding long term timer so if the Off signal is not received, the light turns off anyway. Many users disable the Off inside the MS options.

I have to wonder how they can call this "in-line"?

Wink made those implications too. It most likely just connects to your other hubs, increasing your hub count by one. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

Finding this fascinating...doesn't that mean passing a specific node driver code to the other end, making the other end CPU code dependant and the code hardware dependant? OTOH, Perhaps a scripting language that already understands individual box hardware (sound output, video, Insteon PLM, wired siren) is the underlying secret then? That would mean ISY would not really be needing much OS change, just the ISY994X box would get smarter and understand where to send what node signal. ISY would become a smart peripheral to it, somewhat.

Trying to understand your concept, please verify my paraphrasing/analogy. NMM sounds like a definition for a protocol that will allow a device to send a complete device descriptor block to ISY (or other smart device) and ISY can instantly self install node pieces that understand all the given aspect/parameters to be expected from the device. In effect, ISY could start out knowing nothing about any device. When a device first connects to ISY (or other smart device), it sends it's personality and/or configuration. ISY would then configure itself, installing all the styles of node drivers it was told about and now understands the remote device with all it's nuances. On a simpler scale, it would be Plug'n Play, but on a smaller chunk scale (not on a whole device driver scale), to be able to represent any possible new device with many less drivers than one large one for every device produced. Simplified protocol talk DEVICE. "I am a thing-a-ma-jig . I contain an MS=On/Off, Brightness Level=0-100%, Battery Voltage=0-3.5 volts, Angle Detector=0-360 degrees" -----> ISY "OK.... Installed Thing-a-ma-jig.....Ready for values" Thanks Michel

Excellent! A multilevel hardware/software offering may also be a winner. Offer the hardware, hardware with basic polyglot, just polyglot, hardware polyglot and one installed node server, complete with paper instructions enough to reveal the whole soft manual stored in the ISY994x box. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

I use SwitchLinc Dimmers for any control usage. I use one pair, both with loads connected, for a three-way configuration done in ISY logic. I have a few mini-remotes but do not use them since I have an Echo and a few Dots.

Flakey comms. Not so important when operating devices but when passing critical information shows up as things MIA.

X10 did the same thing. In fact even the load bearing switch was special with an extra wire to receive the 120vac pulse the 3-way special X10 wall button created on the traveller wire. The house wring required a hardware 3-way circuit to begin with. Insteon does it so much better, and the way most circuitry is going...keep the hardware generic and universal, and let the end user decide how s)he wants to design the logic with as many options as possible available.

To clarify most of the repurpose comment, I moved and I didn't want my price further reduced due to weird switches that people would want money discounted from the asking price due to needing electrical work done to remove the weird devices. After the deal was made, I removed the X10 wall switches to take with me, because I wanted them. On the day of closing the new owner walked in and asked, "what happened to those switches?". I answered some made up story about only operating with my computers, when she said, "Good, My father is an electrician and he said he could replace them all with normal switches. That will save us some time and money". Now they sit in a box as I went to ISY and Insteon for a better system.

Michel. Nicely written and expressed! This sounds like you are redesigning DNP3 protocol. It's a very popular SCADA protocol used the world over, Been there, done that. It gets out of hand with brands completely incapable of talking to other brands due to the immenseness of the protocol. I wrote an DNP3 analyser once. Just enough to fix the incompatibilities between two brands of equipment. WOW! I spent six months and maybe covered less than 10% of the known protocol, without any custom internal protocols. For HA automation a subset of DNP3 could be defined in addition to the many other subsets already registered. Video widens the protocol somewhat but well defined already.

Looks like the Internet is fighting IPv6 extended IP addressing. Interesting that this can penetrate through routers into the LAN, that reconfigure addressing to LAN addresses. Ports seem to be used for similar purposes but routers like to play and convert them, as well. ISPs can block and tweak port numbers. SNI creates an addressing scheme that can now penetrate the router madness (being part of a lower level of the protocol) and can cause distribution inside a remote LAN, behind a firewall.

Not sure. The box has been added into the ISY Network resources for certain services that require it. A better analogy might be when the packet arrives at your router via IP address ww.xx.yy.zz from the Internet, the port number allows it through the correct router firewall, and the SNI could direct the correct computer to use the packet. Thanks to mwareman in another recent thread... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication Probably cheaper than purchasing a bunch of IP addresses.

What mwester said. ..and now they are adding SNI addresses inside that yet. This is like the bedroom number inside the apartment.

I believe in home automation as a goal, The remote control is fun but not really any point if the HA is done properly. I probably touch a wall or lamp switch only about 2 times per day in normal daily activities. ooops. I lied. I touch my ensuite SwitchLinc many times per day, but right now, having it change laser intensity to not wake up the spouse intensity twice per day is good enough automation. That may change later when I get ambitious. My goal is not to require any switches at all, so a special 3-way switch that cannot control a load and only performs half the usual tasks usually available with devices in a switch box, is not much use. Out of my 10 Switchlincs in use, I have none without a connected load. I always back up vocals with a hardware switch somewhere. If my ISY failed i have manual remote controls for all lights in a cupboard somewhere.. If those batteries were found dead and needed, then there is the plug in the receptacle to be pulled.. I do have a hardware four way system in my front foyer and a three-way system in my stairwell. apostolakisl's easy switch to reach applies in those cases and also I was warned in many places over the years, not to automate staircase lighting. Ever had a power failure while walking down a staircase? You quickly grab for a railing, while your feet freeze and your weight keeps going forward. Creates a moment of complete panic.

www.blinds.com or www.blinds.ca in Tx. has the best prices I have seen. I have dealt with them twice now from Canada.

https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.toxbox-24-volt-ac-adaptor.1000112971.html

Mini-Remotes are switching devices without a load connection. Get the one button rocker ones. There is your 3-way switch unit without load connections. Get some wire nuts and get over it. The X10 3-way switches required house wiring between the dummy and the load connected switch so they weren't usable for upgrading like Insteon SwitchLincs are. I have a junk box full of three way X10 remote switches and after decades of using them I wouldn't buy a 3-way Insteon Switchlincs, even if they were available. For a few bucks more the full SwitchLinc gives me the capability of repurposing it later, when my brainstorms change. I prefer one standard style of SwitchLinc I can use anywhere I want, not have to have a stockpile of different switch styles to use for different applications. Similar to Stu, once you activate some real HA and vocal controls, and not just install remote control systems, the need for 3-way starts to disappear. Perhaps SmartieHouse knows more about the future than we think. @Teken. Thanks for that

Used the bottom method with the URL cut'n paste. Being very confused why the admin console link mysteriously appears on my Win 7 desktop.... http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/22342-isy-portal-loads-wrong-ui-version/?do=findComment&comment=218144

Thanks Michel. Furthering this. Was there something I did to mess up the access using a v5. UI? Mostly when I do these things I end up with an Admin Console link on my desktop. I suspect that was a v4.6.2 and I forced it to replace my v5.0.10 UI in my folder (Win 7). Should I have just deleted the new a/c link and used the existing one and would that be the proper method?

The link provided in the Portal "ISY Information" was added to my existing "ISY Finder". I am not sure why it loaded v4.6.2 or how it would even know which version to load.