November 3Nov 3 Anyone who knows my former life will remember my involvment with Applied Digital and the Ocelot/Leopard controllers. The controller is outdated, but the expansion modules and IR capabilities are still useful, and my Ocelot hasn't missed a beat in the 26 years I've had it. If you're still using it, chances are you're triggering routines with slow and unreliable X10 commands from your eisy. Well I've been working on a plugin for it, using eisy-ai and it's almost fully functional. If there is community interest in it, I'd polish it up and make it available as a plugin. It would be free. I also need to make sure I understand the code well enough to properly support it. So let me know!
15 hours ago15 hr Nice to see someone is still using it. I had an Ocelot/Leopard setup for many years as well. I used it to control my HVAC, a few baseboard heaters, sprinkler system, and lights in the house. It was a nice system and worked well for many years but I switched over to ISY in 2014 because of 3 main issues: my leviton 4 button X10 switches kept failing because of heat problems; a bug with the X10 preset dim commands; and the screen on my Leopard failed and a replacement was a special (and expensive) order.
15 hours ago15 hr Author Well like I said, the controller itself (Ocelot or Leopard) is obsolete, but can still be used to access any expansion modules, like the SECU16, SECU16I and SECU16IR modules. A Leaopard with a dead screen just becomes an oversized Ocelot.
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