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6 hours ago, asbril said:

https://mailchi.mp/zipato/x7g3s84hhd-1121769?e=bcdde65ee8

This year's CES in Las Vegas should give us more exciting developments.

Awesome looking box! Not sure about acting like a thermostat with a quad core CPU inside. I wonder how they intend to connect things to it that are normally hardwired. The animation shows the mounting bracket screwed to the wall with not even a power connection.

Makes me think of a Wink Generation 3-4 though. Definitely have some potential for HA people.

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5 minutes ago, larryllix said:

One of the biggest problem is remembering what I called all those seldom used things

The reason that alexa and google have not found a purpose in my house.  The second reason is that, even when remembered, the voice command is cumbersome and not any easier than pushing a button.

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12 minutes ago, oberkc said:

The reason that alexa and google have not found a purpose in my house.  The second reason is that, even when remembered, the voice command is cumbersome and not any easier than pushing a button.

Then you don't have enough of them. :)

We have at  least one Alexa and one GH in each room and they work well  unless they are close to a working TV.

As we add more device the names get too long though
eg: Christmas outside red string,  or was it Christmas porch red lights?, or was it Outside Christmas red string lights?
Alexa keps reporting there is no such thing. GH would have had my whole house turned on by now.
With more items the length of the name has to have more words. I could create rooms but I don't want to stand outside naked, to operate my Xmas lights, ISY falied to turn off last night. Damn! There goes the snow plough this morning again. :)

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2 hours ago, oberkc said:

The reason that alexa and google have not found a purpose in my house.  The second reason is that, even when remembered, the voice command is cumbersome and not any easier than pushing a button.

We have two homes with multiple google home devices in each. Don't think we have pushed any buttons in either in months except maybe the bathrooms. My wife, the non-techie, is the one who adapted most quickly.

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4 hours ago, palayman said:

Don't think we have pushed any buttons in either in months except maybe the bathrooms

Well, I don't push a lot of buttons.  My goal has been automation.  To me, voice is just another form of a button.

 

6 hours ago, larryllix said:

Then you don't have enough of them.

Too funny.  I have three echos of various type and one google home hub.  My wife, understandably, does not want them in certain rooms.

Just the other day, I came into my office first thing and the TV was on.  Turns out my wife was in the livingroom telling alexa to turn on the TV.  Little did she know that a TV in another room came on.  If they just allowed the inclusion of multiple harmony hubs per account or multiple roku TVs (echos don't even control those) per account...that would be a nice step.

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20 minutes ago, oberkc said:

Turns out my wife was in the livingroom telling alexa to turn on the TV

Lucky man......  My wife is technology unfriendly and prefers to instruct me rather than ask our Google Homes....

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40 minutes ago, oberkc said:

Well, I don't push a lot of buttons.  My goal has been automation.  To me, voice is just another form of a button.

 

Too funny.  I have three echos of various type and one google home hub.  My wife, understandably, does not want them in certain rooms.

Just the other day, I came into my office first thing and the TV was on.  Turns out my wife was in the livingroom telling alexa to turn on the TV.  Little did she know that a TV in another room came on.  If they just allowed the inclusion of multiple harmony hubs per account or multiple roku TVs (echos don't even control those) per account...that would be a nice step.

Longer honey due/do list? :)

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23 minutes ago, asbril said:

Lucky man......  My wife is technology unfriendly and prefers to instruct me rather than ask our Google Homes....

That's why more men have voice control boxes than women. We finally get to tell  somebody what to do!

I have found Google Home to be a bad habit developer.

Hey Waitress!, get me...... seems to get me booted out of restaurants but I still have to pay the darn bill.

With Alexa they just respond My name isn't Alexa! :)

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13 hours ago, asbril said:

The Very First Z-Wave 700 Series Home-Automation Product

Where are all the Home Automation Standards at CES 2019?

".....Z-Wave continues to push its home-automation spec (loudly) at CES 2109, but some of the others like ZigBee, Thread and OCF seem a little subdued this year....."

Z-wave 700 promising 150% increase in range and 10 yr battery life on a coin cell.  

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1 minute ago, kohai said:

Z-wave 700 promising 150% increase in range and 10 yr battery life on a coin cell.  

Another thing that I noticed is the development of so many new technologies. While Zwave seems to have the wind in the back,  the offering of wifi HA devices (without the need of a hub) is growing fast. These may not offer all the whistles & bells that we get from ISY, but for the average non-techie consumer these are an attractive choice and therefore it is likely that more and more devices will come to the market.

I have often posted about Insteon versus Zwave, but now I believe that we have to look at a wider choice. Having 'discovered' Polyglot only a few weeks ago, I am enthusiastic about the expanding options of ISY. As I am far less techie than many in this forum I resisted getting a Raspberry Pi for a long time until some of you guided me through the process. The way that my ISY now controls my  Nest and Chromecast devices has been, for me, revolutionary, and I can't wait for UDI to expand these options. 

Some of these new products on the market have convenient dashboards and I am hopeful (and confident)  that ISY 6.X will have a more user friendly Administrative Console / Dashboard.

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2 minutes ago, asbril said:

Another thing that I noticed is the development of so many new technologies. While Zwave seems to have the wind in the back,  the offering of wifi HA devices (without the need of a hub) is growing fast. These may not offer all the whistles & bells that we get from ISY, but for the average non-techie consumer these are an attractive choice and therefore it is likely that more and more devices will come to the market.

I have often posted about Insteon versus Zwave, but now I believe that we have to look at a wider choice. Having 'discovered' Polyglot only a few weeks ago, I am enthusiastic about the expanding options of ISY. As I am far less techie than many in this forum I resisted getting a Raspberry Pi for a long time until some of you guided me through the process. The way that my ISY now controls my  Nest and Chromecast devices has been, for me, revolutionary, and I can't wait for UDI to expand these options. 

Some of these new products on the market have convenient dashboards and I am hopeful (and confident)  that ISY 6.X will have a more user friendly Administrative Console / Dashboard.

Yeah... those WIFI devices that have an app... ugh.  My father-in-law got a couple for Christmas from another family member.  One of them is even a wall switch device, yet can only be controlled by the app.  For a one-off thing, like controlling the lights for the Christmas tree, it made sense.  But when getting into swapping switches, I was bummed to see they weren't z-wave.  Since they were a gift from another family member, it wasn't like I could suggest he do something else.

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I see those wifi devices like the insteon hub. A stepping stone to automation. Unless you're a techie most want it but don't know why nor what it can do. These simple systems introduce them to this world without the investment in time and money.

As they use these systems, they start wanting more than what they are capable of at which point, controllers such as the ISY come into play

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4 hours ago, lilyoyo1 said:

I see those wifi devices like the insteon hub. A stepping stone to automation. Unless you're a techie most want it but don't know why nor what it can do. These simple systems introduce them to this world without the investment in time and money.

As they use these systems, they start wanting more than what they are capable of at which point, controllers such as the ISY come into play

ISY is not for everybody, only those with OCD for the best!

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