Recent content by simplextech

A bit of a delay in a response but I did move the 2-way and 319.5mhz wireless receivers to the attic.  I put the 2-way mostly centered to the main part of the house even.     Checked/Verified termination at the end points.  Meaning making sure nothing was terminated because they are connected...

M1 JP3 is jumpered. XEP is powered externally Relay board has nothing connected yet   One thought I had with the 2-way was because the spectrum is within the 900Mhz range and I have a decent install of Z-Wave devices there might be interference here.  Which is part of the reason I installed the...

  Wired sensors are fast and consistent.  I have 4 wired sensors.  Garage doors and two rope water sensors Single Branch using a M1DBH.  4 devices plugged in terminated at port 5 Devices: Data bus - keypad, 2-way transceiver, 319.5 receiver, lutron interface XEP Relay board Sensors...

I finally went in and bought a Elk M1G and 2-way wireless and 319.5 wireless setup along with some other goodies (Lutron integration), etc etc....   In the setup and testing I'm having "weird" results from the wireless contact sensors.  I've tested with the ELK-6020, ELK-6023 and with Interlogix...

If you have URC already you could extend that with TotalControl to interface with the rest of your items and access the DirecTV receiver and control TV's.   In general most of the DIY systems have very poor media integrations for set top boxes or TV's.  CQC used to have better integration but it...

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Huge shout out to Dean for looking into this and finding the communications issue AND releasing a beta patch LAST NIGHT. 

I'll preface that I don't have UPB so I'm not aware of the quality of the HASS integration nor it's support.    I have used HomeSeer and I'm evaluating CQC for myself and other purposes.  I can say I've gotten far better support from HomeSeer and from CQC than I have relying on the HASS...

Is anyone out there running an ISY994i with 5.x firmware?  I'm having a lot of issues of the driver disconnecting.

NO system can do DIRECT TTS to Alexa.  There are ways of running a Pi that uses the web interface to do this or if the system like ST or ISY and most others are presenting sensors (motion/contact) to Alexa and then through an Alexa routine you can send a TTS.  This is not direct but it clean.  ...

Streaming media sucks on all of the systems.  That's the problem with all of the DRM it's nearly impossible to integrate except at a hardware level.  Most platforms now have a means for starting playback on Roku.  Some with FireTV (this is a hack) but it mostly works.  Allonis has worked on some...

And like most things with HASS it will likely be broken on the next update or you encounter an error in your system and you post to silence on the community and the developer doesn't even respond with any inclination of assistance.  Open Source is great for some things.... HASS is good but not...

That's great!  I can say the same with my 2 hubs but I don't run rules on them which seems to be the common problem.  Which makes Hubitat a good device controller but not so great for automation if it's not reliable. 

Wait are you referring to the same Hubitat hub that has to be rebooted nightly to be stable and has almost weekly DB corruption requiring soft reset and restore otherwise it slows to a crawl until it finally falls over?  Is this the same Hubitat hub you're referring to as "just works" and is...

  A question only UDI can answer.