Whatever happened to serial expander, support for wireless?

[madcodger]

All,

 

Bringing up an old topic, but as I move almost complete out of HomeSeer in favor of ISY I'm trying to figure out how to replicate two functions that were very useful to me: The W800 X10 receiver, to make use of the inexpensive motion sensors and DS10A devices, and the RFCOM to support my many Oregon Scientific temp and humidity sensors. If I could bring temp and humidity back into my monitoring and reporting, and then make use of the DA10A's and old X10 sensors (even if via my ELK, as I think I MIGHT be able to connect the W800 with a serial expander there) it would give me almost everything I had with HS (and presumably much more reliability).

 

There was an old thread I found here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1754&start=15

 

that said back in '07 - '08 that a serial expander was being developed, but I never heard any more.

 

Any update on this? If not available via UDI, does anyone have any alternative ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi Joe,

 

Unfortunately you cannot do that now the reason for which were a) not enough demand and RFXCOM only had USB devices.

 

This said, we are working on a few enhancements which will allow easier integration with ISY form a 3rd party perspective. I am crossing my fingers that we should have something quite exciting by the beginning of next year.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[madcodger]

Thanks, Michel, and I completely understand.

 

I will check on Cocoontech about integrating the Elk and W800 (I think I did it once before, but can't remember how). If anyone knows of a good wireless temp / humidity sensor that integrates with the ISY, I'm all ears and would appreciate knowing about them.

 

Joe