Recent content by jrgrant

I wish I only had THREE dead switches. I'm up to at least a half dozen. I've been thinking that most of the failure modes shouldn't be too difficult to repair. The symptoms I see most often are devices that still perform local control properly, but won't send or receive UPB data. When I get...

Oops -- yeah, I meant 35A00-1 dimmers. I do have a 39A00-1 phase coupler but I haven't installed it yet. I'm in a rural area a long way from a substation, so we get a fair number of lightning strikes, outages, recloser slams, etc. and the dimmers are mostly eBay purchases with unknown...

So, I have some HAI/Leviton 35A00-1 dimmers that exhibit a sort of similar problem. In my case, I've found a couple of dimmers that have quit communicating though local control is working fine. Replacing the problem dimmer with a "new" 35A00 fixes the problem in the same location, same phase. At...

  And you can do all of the above with the web interface on the IrrigationCaddy S1 for the most part.  You would need to use the rain sensor input on the IC to apply the environmental conditions from an automation system.  Then again, I can look out the window to close the loop when I need to do...

I know all the cool kids want to integrate everything under their preferred home automation controller, but I've had good success with the Irrigation Caddy S1.  It's pretty cheap, has a web interface and it works.  Expect absolutely zero support from the manufacturer -- the company is pretty...

I've been using an older HAI Omni (not Omni II or Omnipro - only serial connections) that I picked up used on Ebay.  I've been impressed by the build quality, low noise construction, bulletproof software and WAF.  We are building a new house and I've got to select the security system.  If I jump...