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My son bought a house with a Xantech whole house audio system with a D5RH controller and D5KP keypads (appear to be discontinued).  They are going to be doing some remodeling and one of the keypads is going to end up behind a piece of artwork.  We looked at moving the keypad, but it's going to...

My apologies for the delay in responding to this thread.  I would like to provide some updated information relative to the state of the UPB market.    As many users of this forum know, over the years, there have been 4 major vendors of UPB.  PCS (Pulseworx) is the inventor of UPB and licensor of...

Our product, the RUC-01, has been mentioned a few times in this thread, so I’d like to provide a little more detail about the philosophy behind the RUC and what we think it is best at. The intention of the RUC was not, at least initially, to be a replacement for something like HomeSeer, or even...

Just to provide info on our product, the Web Mountain Remote Universal Controller (RUC-01) has two serial ports so you can interoperate between two different protocols with one RUC-01. The RUC-01 allows you to control UPB modules from Insteon, Zwave or X10 modules; control Zwave modules from...

There are a number of ways to implement RF wireless control of UPB networks. One way is to use RF gear from Linear (or similar companies) along with UPB IO modules. Linear sells motion detectors and handheld wireless remotes that are being used in many homes to control UPB modules. Basically...

Ok, thanks to InToZ-wave, I now have a RZCOP to play with. And, I've made some progress. Using the procedure from Xlurkr, I've got the VRCOP mostly working. I can send commands from my controller through the VRCOP and control the Homemanageable plugins and the Wayne Dalton dimmer. However...

Thanks so much for the information. I'll go get one of these and try my setup again.

Thanks so much for the replies. So, my first thought was to go get a VRCOP unit. I checked Smarthome, Home Controls, and Automated Outlet. None of them seemed to carry the product. I found one site that appeared to have one but they were quite expensive. So, I contacted the folks at...

I'm hoping to get a little help from you Zwave experts on this forum. We're UPB guys, but we've been playing with other technologies with our new RUC-01 controller, as we're providing the ability to convert one protocol to another. I'm having an issue with Zwave that is very perplexing. In...

I can comment on a couple of installations of UPB with solar. We saw one several years ago with an early generation inverter where the output of the inverter was absolutely horrible. It looked like a step approximation of a sine wave with a small number of steps. In that installation (which...

Frederick - we've had this problem a couple of times for higher current applications, most notably trying to filter a solar installation. What we did was parallel 2 or 3 of the existing 10 or 15 A filters and had pretty good success. Does it need to be plug in or can it be wired in? Using...

The folks in this forum run into everything! We have seen UPB issues created by the Pentair Intelliflow variable speed pool pumps. They are pretty nasty in terms of polluting the powerline. One of our dealers in CA uses UPB in his pool installation and service business and runs into this. He...

We used to see quite a few complaints like this with Gen 1 UPB devices. Gen 2 devices have really reduced these issues. However, we still see a few - just a handful out of the many installations we have supported. I have one dimmer in my lab that acts like you are describing - the only...

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for. PCS makes a 1500W and a 2400W dimmer that are much larger and fit into 2 gang junction boxes. They are quite expensive, but handle larger loads. There are a couple of new vendors making 50 Hz dimmers for the European market that have a squarish...

Multiple topics have been touched upon here and a great suggestion was made by Ano. His suggestion is how we go about identifying circuits that attenuate UPB signals and also how we find UPB noise interferers. Let me comment on some of the other items in the thread. 1. When using Upstart, and...