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Yes, I’ve heard. I wasn’t planning to foray much into zigbee beyond what Aqara has. But their stuff seems so good. I loved their door lock and that started my interest in Aqara. I have an M2 hub. Right now, my house isn’t finished. I am planning on adding several thread devices like nanoleaf led strips and some nanoleaf lines. I will probably do the Aqara T1 light strip as well. The Homey Pro has a fairly high up front cost, but there aren’t (to my knowledge) any extras or continuing charges like there are for the EISY. My thread network will be managed by my existing AppleTVs.

I used polisy in my last house. At this point I have not decided if I am going to use a platform at all yet. If I do, it may be a hodgepodge of different hubs. I’m going to start out with an Aqara Hub. The Homey pro device is looking like a legit option at this point if I do want to settle on a platform. EISY is also a contender.

Well, maybe I will be the first on this forum to really work extensively with thread. I am building a new house, and I plan to use a lot of thread devices. I plan to start out with some nano leaf LED strips and add some eve light switches. I will try to report back on what I find out. But it may be a few weeks.

I have. Smartwings doesn’t go that big with outdoor shades either. I’d love some shades with the rails on the side as well to make them more wind resistant. Smartwings doesn’t have those either. I found These but this isn’t a DIY company. There are other companies with wind resistant shade/screen, but none are for the DIYer.

Does anyone have any experience with matter devices yet? I know of only 2 manufacturers using them for switches right now, Eve and Belkin. It appears that the Eve switches store schedules on the device which seems to be a novel feature.

They don’t make them larger than 96 inches in width. I need 120 inches for outdoor shades. I believe the Lutron Serena shades are all for indoor use only.

I’m currently building a house. I have prewired some windows that don’t get any sunlight with 16/2 wire. I’m looking for a window shade, manufacturer, or motor. I don’t really care what protocol it is. It could be thread, Zigbee, or Z wave. But I would like to include these in home automation scenes. I have run the 16/2 wire back to the central location in a wiring closet. I need a multi output 12 V power supply as well. I have a server rack in this wiring closet. So if the power supply can mount in a server rack, that would be a bonus. I don’t want to use anything expensive like Somfy. I’m also needing some really large outdoor shades that are going to be, about 10 x 10‘. And I would like to automate them as well.

I was assuming that if the neutral wire wasn't at the switch, there would still be one at the fixture. Is that not so? I'm not very familiar with how they wired these older houses.

A couple years ago, I bought an old house that is our vacation home. The house is several decades old, I'm thinking it was originally built around 50 years ago, but has been added onto a couple times. It's a great house but unfortunately, some of the wiring is dated. I'm not there to look at stuff right now, but I don't think it has a neutral wire in the box. There is one room where two fixtures are on the same switch. At the moment, they're not controllable independantly. One of the fixtures is a fan light and the other is a regular fixture that we've put halogen bulbs in. The question is this. I'd like to split them so that they are controlled independantly. Can I do this with insteon equipment? I was thinking of putting a fan control module on the fan light and doing a micro on/off (or dimmer) module in the base of the second fixture. But how would I control them? I could use the small remotes to control them, remove the switch and tie the hot wires together at the wall switch. Is that an option? Doing so, I'd lose the ability to control them with a wall switch, right? If there is a neutral wire, I guess I could do the same thing, but instead of eliminating the wall switch, I could put in a 6 button keypad right?

Isn’t it possible also to connect HA directly to an Insteon PLM (without a hub) from say a Raspberry Pi or old PC?

So, do you see problems using led bulbs with caseta 2 wire switches?

Well, that may limit my ability to install Insteon anyway. Caseta stuff is all 2 wire I believe.

I don’t see a 2 wire version. Have they said if that’s coming?

Other than form factor, what is new with these devices?

As a follow up, I think moving to Matter over time is a possibility. I’d love to see EISY/polisy gain some HomeKit functionality so that I didn’t have to run homebridge.

I’m moving to a new house. Leaving behind my 15 year old Insteon/ISY system and starting all over again. My system was fully DIY. I had an ELK alarm, Rachio, weatherflow tempest, and myQ garage door openers. I’ve looked at other switches, specifically Caseta, RA3, Z wave, etc. I’m down to staying with Insteon and it’s constant state of uncertainty, vs Caseta. The main drawbacks I see with Lutron is that there are no scene controllers. I really like my tabletop remotes/scene controllers and that’ll be hard to part with. If it weren’t for that, caseta would be my choice. It’s fairly simple, reliable, inexpensive, and from a very stable company. Plus, it already integrates with apple HomeKit. Another drawback is that they have very few switches to choose from and the look and feel of Insteon equipment is far superior. Right now, I’m planning to carry my new Polisy with me and leave my old ISY-994 for the new homeowners. So I’ll have to revert everything to the old hardware. Is there a way to print out a table with all my switch addresses and switch names so that I could manually rebuild the ISY-994? Is there a way to revert to the older 994 without having to do this? Does anyone see z wave as a realistic option right now? I keep hearing about the popcorn effect… I’ve never seen that in person, but coming from Insteon I’m sure it’d get on my nerves. Has anyone played with a z wave 800 device yet? As far as the new i3 switches from Insteon, are they more reliable? Have a better wireless range? I did occasionally have some reliability issues with my Insteon switches. The fact that Insteon didn’t seem to improve wireless range and reliability issues over time is also concerning to me. Do the new i3 switches still use power line communication at all?

I’m selling my home that has lots of Insteon devices and a polisy controller. This was all a DIY install. I’d like to find someone the new homeowners can contact for problems.

I have a brother in law who uses the neater often and he really likes it. I have a bbq guru on my backwoods cabinet smoker and really like it. I slow cook often for large parties. You can get a guru for the egg but mine has 3 temp probes. More than you’d need for a BGE. if you’re unfamiliar with the bbq guru, you should check it out. It makes charcoal or wood fire cooking a lot easier and it is a self contained system. You can configure it to alert you by email if there are problems or when your meat reaches desired temp.

May have been answered, but since we have always run these headless, will there be additional functionality that will use HDMI?

It’s good that they seem willing to listen to their user base.

The media event is the beginning of next month and they should have some matter certified products to show by then.

Thanks for the overview. I wasn’t aware of those caseta limitations. And I’m not really asking about all the “future” options. Just wanting to know the major issues with the currently available paradigms. I don’t use hue. I’m only interested in switches.

Can someone with experience in all these give an synopsis of some of the different paradigms out there? Like Lytton caseta and Radio RA3, z-wave 700 and 800, Insteon, and zigbee. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone planning to join? They say limited seats, so maybe we post some questions here for those that will join the zoom call to consider. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This isn’t a discussion about the current state of home automation, it’s a discussion about where things are headed with home automation and IoT. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk