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Will this be resolved when Polisy is ready for the non-Geeks like me ?

Good point

I very much agree with you and for table lamps you can use a plug-in device. Not more expensive and much more efficient.

Not being Geek enough, I don't yet have a Polisy, but experienced the same to access my RPi Polyglot on my Macbook Air using Chrome. However, no problem with access using Safari.

Sorry..... I don't and right now I don't use Nodelink. Knowing my limited techie competence, I was probably guided by others in this forum and maybe that guidance is listed somewhere.

I don't know the issue, but I would suggest a softer language. We are among friendly people here.

Will this nodeserver eventually appear in the nodeserver store on Polyglot ?

That sounds familiar. My wife has neither interest or patience for my HA setup, though she uses it more than she realizes. She sets her morning alarm on her phone but is backed-up (by me) with lights going on, curtains opening and music playing on the Google Home. A few minutes later, for my benefit, the music stops and the TV switches on. On holidays the program is disabled. She notices this without noticing it. Occasionally she will try Google Home to turn on the ceiling fan or to close the curtains, but GH does not like her Latino accent so she blames it all on me. ?

I opting for the left behind and wait till November. AND I will have the advantage of the cold weather in Canada focusing you full time on detecting any possible bugs, shortcuts etc etc.

If I connect Polisy with ethernet cable, then can I use the Polisy without being Geek ? ?

Not me............ I live in a condo

I use Zwave to control my fans and I have Google Home. To control the fan speed, I use commands such 'set the bedroom fan to 33 percent' . or 67 % or 100 %'. These percentages are the ones for low, medium and high.

I want Eva Longoria's voice on my Google Home, though if I can use the voice of The Rock then my wife would start using GH.

You make a good point, though I have a specific reason why I use Inovelli switches. I have 1 switchbox in my home where an auxiliary switch does not fit because it is a concrete wall and they made the space just enough for a "dumb" switch. As it is part of a 3-way, using the Inovelli as the main switch, I can keep the "dumb" switch which then works as a 3-way. But yes indeed I have had to replace the Inovelli switch several times. And yes, I have had to replace a few other Zwave switches over the 5 years that I have my ISY setup. If Insteon switches have a longer life span then definitely kudos to Insteon. On the other hand Zwave manufacturers keep innovating . As an example the Homeseer 200 dimmer switches allow you to program the sentinel lights to tell you something. I have one such switch in my bedroom and each of the 7 sentinel lights is linked to part of my home, and if lights are left on in any of those locations then the sentinel light goes from green to red. And if someone enters my home, then one of those lights starts blinking lights for 1 minute. Coming back to the specific topic of this chapter, I have four fans in my home (here in South Florida) and because Zwave does currently not have a single switch to control the fan and its light, I just added another switch so that the light and the fan can each be controlled by ISY. Not as sophisticated as Fanlinc.

I read so many comments of people who are very happy with their Insteon setup, and I respect that. I see the comments about the better execution speed of Insteon, but the PLM dependency is a weakness and because the underlying technique is RF and powerline, Insteon should be able to work even without a PLM, which it does not. Your assumption is that Insteon is a better car, but if I buy a new car today to keep for quite a few years then I prefer to trust a brand that is widely supported (and that innovates) over a stagnant largely not responsive manufacturer. I think Yahoo vs Google, with the former once being the leader of the pack and now hardly keeping up with the pace. Whatever Yahoo does is solid, but I trust Google more for the future. Again, I know that Insteon works very well and makes many very happy, but for someone starting from zero, Zwave makes more sense.

My dear Canadian friend, with my 60+ Zwave devices I have ZERO communication issues.

As was mentioned, we are blessed to have ISY allowing us to use both technologies. I recognize that Insteon is better at some features than Zwave, but I must agree with zxplod that I see much more future in Zwave than in Insteon. LILYOYO1 and I have this ongoing (but friendly) debate on whether having one versus multiple manufacturers is good or not. While there are some less good apples in he Zwave market, overall I find it a great advantage that there is competition and innovation. After my PLM blew after a few months only, I gave up on Insteon even though I read good comments on where Insteon does better than Zwave. Many here have invested a lot in their Insteon setup and are largely happy. Why would they change, other than for specific Zwave devices that outperform Insteon (such as locks)? Because I only had a few Insteon devices when the PLM blew, I preferred to switch to Zwave all together. But if someone starts HA from zero (and as lilyoyo1 said can not afford Control4) I am all for going with Zwave. I have more than 60 Zwave devices, including lights, fans, curtains etc and have no regrets.

I thought so too, but when speaking to them a few weeks, it seems that it is very far on their roadmap. It really is a shame that no manufacturer has come with a double switch for fan & fan light. Inovelli has made innovative devices but they are running late with the delivery of their new products. I pre-ordered one of their new devices several months ago with expected delivery in July and I am still waiting in October.

You keep cool yourself as well ?

Same as the "a mari usque ad mare" nodeserver ?

I take a Bitcoin ($ 8,000) in my desert any time.

So do I, but that will probably require RF codes on all food products that include date of purchase, expected limit of freshness of each product and some indicator of how much (e.g. milk) is left, smart fridges and a smart ISY user to create a nodeserver......................

GH has that option and I use it, same as your Alexa example. Unfortunately my wife is tech unfriendly and prefers to say OK "my name" get this or that. It has better performance for her than using GH. Our suburban life makes it that the supermarket is less than 1 mile (less than 1.6 km for my Canadian friend...) and Costco about 4 miles.

I notice that you have more icons in the tool bar than I do. How can we manage that tool bar such as adding or deleting icons ? I don't have Insteon and would like to delete those Insteon icons. Is that possible ?

Same here..... I have Samsung Smart Laundry washer and dryers, and I used the remote features once on the first day I got the washer and the dryer. The only thing I look for is a smart fridge that tells me when I need milk, eggs etc. I believe that this technology already exists, but for efficient use we may have to wait a few years when all this will become exciting and useful.