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Is hey ISY capable of monitoring outside temperature? I currently have the weather module but I live in a rural area and the closest weather station is 30 minutes away. Sometimes the temperature can be as far as 10 degrees Celsius off from my local temp. Is there any kind of sensor set-up that I can link to the ISY that will actually monitor a variable temperature sensor? All I can find is threshold sensors with an input output device. Another option I saw while forum trolling is using a wireless thermostat. Only downside is it says its operating temp starts at 3 degrees. Yesterdays temperature was -30 degrees Celsius which is roughly -22 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm running a program to turn my block heater on at different times based on ambient temp. Colder it is longer heater run times.

Turns out I had an incompatible item in my cart that would crash the website if I used it while logged in. I finally got a hold of someone by phone and they purged my cart from their end and now it's working. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's only been the last week. It's been working great up until then.

Internet explorer and Safari on iPhone can't reach the site no matter how hard I try. I used google chrome on my desktop and I can see the products but keep getting errors when ever I try to login. Then when I call all I get is "insteon tech support unavailable, please leave a message" I have left many messages and no one responds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know this may not be the proper forum but seeing as probably a good number of people deal with smarthome I figured I would ask here. Has smarthome.com gone out of business? I placed an order a week ago and now for about 4-5 days the website half the time is unreachable with internet explorer and iphone. I can browse the site with google chrome but as soon as I try to log in it shows unreachable again. When I call their number it says the number is unreachable. This is a very long time for a company to have tech issues with their contact system. I'm glad I only made a small order.

I find if you wait long enough it will load the home page. But when you go to sign in it does nothing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone else having issues with the smarthome website? I'm trying to go shopping but having no luck. Even the phone number says unreachable.

I was just in the process of ordering two synchrolincs but it appears the smart home site crashed on me. I'm just going to use two synchrolincs as suggested. I may still end up getting an EZIO8 and have it use a few float sensors to monitor the efficiency of the pumps.

I so far have been very lucky with all of my insteon items. All I have really played with is micro dimmers, switchlinc dimmers, and keypadlinc dimmers. So far haven't had any failures or glitches. I'll go knock on wood as I try to find something else to control with an insteon device.

I wasn't over concerned about them failing short term. I have a 12 volt pump beside these two pumps that run off a deep cycle battery. Either one alone of the three pumps is capable of evacuating the pit. So if the two insteon controlled pumps were to fail the 12 volt system would kick on which I would notice when I returned home. But all this talk about the insteons reliability has made me think twice. My idea was to have the insteon control the pumps that way I could set a program to swap out the pumps automatically to keep exercising the pumps. That's way neither pump would sit unused for a extended period of time. Maybe I will just monitor them with a shyncro link. Thanks for all the advice.

Hi all, So far I'm just a newbie with the insteon and ISY networking. I have been learning a lot with it and can't get enough. I'm slowly trying to make absolutely everything I have somehow insteon controlled. My new project I'm trying to tackle is my sump pumps. My house sits in an area with a high water table and I have a LOT of water that has to be pumped out of my sump pit every spring and early summer. So because of this I run a primary and back-up sump pump for peace of mind. I just ordered two outlet linc's for the sump pump outlets. I ordered two because each pump is powered by a different breaker, again for peace of mind. My question is I was thinking of getting an EZIO8 and having two water level sensors wired to it and in turn it would switch on the different pumps. One sensor and a normal operational level that would turn on the primary pump and then a second sensor at a higher "error" level that would then turn on the second pump and send an alert. My question I have been doing some research on the EZIO8 and from what I have read is it is unreliable. The last thing I want to do is add an unreliable device to control an important device. So I ask is the EZIO8 all that unreliable? I would like the pumps controlled that way because not only is insteon control cool but I could always intervene with programs and remote control for what ever reason. If the EZIO8 is unreliable are there any other I/O devices that are better? I was curious about the EZIO8 mainly because to start I would need 2 inputs right off the bat for the two level sensors, but it would leave me more inputs and outputs to expand down the road. What do you experts think?