jlegault

Mostly I did this so I could hit the "undo" button as I was learning. It's possible it will help with a disaster recovery later, but rolling back snapshots is a nice hack.

I discovered the world of low power micro PCs and picked up 12th gen intel unit with enough resources to run proxmox and then HAOS in a VM. It's turning out to be more aligned with my values and vision for home automation.

I have a few items I no longer need: Polisy non-pro unit - $175 Zwave/Zigbee + matter module and USB enclosure - $90 ISY 994ZW/IR Pro with the 500 series Zwave upgrade- $100 All were working as of a few minutes ago (the matter module is still waiting for firmware). Finally decided to move on, hard decision - but someone will be happy to pick this stuff up! Thanks

You can break off the end of the card, it's the only way to fit it in there with the antennas. BTW - which antenna goes to which radio?

^^^^What he said....

I feel so behind the times. I was about to start migrating to my Polisy and have a matter/zwave card ready to install, but got an email about the EISY? Is that the future? If I'm mostly zwave, should I just wait to migrate IoP to the EISY instead? It looks like a different software stack and platform than the Polisy. I have found little info on it, so if anyone can put some light on this, please do!

I am very interested in this too. About to take the plunge into whole exterior lighting.

Is there a way to run a native ARM JVM that can run the admin console?

I walked away for a bit, took some deep breaths. That post was a primal scream, not unlike many others I've let out in this hobby over the last 20+ years. Michel, I appreciate your response and I understand. I'm plinking away at my Polisy, and will be upgrading with the new comms module you just launched. My comment was not fair. I can see how it is useful. in my case, I was looking for access to information shared on the internal bus of the RS system so I can monitor PH/ORP and chemical tank levels. The RS485->RS232 and homeseer software module I used to run (until a lightning strike) had full access to the internal bus and registered as a node on it. You can sniff the protocols on the RS485 bus to see pretty much everything and act like a member on it. Buuuut not easy to run a cable into the house. The Wifi controller they have seems to run a very basic API, and then it has an emulator that runs their LCD interface and gives you access to everything visually - but I don't see how you could ever tokenize that or screen scrape it to create a programatic interface. In any case, I should not have called it a Toy. I was just frustrated because that use case was the tipping point that opened my wallet to get a Polisy and get home bridge running on a Pi. Jandy has zero reason to participate or make this easy unless you pay them. In any case, play on gents! I appreciate all the comments.

This is both a request for a strategic investment and a bit of a venting of frustration. Home automation has been a hobby of mine for 20+ years now. I've used everything. I think all of us know it's an investment in hardware and time. My recent life has mostly been trying to keep my system relatively modern while allowing all of my investments to talk to one another under one rule base. What I am finding is that it's not really worth it to me anymore. My most recent change was to move to Ecobee thermostats away from an RS485 system controlled by 50+ rules in my ELKM1. Holey cow, the ecobee is excellent. It's like using an iphone after having been using a cd player for 15 years. My point is that there are some very nice hardware and software coming out, but I am tired of being trapped in an ecosystem that fails to understand its customers needs - and failing to grow to add more customer segments. There have been many ecosystems over time that have attempted to take seed, but none that have thrived. You have to ask yourself why that is the case. For a long time my ISY was this hope. It is my Zwave + Elk and later + SmartSpeaker (though super clunky) hope. I am starting to realize, now having bought a Polisy, setup home assistant, and homebridge, and played with it for a few weeks, that I'm not on the right train. The Universal Devices train is not converging with where smart homes are going. As much as you might hate apple and google, they are going to own (or decide) the ecosystem. I am actually happy they will win, because from what I've seen - it JUST WORKS and is democratized for anyone to use, including my wife and kids. 2021 and 2022 are going to be inflection points for hardware moving to new standards to access the explosion of users from non technical market segments. I am an engineer and a geek at heart. I can make my ISY do what I need it to do with enough Pi's and ductape. But it's no longer worth it to me. For example, I was hoping my Polisy would be able to connect to my Aqualink RS and tell me when my chemical tanks were empty - there is a node for iAqualink. BUT you know what, the node is a toy. It does nothing useful. It's because the developer did not attempt to work with Jandy to get access to an API, instead it's a hack unsanctioned by the manufacturer. Most other nodes I have running are the same. I can't help but wishing that Universal would attempt to converge with where automation is going and focus on being a bridge to this new world. I think they could do an amazing job working with HomeKit. They are very good developers and they have excellent customer support, not to mention they have fostered a passionate community. But alas, the options that connect to homekit are rubblish (I'm sorry to say this, as I know there are passionate individual developers out there who are trying hard). The Homekit optinos are not embedded-system reliable like I have been used to (like ELK and ISY), and it's a lot of work just to make a single device useful. I'd like to see a way to put devices (either directly, or via a virtual wrapper) into homekit natively from ISY. I don't want to be forking github projects to fix bugs or revitalize something that has gone dead (like the ISY homebridge connector). I see Universal's goal to create an ecosystem that allows developers to make money. That's interesting, but there are not enough of us geeks to make that enough of a financial proposition for developers in that ecosystem such that they create long lasting and robust solutions. They need to get more users, and I think the only way that happens is if Universal becomes the bridge from the old world to the new world. There are COUNTLESS reddit conversations about getting elk or zwave into homekit (as an example) and zero mention of ISY. So, to repeat my ask. I would like to see Universal become a bridge to HomeKit (and Matter) as a priority and native ability. I don't expect that to happen. So I will be gradually migrating to devices that support that standard, and eventually, like I've done by removing my ELKs control over my thermostats, remove my need for my ISY to manage my doorlocks, lights, and sensors. If you read that entire rant, thank-you (and I'm sorry for the rant).