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I tried one of these from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GPGPEBM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I can't get it to work with UPB. I tried their virtual COM software and loaded UPStart. It will not connect to it. I also tried the Home Assistant plugin. I set...

Has anyone ever found a protocol document for communicating with this player?  Thanks.

I have a seventy year old house that we built up in 2000.  The new wiring is all neat and nicely labelled.  The old wiring is a real mess - apparently over the years they just strung onto the end of circuits all over the house.     So I am going to start tracking it more closely - right now I...

I am looking for a way to shut off the water to my washer when it is not running.  I have a current sensor on the line so I know when it is off or on.  I see stand-alone units that combine the features.  But I don't see a clean way to automate the standard washer valves that you find in a...

Thanks. I do have an old iTouch in an iPort mount by one door. It is a little slow and could be updated to a faster iPhone. However this is not a standard gang mount. Many of my Nuvo controllers are in multiple gang switch plates. So a single gang controller is needed - Decora.

I have a Nuvo Essentia with 12 zones installed in my house.  It still works great today.  However a lot of the keypads are showing their age - buttons not responding as well as they should, etc.  It is difficult to get replacements for them.   So I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations...

Does anyone know what the difference is? I have a Caddx panel and have some NX-455's installed.  I want to add a few more and I found used NX-454's which look similar but I can't find any documentation.  Cost is a fraction of the new NX-455 and these are not for doors that I worry about a lot -...

I have a number of RF shades that I managed to get my Bond hub to control.  Unfortunately the commands get through about 9 out of 10 times.  I was thinking that it would be great to have some sort of sensor that reported whether the shade was up or down.  I was thinking about a small magnetic...

Under Hardware and Sound I don't see a touch screen configuration.  I do see a Pen and Touch section.  And one option to change touch input settings.  There are no settings for sound, only touch actions such as double tap, press and hold, etc.  And under Touch Feedback is has "show visual...

I am using a Planar touchscreen hooked to an Intel NUC running Windows 10.  It uses the default windows 10 touch drivers.  I would like to have it beep every time someone touches the screen.  I don't see anything in the HID settings in Windows 10.  Is there a 3rd party utility that does this...

I would be interested in sharing experiences on these new devices that came out about a year ago.  I have two of the non-amp versions.  I have had nothing but issues with them for my two primary music sources - Sirius XM and Spotify - using the RIO interface.  I was wondering if anyone else was...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a reasonably priced thermometer and/or thermo-hygrometer?  I have so many temp sensors in the house that all report something slightly different it would be good to put a reliable thermometer at the location for a while and then adjust the reported temp on...

Can anyone recommend retrofit roller shade motors that are z-wave compatible?  I want to automate some shades on my porch.  Thanks.

Does anyone have a way to get Sirius XM Now playing information?  I can't find anything regarding an API.  Ideally I would like to query a specific channel and see what is playing on it - Artist, title, etc.

Bumping this topic as I noticed I made a typo that might have made this difficult to understand.   Does anyone know how to get now playing information from Sirius?  I found a few web sites that purport to have this but none of them appear to be working correctly.   I use an XMPCR which does...