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Youtube video of Insteon with the new CEO, and Steve Lee making a comeback painting new hope. Insteon rebuilding the technology

Many have complained elsewhere about some browsers not functioning with cocoontech.com lately.   Apparently my FF version must have been behind in updates as the last two updates to FF over the last week or so has locked me out from reading the forums.   According to cloudFlare they get a...

Amazon Sidewalk is a WiFi sharing technology that was enacted and enabled for your account. This is one of the problems with sharing your WiFi password that Amazon and others do. I recommend everybody owning Alexa devices have a look at this. It may be a gross security hole for your LAN. Here...

Today will be the sixth anniversary of my ISY994 and PLM!   Purchase date was January 2, 2014.  I purchased my ISY994 from aartech.ca for $159 CAD, and PLM for $79 CAD.     I tested a backup PLM during the big PLM PS capacitor scare a few years ago, for a few months to prove it's worth, but the...

Afraid of losing their smart control  ground, the single-sourced chip producer decides they might need to open the playing field.   https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21029661/zwave-open-standard-radios-smart-home-multiple-vendors-silicon-labs  

Requests for information from Insteon reveal  Insteon stating they have fixed the power supply caps problems the older PLMs with v2.5 now.   It looks like Smarthome has PLM's on sale until 10/11/2019 for $29.99.  Coupon code: PLM29.  One per customer.

UDI must have finally receievd Zwave Plus certification. No more beta versions.   https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/27669-release-5016-rc1-is-now-available/

ISY994i + PLM $129   ISY994i with Zwave board  $129   https://home-automation.smarthome.com/search?w=ISY994

Some really like these things. I have four so far and they have been so reliable and accurate. http://www.wirelesstag.net/index.html#sec_als Very easy to interface to an ISY994i. Code appears to run locally on the manager but is cloud dependant to enable. I can't make them disconnect within...

Last night in throughout the night I received four notifications of high winds from my ISY994i HA system. This is fed by he WC8 board stuffing variable data  into the ISY via it's REST  interface and using the WEBSET commands built into the WC8.   The counter input is fed from a dry contact...

I need to replace a heating mixer with outdoor reset panel and the WC8 or WC 32 is being considered.   One of the main stumbling blocks I have incurred so far is running a capacitor run pump with variable speeds.   One pump control for the circulating pump would be easy with an opto-isolated...

This board would make an excellent WiFi to MiLight LED RGBW LED strip and bulb controller if it could input over Wifi from an ISY994i HA controller and output UDP packets to a MiLight bridge.   The problem is that the MiLight bridge requires UDP bytes with 100ms gaps between some of them to...

Let's take the simple lines of code to test non-equality of two items and the results of the conditional branch       TSTNE  A B     GOTO  NOTSAME SAME:     do some stuff...   NOTSAME:      do some other stuff...       Now the TSTNE usually performs the usual mental, behind the scenes...

Doing further testing and removing the +5v wire on a probe to the terminals I must have glitched the input to the 1wire input.   The probe AIP2  that I removed locked onto  an input reading of 85.0 C. The probe read room temperature, before the disturbance, and I understand the WC locks onto the...

- "quote" doesn't work - no paste, pictures, attachments into a post - I can only get the '<>' button to work. - attempting to attach pictures etc. results in a URL box that is no escape without killing process. - if the "del" button is pushed it deletes the whole paragraph - compatibility mode...

 I have two DS18B20 probes that I connect to my 1wire bus. I have noticed they only display 0.5C resolution in my WC registers. As I understand it both models only have 0.5c accuracy but the DS18B20 has selectable 9-12 bit resolution.   If I connect a DS18B20 part and only get 0.5c resolution, -...

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After having some problems with negative temperatures I attempted to investigate how the CAI WC PLC handled negative integers conversion back and forth between 32 bit to 16 bit variables.   Well it turns out that a negative integer represented as a 32 bit two's  complement number converts to a...

My PLC programme editor errors out when "Sending" about every 5-10 edits and I have to reload the PLC Program page before that or the "Send" button reports an error. If I reload the PLC Program page before that I am good for about 5-10 more edits without trouble. This can be going to another...

I need to get wiring access to Input 1 for counter/frequency data massaging. This will be used for an anemometer that puts out dry contact pulses. While this seems fairly easy I need some input on the hardware to use.   Looking at the board I see I probably need - 16 pin ribbon cable with 16 pin...