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My apologies I didnt scroll far enough. Thank you Just call SH and ask to buy Insteon and they will tell you its discontinued but they arent putting it out officially on their site. As an Engineer in a $120 million company the chip shortage is not the problem. Why they are doing what they are doing I dont know. Possibly the rumour of a new generation is true who knows.

I am looking for someone etching/engraving not the stock buttons. I have about 100 stock buttons but they dont address everything. I have a list of about 30 buttons I need. But thank you for the reply PS Smarthome has discontinued Insteon and no longer offers custom button engraving.

Due to an illness I stayed away from HA for a few years and missed that SH discontinued Insteon. I have all of the actual devices I need but I need custom engraved buttons and SH no longer offers them for purchase. Does anyone know who was doing the engraving for them and are they still engraving. If not are any forum member engraving or know anyone who is? I have buttons that the ink can be remove from. Obviously I am willing to pay for the service. Thank you

I generally agree with you. Power Line Carrier was a big mistake for SH. They should have gone RF from the start. Dual Band that cannot ignore noise on the power line defeats itself. Zwave is much more successful because it has significantly less problems with communications, hundreds of mfg's (although some inconsistency between them) and more capabilities (locks etc). I like the keypads and the ISY. Not much else about Insteon. I am slowly adding Zwave where I can but I could not find a Zwave outlet dimmer so I bought a few of them with mixed results. SH should partner with manufacturers more experienced in automation. Possibly sell off the Insteon protocal to a real manufacturer.

I just recently installed an older Outletlinc Dimmer just fine (bought new off ebay) and a new Outletlinc Dimmer bought direct from Smarthome and it would not link. It would not recognize the Insteon Engine. I had to call and wait and wait for SH Tech support. Finally get them and they told me it might be that the ISY does not support the latest firmware and I should hold on to it. BALONEY! I insisted on a return for refund. I had also bought two of the IRlinc Transmitters and now I am wondering why they were so cheap. I wonder if they have issues to. SH is not known for consistent quality (rather they have very inconsistent quality).

I assume that this works better than the Mobilinc Geofencing. Can anyone confirm that? Thanks

Thats what I thought. I forget who said they needed filters for Zwave. Heck I never used a single filter with UPB in 8 years. It just worked.

Is anyone using filters with Zwave? I have not heard of that so it would be news to me. I agree that SH needs to do a better job with their RF designs. I have taken apart devices that had the antenna wire laying on the black 120 V internal wiring. Just poor assembly instructions and QC. The power limits are restricted by FCC Part 15 and IC RSS247 (going from memory here if I am mistaken sorry). Those reports are probably available on the FCC website as far as test results etc. Every mfg I ever worked for tweaked power down for samples tested and back up in production. So I would guess whatever you see as far as test results production is probably higher. Another feature they really need is flashable firmware. No explanation needed Has anyone noticed less products on the SH website? They were reselling everything from fish bowls to t-shirts if they thought it could make a buck. Maybe they are going to be more focused going forward.

I went the HS2 to HS3 route. Had to buy a new Hometroller for HS3 it would not run on the HS2 Hometroller. Then had to get new plug-ins only to find it did not work well and crashed after a week or so due to memory leaks. Rich did send me a new hard drive saying that was the problem but it was not. Your comment implies they have finally fixed it. ISY is MUCH more reliable then Homeseer. Also better support. But HS is a little ahead on the Zwave component from what I hear from guys at work (although they abandoned it to after I did and went to something else). I have only had 3 or 4 Insteon I2 devices fail in the past year and a half. I used to have that every month or so for the original Insteon devices around 2007. As far as SH still interested in UDI they best be. I think UDI saved the advanced users from dumping Insteon years ago. If they dont support UDI supporting SH products they are shooting themselves in the foot. I would guess the average ISY user has more Insteon devices then the average SH Hub user. I agree that SH may have outsourced their Engineering in hopes of getting it right for once. Not sure if its true but could very well be.

The memory leaks kept crashing my Hometroller. I was supposedly the only one for about a year or so then it came out that it was in fact happening to many others. Its possible the fixed it now I dont know. I have poured a few thousand into Homeseer just to have it sit on the shelf. Then again I poured even more than that into the original generation of Insteon to throw it in the garbage

My opinion is the guys at UDI are smart enough not to put all eggs into one basket. With SH the only mfg if anything ever happened to them UDI would be high and dry. That and there are certain desirable devices that are not made by SH (Locks etc). So UDI is doing all of us and themselves a huge favor in supporting Zwave. I am pretty happy they are (and its a lot of work). Homeseer supports both but is very buggy and requires a lot of resources. It is also very expensive compared to the ISY.

Ok understood. I was hoping it would not be a major project for you. Thanks

Michel was anyone able to track this down and if so will there be a fix in the next release of 5.X? Thanks

I am running 5.0.10 but this had happened in the 4.X firmware as well and one reason I had been dying to update to the 5.X. Its not the worst problem to have but if you have the time to track it down it would be appreciated. Looks like a few others are seeing it to.

I have this issue with my Zwave door lock. Always says it cant communicate but yet it works just fine. But I get the alerts and have to click through them. Why does it say communication failure if it works? What I did notice is I can lock and unlock all day long by manually doing so from the AC and not comm failure. But if I do it from a program it always comes up as a Comm Failure.