Recent content by PeterW

Yes. I've had to resort to that a few times. But it wasn't any help in the case above. Not to mention that older switchlincV2-relay devices didn't have an air-gap disconnect. Newer ones do and you can locally reboot them this way. But older ones required you to flip the breaker or...

I've had one switch do something similar. It has been a while, so please forgive my vague recollection. If I held the ramp-up toggle, it would ramp up to 100% as normal, then suddenly jump to about 20-30% and continue ramping up from there. But then it would suddenly flash to 100% for a moment...

Well, aside from the question of whether it was a return or not, it turned out that it was the EZBridge itself that was at fault. I looked inside the RJ45 socket that the PLM cable plugs into and noticed that the two outer pins are "strange". They were slightly lower than the other pins and...

Speaking of X10.. I have a bunch of smarthome switchlincV1's (all paddles still working!!). Would there be any interest in a giveaway for them? 30-40 devices, a mixture of -relay and -dimmer, with a couple of -timer and -remotes. I'd been meaning to put them up on ebay or something like that...

So, my joy today was discovering a problem with my new SimpleHomeNet.com EZBridge, bought from smarthome. Plugged it in. Watched it DHCP an IP address. Ran setup program. Program says "invalid password". WTF? Sure enough, it has a password on it, even though they're not supposed to have...

BLH: I suspect you are right about safety. I seem to recall reading somewhere that mains-level voltage is (was) present at that header. I have no idea if it was all devices or just some. Interestingly, with the switchlincV2-relay rev2.3 devices, they still went to the trouble of cutting a...

Addendum: I still think the fundamentals of Insteon are great. It is smarthome's execution that I'm depressed/angry about. What's right: The on-the-wire protocol is cheap and effective. Repeating and simulcasting is a pretty good solution to tuned circuit transmitter losses. The protocol...

Digger: No, I bought replacements because it is a hassle dealing with them. I gave up quite a while ago - last year some time. My favourite hassle was when the tech support guy wanted me to reinstall the broken switches so that he could "diagnose" them. I'd had spares from changed plans, so...

BTW: I got some more (yeah, silly me, I know) switchlincV2-relays yesterday, to replace yet more failed devices. I noticed yesterday that the revision was different again. The new ones were rev 2.3. Today, I noticed something else even more interesting. The internals are 100% different...

The only thing that I could think of that would be worse, would be if all of the "old" devices that have been shipped since Day 1 turned out to actually understand extended messaging after all and would attempt to simulcast them (with potential corruption)..... In this scenario, adding 'new' or...

By the way, there is no such thing as "re-initializing signalinc's" (first post in thread). They are unpaired and promiscuously repeat anything they can hear. Incidently, that means you can add any number of them to bridge sigals out of a PLC dead spot via rf. You use the set button to find...

I've done this myself, but with grounded metal boxes - actually designed for outdoor use but they work just fine. I have one on each side of the bed and a switchlincV2-dimmer in each to use in place of the lamplinc modules. I cut a short power cord in half, drilled some holes, put in some...

The problem with HouseLinc's 'swap ID's' is that it doesn't attempt to clear out the links from the old device. And since it deletes the old device from the device list, you have to go and rediscover it and clean out the mess manually. If you don't, then it still responds to the group...

At the risk of prologing the thread, I consider the term "PC" to usually include Windows as part of the package. I suspect lots of other people do too. Anyway, as long a debate as the "what is a PC anyway?" question can cause, it wasn't what I want to get at. I percieve Windows itself to be...

I don't see any traffic problems with the GC-100 that I have. It is plugged into the same local switch in the media area that my media player and two tivos are plugged into. The switch has a gigabit uplink to the core house switch though. Even with both tivos having recordings downloaded at...