jcrack_corn
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First, I have been communicating with Jayson about this, and he always responds quickly, however I feel I need to post about this.
My concerns with this 44.99 application is that I cant get it to work in any reasonable fashion. Now first, I have an robust ELK setup that controls my whole house. I have a mainlobby interface for it, and I also use RM and and the Elk web interface. ALL of those applications have no delays (ie, push a button for alight to come one and it does instantly, a thermostat or zone change is shown immediately, etc).
ekeypad plus simply does not work at this point. I have tried disabling my elk rules and shut down my mainlobby server so that the only thing comming trough the ethernet expander is ekeypad plus and still *barely* works.
What I can get to work:
I can get it to *show* thermostat information, but it doesnt always show all of my thermostats
I can get it to *sometimes* show all of my lights, but sometimes only 2 or 3, or half or whatever
I can get it to execute about 3 or 4 light commands before it quits working.
I can get the "keypad" to show the arm status and *sometimes* respond to key presses.
What I cant get to work:
THe dimmer sliders DONT work
After turning a light on (or as said above 3 or 4 commands total of turing a light or lights on or off) ALL light commands quit responding (this is a ROCK SOLID Elk-ISY setup that has ZERO issues w/ elk web interface/mainlobby/elkRM)
Thermostat delay is unacceptable and quit burdensome to use (click temp up and it takes sometimes 5-10 seconds to show the change, sometimes instant)
Keypad key presses are very spoty at best, I got it recognize a 4 digit code ONCE to arm my system...again after that ekeypad quit responding to all keypresses.
and of course it most just crashes back to the home screen. I find if i reboot the itouch i can get another 3-4 commands in before it crashes again.
My network is rock solid and I can load graphics intense webpages on safari with no issue.
My feeling is that the code is bad in ekeypad, it is bogging the itouch down or doing something that is more complex than it should be (sending ascii strings to the elk!)....
What or other peoples experiences with this software? I am trying to give Jayson time, but I am approaching the point where I ask for my money back, i consider this alpha and *maybe* beta level software. (unless others show that my experience is unique!).
EDIT: If this was a 9.99 application i would be satisfied with its level of function, this is in general because I feel something i paid almost 50 dollars for and something priced MUCH higher than typical applications should function FLAWLESSLY out of the box.
My concerns with this 44.99 application is that I cant get it to work in any reasonable fashion. Now first, I have an robust ELK setup that controls my whole house. I have a mainlobby interface for it, and I also use RM and and the Elk web interface. ALL of those applications have no delays (ie, push a button for alight to come one and it does instantly, a thermostat or zone change is shown immediately, etc).
ekeypad plus simply does not work at this point. I have tried disabling my elk rules and shut down my mainlobby server so that the only thing comming trough the ethernet expander is ekeypad plus and still *barely* works.
What I can get to work:
I can get it to *show* thermostat information, but it doesnt always show all of my thermostats
I can get it to *sometimes* show all of my lights, but sometimes only 2 or 3, or half or whatever
I can get it to execute about 3 or 4 light commands before it quits working.
I can get the "keypad" to show the arm status and *sometimes* respond to key presses.
What I cant get to work:
THe dimmer sliders DONT work
After turning a light on (or as said above 3 or 4 commands total of turing a light or lights on or off) ALL light commands quit responding (this is a ROCK SOLID Elk-ISY setup that has ZERO issues w/ elk web interface/mainlobby/elkRM)
Thermostat delay is unacceptable and quit burdensome to use (click temp up and it takes sometimes 5-10 seconds to show the change, sometimes instant)
Keypad key presses are very spoty at best, I got it recognize a 4 digit code ONCE to arm my system...again after that ekeypad quit responding to all keypresses.
and of course it most just crashes back to the home screen. I find if i reboot the itouch i can get another 3-4 commands in before it crashes again.
My network is rock solid and I can load graphics intense webpages on safari with no issue.
My feeling is that the code is bad in ekeypad, it is bogging the itouch down or doing something that is more complex than it should be (sending ascii strings to the elk!)....
What or other peoples experiences with this software? I am trying to give Jayson time, but I am approaching the point where I ask for my money back, i consider this alpha and *maybe* beta level software. (unless others show that my experience is unique!).
EDIT: If this was a 9.99 application i would be satisfied with its level of function, this is in general because I feel something i paid almost 50 dollars for and something priced MUCH higher than typical applications should function FLAWLESSLY out of the box.
