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I'm looking into alternative home automation controllers. Looking into the Fibaro. Just wanted to know if anyone has experience with it?   The part that intrigues me most is that it can be extended by user-written lua script. Any thoughts on that?   Thanks!

  Pretty sure from all angles a switch to ST hub would be a huge step backward for me. The ONLY 2 things I'm missing from the ISY is multi-channel support and support for Zwave keypads. Not sure it's worth a platform switch to get this. This thread is about "when is 5.0x going to be ready" for...

Getting the thread back on track, I too am disappointed with UDI taking so long to finish 5.x. I have a few multi-channel devices I can only access the 1st relay on and I would like to try out some Zwave wall controllers which the current firmware seems to have complete lack of support of. What...

The advantage of the old Ademco 5800 format was strong signal propagation and wide availability of sensors from Honeywell as well as the aftermarket (Resolution Products and others). They are UL listed and that listing requires the system to be able to detect and report outside jamming attempts...

By definition, at the lamp fixture location (or whatever the load is) there will be a neutral present. The hot (black wire usually) is the power feed so to speak and the neutral (white wire) is the return path. So there HAS to be a neutral present at the load location. The issue that develops is...

Coming into this thread late and skimming the posts I did not see any mention of using "in-box" modules located at the lamp location (where the neutral is) and then a wired wall controller at the switch location. It's relatively simple to rewire the lamp so the local, in-box module does the load...

Assuming there is no way to get the spontaneous counter value updates, the way I would do it is turn a phantom output on for 1 sec immediately after any rule that changes the counter value(s) in question. Your external software would see the output XX On/Off messages and respond with a request...

  And that pretty much narrows down the pros/cons of automation software vs automation hardware (embedded software):   - The software route is infinitely flexible but not as reliable. There is OS, possible other software/drivers to crash, and hardware not purpose-built for 24/7 reliability like...

+1 on a serial interfaced stat to the Elk M1. I also use Apriaire 8800's (upgraded recently from 8870's which I had been using for years) and they are very reliable running direct to the Elk with an M1XSP. They remote control through any Elk-compatible tablet/phone software, same as the rest of...

The thing I really dig about the Elk are all the expansion options: 3 types of wireless, support of multiple input and output expanders, serial expanders, temp sensors, prox card readers & access control, etc. What people seem to overlook is the M1EZ8 offers everything the M1GOLD does except for...

  No worries. The thing about about ISY is it could replace the Leviton Zwave controllers entirely, which would potentially solve the OP's problems.   I will preface the following by saying that while I recently bought an ISY994i-Pro I have not configured it with my M1G yet. I will further state...

  I guess when I read the thread title "ALTERNATIVE to Leviton Zwave controller VRCOP and Stick VRUSB" I assumed that meant that literally they were looking for something OTHER than the VRCOP and VRUSB to setup Zwave on Elk. My bad.

If the RTC (real time clock) battery is weak or dead that could easily cause the RTC chip to lock up or misbehave. The M1 firmware probably doesn't expect this, so when you set the time (manually or automatically), the M1 CPU writes it to the RTC but it doesn't take because the RTC chip is out...

Just curious why no one has suggested ISY-994iZW? It has well established Elk M1 integration, runs on standalone hardware and supports Zwave natively without need of the VRC0P or installer Stick. Refurb units are available off the Universal Devices webstore pretty reasonably ($155-199). The...