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A question for you. What kind of distance range are you getting from these devices to the hub?

IIRC PoE puts a high voltage (30-60v) bias on the extra conductors. Not sure how this would work on Gbit Ethernet but IIRC the high voltage gets away with the electrical codes, staying under 48-60v wiring code, and likely would not load the lines down to derate the DC-decoupled, phase shifted signals too badly. The higher voltages mean less current would be drawn (= less voltage drop in the conductors) and keeps the impedance of the source and loads higher.

Polisy with a USB Zwave dongle ( I use the SiLabs 700 dongle as it is reported upgradeable) and an Insteon USB dongle or your existing serial PLM for now.

Equipment closets need huge ventilation. My routers would crash when a Tag placed on top of them at 45 C with several 2.5" holes and muffin fans forcing air through. Outside the cabinet and vertical mounting solved that problem for a few years.

I use a VR headset and it uses 1200 Mbps via WiFi. When I connect to a PC via a 15' long USB extension cord and it's microUSB 6' cord the bandwidth is fine. However the 15' USB extension was rated very heavy duty with 16Ga power runs and all shielded twisted pairs for data etc. The size of the cable reflects that.

In that case try some high grade alcohol (not the drinking kind ). Isopropropeline?, or isopropyl alcohol with a Q-tip swap and wipe the gold contacts firmly to wipe away any oxides. Make sure it is dry and then insert it again. The rubbing alcohol sometimes contains some oils to avoid drying your skin and the oil would not be a good thing.

IIRC you can put a larger SD card in anywhere as long as you format it inside the ISY, it will only take as much as it can address in it's limited FAT table. The rest will just be wasted. May be worth a try until you can get a new 32 GB SD card.

SMS comes through when they get spare bandwidth. It was designed that way and offered free upon conception. We are all familiar with instant responses and message speed bu in the past year or so I have found the same thing, and nothing to do with ISY sending, but from other sources.

I never found any of the NOOBS o/ses worked with anything. They were always missing components of the O/Sytems and every bit of advice from others never worked for one reason or another. I completely wrote my RPis off, after a year or two of frustration, rebuilding them many, many times. About a year later, I downloaded a proper image of Debian, or whatever the latest O/S was at the time, and things just started to work properly. I don't touch the NOOBs installation any more. My PG1 and PG2 worked just fine with all my RPis until I ported over to polisy.

Oh yeah. I guess I have it backwards. I was thinking the smaller spec number was the length of the barrel. Only the last few months I have discovered it is OD / ID. Now I agree with your earlier statement. doh! Thanks for the wake-up.

...or the other way around? Too bad they make two different barrel connectors so similar in size. IIRC I have been caught on that one elsewhere.

Awesome! Make sure you mark it well or toss it, cut the cord off or whatever after a proofing period.

Yeah...sort of right but what is in the pipe? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Reading on a small screen here... Does that mean the 700 series is the long range spec already? I have a Silabs 700 series dongle that works fine with polisy but my best guess is only series 300 test receptacles, so far. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Polisy performs no differently than your ISY994. UDI maintains the same attitude to avoid cloud dependence. However, both offer many cloud features using vocal control and remote access etc. that obviously require cloud enhancements and dependence. Most users keep a cloud-free backdoor approach to important things. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

We deleted all the posts where we blamed you for everything! If we only know when you are coming back! Damn Insteon MS IIs! Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

LoL! Great advice..so I didn't respond to you either. BTW: I have installed your remote app and it works quite well and is impressive! I will not use it that often so have no suggestions just yet but it was real handy to tweak a few thing while away fir three weeks in Mexico! Thanks for what you have done so far! Much appreciated. Feliz Navidad! Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Lol! Time to get over yourself, all the friction, and all this BS. This is for the benefit of the forums and users here. Many users would like more knowledgeable input, and you sound like you have some good, and wise things, that other people can use here. ...and we will let you decide whether you can extract a few things from other users, also. Even newbies post some real interesting ideas that many 'oldies' never even thought of. UDI forum, and ISY, forever! Hope to see lots more of you in the movies! Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

It seems most are turning to Zwave. I have a SiLabs Zwave dongle on my polisy now, and have tested it to a few receptacles (on a plug-in cord) that I have inherited but I believe they are early versions due to needing to be interrogated to read the power draw on them and they are really clumsy big monsters. I am very hesitant to start committing to Zwave, and it will take a few devices to start building out a system. On the other side of things I have purchased and using about 35 RGBCW bulbs and strips around the house which run off NRs via my NRbridge software on a RPI. I am quite happy with those but no feedback into ISY has been programmed in yet so ISY has to assume they just obey faithfully. Those are all MagicHome protocol.

I don't like subscriptions to anything, myself. I have come to rely on my Alexa boxes to remote control things locally and provide so many more outputs. eg. turn on lights with 20 different colour schemes as well as about 15 different white lighting schemes, vocally report warnings ("dryer has stopped"), i have swallowed my pride and subscribed to the ISY Portal at such a cheap price. I forget the pricing but IIRC ISY portal is less than $1 per month. Well worth the cost at ten times...hmmmm...well 5 times the price.

Why are you not using the admin console? It is a much more complete access and information. Via ISY Portal is for remote access, mainly.

But there is no "gen" designation. Millennials may not respond to four digit numbers after Y2K.

OK...somebody has to start a generation counter for HA protocol systems. eg: X10 was gen1, Insteon is gen2? Zwave is gen3 or would that be gen2.2? Gens are the new titling system that is the latest fad. We need to get with the Millennial Times (not a newspaper).

Sounds like a good replacement for the usual serial PLM except ISY994 didn't have support for USB. Great option for the polisy though, and no PSU caps to get zapped with powerline transients!

That would be an Insteon protocol dongle. Does ISY firmware support that on polisy? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk