Recent content by SmarthomeJohn

Bunk! That took a lot of time to set up and it looked very cool! Can't wait to see what you have in mind for Christmas.

Fantastic look. Blown away! Great job Dan!

Strongly agree. It won't hurt your home's INSTEON performance. Go for it using the advice of others in this post.

I too have thought about this and done some investigation. From what I learned, it makes the most economic sense if your home is located in the southern part of the USA (where the summers are hot). The benefits of installing it in Michigan or New England make less economic sense. Also, it...

Hi Ben, This is 11 years at Smarthome talking. Every few years some company goes to X10 and buys millions of $$ of X10 re-branded products with the grand scheme of selling them into an existing channel. Probably, in this case, B&D salespeople were expected to go to their accounts and sell this...

Yes dice. Extended messages are enabled in the PLM's firmware. ;) For development partners here who received samples of the PLM, this feature was enabled beginning with Firm 2.5 Contact me (at SmartLabs) or your SmartLabs business development contact on Monday if you need an update to...

The PLM with a serial interface should be shipping in the next week or two. Part #2412S will be available to everyone. We do have a version of the PLM without a daughter card that is reserved for partners who will be adding their own boards. SimpleHomeNet's products are an example. SJ

The requirement of a 10ms delay between bytes has been eliminated for the released product. While some may find it hard to believe, we listened to the feedback of our development partners and adapted the code to accept an entire standard and extended message via the serial port. SJ

Front what I have learned, the indoor unit will be more like a LCD display and not much bigger than a caller ID box. I'll pass along the idea of a serial port, but I like the idea of a HA program and interface grabbing the data directly from the breaker box sensor unit. We have 16 million...

I would have to say that the first run they plan to make is directed towards a major utility company in Q2. We are planning to supply then a "five-digit" quantity of Insteon PLM chips for the first run, which would cover .1 percent of that utilities' customer base. The project is more...

Perhaps, one day that will be possible. :unsure: One of our Insteon partners (can't say which one) is developing an product that uses Insteon communications between the sensors at the breaker box and an indoor display unit. Tell me what you would like to see and I'll pass along the ideas. SJ

This is correct. The processor uses the zero crossing detection circuit to help maintain the time between updates from the RTC.

It varies +- 2 seconds randomly it seems during the day.....Its a very small and insignificant amount but I do not understand what is going on. ? I agree that plus or minus two seconds is pretty insignifant. What happens in the PLC is that at the top of every minute, it "runs through" the...

Yes, the load-controlling modules like wall switches do support the old X10 Status Request command. There is also an Insteon version of this command too. Yes, both use the PRESET Dim command set for directly controlling the dimmer's light level. SJ

Hi Upstate, We use a "code protection" bit on the processors to disable reading back (uploading) the programming. This was done mainly for competitive reasons where we need to closely guard the programming code and (if disassembled) the programming linw data. If you were able to fabricate a...