Recent content by waynehead99

As stated before and this is my opinion, zigbee has it built in by intention to have the ability to lock out other Controller's outside of the ecosystem they were created for. I get it. Control4 wants their stuff to stay with them. They think it will make a return. Short term it does work, which...

I never understand why zwave gets such a bad rap. I have been using it for 5 years and my experience has been it's the controller that has been the issue, not the devices. I started with Vera and that system almost killed my HA hobby before it even got started. Currently I am on homeseer with...

So I am curious about everyone getting on the wireless charging band wagon. Everything I have seen is its still a work in progress with other vendors and not efficient. Uses more energy and takes longer to charge. Yes there is the convenance factor, but Apple has shown in the past that it only...

Isn't there a law against this? I know there is for cars, but I would think technically this is just an oversized car that has a specialized purpose.

Pete. Your stories scare me. We have been dealing with an uprise in crime in our neighborhood too. I live in what I would consider a privileged area. Criminals are catching on that nicer stuff is in nicer areas. So the comments above that I was reading about finding a nicer place to live are...

I am using infinitude to parse data into homeseer and have very basic control (Using basic url commands) I can parse the xml, but curious how others are using this to control? There has got to be a better way than I am doing. Plus examples would help my brain. Thanks everyone that built this and...

Glad you like it. Homeseer is like all the others out there and has some issues, but overall they have a great product and its stable. I came from Vera and that thing was a mess and only getting worse.

If you clean up some files to keep it from calling out I have seen reports that things work. I did not do this though. When the Internet was down I would have huge delays (sometimes minutes on events firing) and the interface would crawl. Vera was good when I was into a small setup and learning.

I had Vera previously before moving to homeseer and can tell you I had lots of issues with Vera when the internet went down. There is ways around it if you are the hacky type but I wasn't happy with the unit in general. I can say homeseer does work without Internet just fine and much more...

I have been following this for a while now and decided to put a Pi together to do this. I have it seeing the data from the thermostat, but can't get the serial part working (I suspect this is the fact I bought the cheap RS485 adapter and going to buy the better one).   I am having issues with...