Yesterday, I spent about an hour on Michel's Open ADR webinar. Not so much for the ADR portion, but the announcement intrigued me. Sure enough, it was time well spent. UD is expanding eisy UI to include AI AND it appears to bring plain English language to program creation, control, analyzing, and even troubleshooting.

The announcement is here:

Universal Devices

eisy meets AI!

ai, ev, iot, matter, node server, plugin, powerwall, smartgrid, storage, tesla

and ends with this:

WHAT’S NEXT

Soon after, we’ll have another webinar going deep into what you can do with YOUR own eisy and your configuration. Stay tuned for details.

Sounds like big plans are in the works.....

I’m excited at ability to write programs in English and I was a long time programmer.

8 minutes ago, hart2hart said:

I’m excited at ability to write programs in English and I was a long time programmer.

The demo was very impressive.

It would be nice it UD published the webinar dates in their Announcements on the Forum..

And if there is a YouTube link so those who miss their webinars can follow up after.

I imagine that this would be something you'd have to subscribe to, like the portal?

It's an interesting idea, widening the potential user base towards a less technical audience.

15 minutes ago, Guy Lavoie said:

It's an interesting idea, widening the potential user base towards a less technical audience.

Less technical like my brother 🤦‍♂️

He would love it!

50 minutes ago, mmb said:

It would be nice it UD published the webinar dates in their Announcements on the Forum..

And if there is a YouTube link so those who miss their webinars can follow up after.

There was an email blast from UD a few weeks ago and the announcement posted on their website. You might need to sign up for email alerts from UD.

I believe the host (OpenADR) is posting the recording. You might want to check their site for this and past events.

Indeed they have released the recording and slides - https://www.openadr.org/webinar-series - "OpenADR 3 Price Signals and Local AI to Automate any Building or Device"

Happy watching! I signed up for it and signed in at the start, but had work happen so couldn't listen to the whole thing. Glad the recording is up so quick so can watch it this weekend while snowed in. ❄️

I was on the webinar also. It looks like very exciting stuff!

The nucore.ai code is on github but with very little documentation. I was anxious to install and run something like Michel was running but I couldn't even figure out where to start. Does it actually run on eisy or does it run on another computer that interacts with eisy?

I've got an EE degree and have been programming for decades, but I feel like an idiot at the moment.

Edited Friday at 09:03 PM2 days by Sticklizard

55 minutes ago, Guy Lavoie said:

I imagine that this would be something you'd have to subscribe to, like the portal?

It's an interesting idea, widening the potential user base towards a less technical audience.

While nothing was mentioned, for the demo, it was built right in to eisy.local. We will need to wait to find out, unless @Michel Kohanim , can provide some insights?

29 minutes ago, Sticklizard said:

The nucore.ai code is on github but with very little documentation. I was anxious to install and run something like Michel was running but I couldn't even figure out where to start. Does it actually run on eisy or does it run on another computer that interacts with eisy?

Runs on eisy and the interface is eisy ui.

52 minutes ago, DennisC said:

While nothing was mentioned, for the demo, it was built right in to eisy.local. We will need to wait to find out, unless @Michel Kohanim , can provide some insights?

Runs on eisy and the interface is eisy ui.

What threw me was the option of running a local LLM with a GPU which eisy doesn't have

I saw his URL was eisy-dev so thought that would been an eisy development machine. I'm reluctant to github clone onto the box without knowing how to configure it to show on eisy-ui

25 minutes ago, Sticklizard said:

What threw me was the option of running a local LLM with a GPU which eisy doesn't have

I saw his URL was eisy-dev so thought that would been an eisy development machine. I'm reluctant to github clone onto the box without knowing how to configure it to show on eisy-ui

Adding to the speculation, it could be argued there'll be another eisy family product in the future with the necessary HW. Having said that, AI code can be written server side on existing platforms like Claude, today.

1 hour ago, paulbates said:

Adding to the speculation, it could be argued there'll be another eisy family product in the future with the necessary HW. Having said that, AI code can be written server side on existing platforms like Claude, today.

Yes, I saw the edge and cloud options. Maybe we could run a local LLM and address that as our "cloud" to keep it all in-house.

Well, it may be moot for me since my eisy is not R2.

Edited yesterday at 04:16 AM1 day by Sticklizard

and then there is this element:

19 hours ago, Geddy said:

There was an email blast from UD a few weeks ago and the announcement posted on their website. You might need to sign up for email alerts from UD.

Thanks Getty, I can't find the email and nothing on the site that I can find - this prompted the post as I was looking for the webinar date in February.

I've suggested to Michel previously that UD undersells itself for such a great automation product.

2 hours ago, mmb said:

this prompted the post as I was looking for the webinar date in February.

I'm sure once the future (February?) date is set, I'm sure there will be another email blast about it and an update on the UD site.

In the meantime if you didn't get an email about it make sure you're subscribed to get "Product News and Announcements" in your account on the UD site.

Go here: https://www.universal-devices.com/my-account/

Sign in with the portal.

On the "General" screen on the right should be a "Email Newsletters" section. Make sure to check "Product News and Announcements". I'm guessing that's the list Michel uses when news is posted to the UD site. I got the email on Jan 20th and the news/blog update appears to have been posted 1/19.

On 1/30/2026 at 2:12 PM, hart2hart said:

I’m excited at ability to write programs in English and I was a long time programmer.

If
. . . .you are able to program
Then
. . . .it can be a lot of fun
. . . . While
. . . . . . . .you are still young enough AND NOT stressed out

Edited 21 hours ago21 hr by larryllix

8 hours ago, dbwarner5 said:

and then there is this element:

Careful of the names you addresss them by, and stereotypes you assume. If those AIkins become offended, we have no idea what they are capable of yet.

On 1/30/2026 at 2:12 PM, hart2hart said:

I’m excited at ability to write programs in English and I was a long time programmer.

If...and...or...then...else

Aren't those English words? 😆

I too was on the webinar. Great job @Michel Kohanim !

I too programmed in the day and can still do it. The ability to use AI to do it is intriguing especially for the more complicated programs. At the very least even if AI doesnt nail it on the first shot it is a starting point for me to tweak.

I’ve wired up OpenClaw to my home assistant and am looking at ways to use it with the eisy as well. I’m super impressed with how fast it’s progressed in a very short time.

I’ve used codex to design and code an interface to my Elk Products E27 alarm system too. If I’d had this tech back when I was working I’d have been a hundred times more productive.

I’m going to turn OpenClaw loose on my eisy logs to watch for issues and help troubleshooting.

I want to introduce it to PolyGlot to see what it can do there too. My guess is that it will be able to produce custom plugs-ins on demand, it’s already authored a couple of appdaemon apps for home assistant to do some things I’ve needed for a while now but was too busy to write myself.