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Have you seen the prices used 4 channel receivers are fetching? Some people will pay a lot to watch 4 VU meters jump around, apparently. Or play with that crazy radar scope that was on some systems for setting the balance. Nostalgia. -Tom

OK. If I gave you access, would that change anything? I'd bet that the RA2 DIY crowd is pretty sizable. Reddit is the best source if you want to engage in some market intelligence. And, do you have any interest in creating a PG3 Hubitat NS? It has a very public and powerful REST interface, not unlike IoX itself. Hubitat has the best support for RA2 because one of the developers has a lot of Lutron gear - I think he uses home run wiring to a closet full of Grafik Eye QS systems. As has been discussed above, this isn't Lutron's latest stuff, but the installed base is pretty large. And I'm part of the base. -Tom

I have RA2 and QS Standalone, and they both support telnet. Any chance you will add support? Right now, I'm using ST's PG 2.0 NS for Ra2, and Hubitat for QS Standalone, in conjunction with ST's PG 2.0 Hubitat NS. -Tom

I haven't moved to your nodeserver yet, but I might in the future. These nodes you currently create: would they allow one to control X10 devices set up on the Elk? This is something I'd like to be able to do, since X10 support is falling away at UDI and Insteon.

That's the one I got, and now I'm stuck with no reasonable source for the CM4. Dang it. -Tom

That's singularly good performance. -Tom

I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me that if you think of eisy/Polisy as an appliance (once set up), and focus on the software interfaces it provides, its OS becomes largely irrelevant. If you want to program a Pi in Linux to do something with the devices that are controlled by your eisy/Polisy, you are more than welcome to. And if you set up your networking right, it should be nearly as fast as if it were all running in the same box. -Tom

I've got a setup now where I control some Lutron lights from a switched outlet. The outlet powers a relay that triggers an Insteon Open/Close sensor that triggers an ISY program that triggers a Node Server (ST's RA2 PG2 one) that turns the lights on/off. It's pretty responsive; <200 ms I'd estimate. The Lutron NS's connect to the repeater via telnet over your local network - no cloud involved. I have not tested the responsiveness of Lutron devices triggering Insteon events, but I suspect it would be just as good. This is RA2, though. There isn't a NS for RA3, as lilyoyo1 pointed out, and there may not be one for a while, if ever, due to the authentication hurdle. RA2 is, thankfully, open, but it's possible that it will face dwindling support and device availability, at least for the devices not forward compatible with RA3 and those with RA3-only equivalents. -Tom

I've been reading about the Samsung Station in CES coverage. Here's how it's described: The $60 fast charger is also a Matter controller, Thread border router, and SmartThings hub. So it's based on a charger design: you put your phone on top, and it charges wirelessly. Apparently, that's one of the events it can fire as a controller. It also functions as a button with single tap, double tap, and press 'n hold events. I'd love to have one or more, IF I could get my Polisy to see and respond to these events. If it only works in the Smartthings ecosystem that's a non-starter. But how can I find out if this will ever be possible? Is this a Thread/Matter device that I can enroll into my Policy? Doubt it, since it's also a border router and hub. Are there hub-to-hub or router-to-router communications built into Matter that I can tap into? I don't understand what's possible, or could be in the future. -Tom

@upstatemike: I don't have any answers, but I sure love the way you state the questions. -Tom

Agree. Twice now I've had to use SSH and sudo to get up to date, when I wouldn't have had to if I'd been installing every update as it became available. But pick your poison. I have no doubt both Polisy and eisy will reach a state where you can skip updates most of the time if you don't need the fixed functionality, like the 994i did.

Gives new meaning to the term "wall wart". -Tom

True. And my eyesight is headed one way. Hint - not better. -Tom

I have a vague recollection of trying this myself years ago, and you're right, those buttons can't do anything except control the Insteon devices linked to that remote. No programming. -Tom

Not helium - Helium. And no, it's not all mine. I think I'll take a pass. -Tom

Thanks to your post, I'm now aware of the existence of Helium mining. Just when I thought life couldn't get any weirder... -Tom

The HK "devices" I have are a mix of Lutron devices: some from the RA2 bridge and some from the Hubitat support, both of which I registered with a QR code (physical sticker on the former, screen image on the latter). I've never enrolled an individual stand-alone HK-supported device in HK. -Tom

@Geddy: Just deleted the .state file, and that half fixed the problem. My Polisy, like your eisy, isn't automatically found. And I guess you can't tell me why, b/c if you knew how to make it work you'd be able to find your eisy automatically. I will start another thread asking for help with automatic finding. -Tom

I've been using the Homekit support in Hubitat for a while now. So far, so good. -Tom

Allow me to commit a minor hijack. Can someone explain to me how the entries in the Finder get automatically populated, and how to troubleshoot issues with that process? I just replaced my old Policy with a newer one. When I launch the Finder, it stays empty for about 10 seconds, and then a lone entry shows up - the old Policy, which is no longer powered up (or connected to the network, obviously). I have added the new one three or four times, and after the last time I finally saved the configuration. But I have to load it every time. How can I get back to the days of yore, when my 994i was always automatically found every time, and no ghosts of UDI past haunted me? Are the entries cached somewhere? Is my router blocking some necessary snooping protocol? Is there a box I need to check in the AC? -Tom

I'm going to give a shout out to ee. I use the arrow keys to navigate and can always see what I'm doing. I use it to put a # in front of things I want to hide, or change one letter or number at a time. -Tom (clearly not a developer)

I'd be careful recommending this. Note how old that post is. I did just a little googling recently and found a lot of more recent posts lamenting the poor support for HA on FreeBSD. Not claiming I'm an expert, though. -Tom

Same

I had thought about this, but you guys are really smart, and I bet you can figure out how to do it. Given that many people (I'm one of them) would normally first experience this failure, should it happen again, as a failure of Alexa to work correctly, and that there are so many other reasons why Alexa can fail (and dare I say they're more probable, too), getting a proactive notification would be helpful. And after the restoration, we'd know to relink if it still failed to work, as you suggested above. If there's a third party that can provide the same service, which wouldn't surprise me, please consider that, too. And anyone who reads this, if you know of an existing service I can use to get a notification, please let me (us) know. -Tom

Maybe this is a dumb question, but could you guys set up a separate watchdog computer that pings your own portal (but doesn't depend in any way on it) and send us (if we've opted in to such a thing) an email that the service is down/up? -Tom