I’ve had my ISY994i and multiple switches, dimmers, and motion detectors at home controlling lights, garage doors, etc for a couple of years now.  I don’t use portal or mobilinc for remote monitoring or control.  I just login to my ISY via my phone and can monitor what’s on/off or change/activate whatever is needed when I’m away.  What am I missing by having not gone the portal or mobilinc path ? 

I’ve had my ISY994i and multiple switches, dimmers, and motion detectors at home controlling lights, garage doors, etc for a couple of years now.  I don’t use portal or mobilinc for remote monitoring or control.  I just login to my ISY via my phone and can monitor what’s on/off or change/activate whatever is needed when I’m away.  What am I missing by having not gone the portal or mobilinc path ? 

 

Security of the hack intercepting your packet IP destinations with a hole punched through your router firewall. I do it too but ISY portal is much faster and offers voice access using google home and Alexa toys with very well done implementations

 

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Voice access is cool I’m sure for those who have Alexa, Google, etc. I don’t think access is any faster though and I use port 443 (which is open anyway) to come in to my home network then hit a reverse proxy on my firewall, offload SSL encryption, and send traffic internally via port 8080 to the ISY.  My access link is something like:  https://isy994.mydomain.com