upstatemike
Senior Member
I had a bad Insteon day yesterday and have decided to call it quits and go back to X-10.
First thing that happened was I replaced a KeypadLinc with a newer one that doesn't have the LED flicker. The KeypadLinc controls a bunch of lamps in my office which are also controlled from a ControLinc on my desk. Got everthing linked properly and made sure the KepadLinc LEDs stayed in sync when I turned the lamps on and off from the ControLinc. All worked fine EXCEPT when I used ALL ON or ALL OFF from the ControLinc. When I did that, only the large buttons on the KeypadLinc did what they were supposed to do... the small buttons ignored the command and stayed on or off putting them out of sync with the lamps they control. I did factory resets on the ControLinc and the KeypadLinc and set it all up again and still had the same problem. I called tech support yesterday and again today, and they never got back to me with a solution.
The bottom line is that the LEDs on a KeypadLinc MUST stay in sync with the associated load, PERIOD. It doesn't matter if the load is operated locally, from the KeypadLinc, from a ControLinc, or whatever, the LEDs must stay in sync or the product is useless.
The second thing that happened was that we had a storm that caused a brief power flicker. For some reason this caused half the Insteon devices in the house to turn themselves on! The main reason I moved away from X-10 was that the switches turned themselves on from line noise and Insteon was not supposed to have that problem because of the more complex protocol. If Insteon is going to give me the same grief then I might as well stick with X-10!
The third thing that happened was that I saw a posting from the guy who is making RoZetta saying he has run into problems and the product is going to take a couple more months at least. This means no Insteon control from Stargate this summer, and maybe not ever.
Faced with a choice of dragging out this transition, potentially for years, or working through the known X-10 problems with products like the XTB and getting on with my life, I think I will choose the latter.
First thing that happened was I replaced a KeypadLinc with a newer one that doesn't have the LED flicker. The KeypadLinc controls a bunch of lamps in my office which are also controlled from a ControLinc on my desk. Got everthing linked properly and made sure the KepadLinc LEDs stayed in sync when I turned the lamps on and off from the ControLinc. All worked fine EXCEPT when I used ALL ON or ALL OFF from the ControLinc. When I did that, only the large buttons on the KeypadLinc did what they were supposed to do... the small buttons ignored the command and stayed on or off putting them out of sync with the lamps they control. I did factory resets on the ControLinc and the KeypadLinc and set it all up again and still had the same problem. I called tech support yesterday and again today, and they never got back to me with a solution.
The bottom line is that the LEDs on a KeypadLinc MUST stay in sync with the associated load, PERIOD. It doesn't matter if the load is operated locally, from the KeypadLinc, from a ControLinc, or whatever, the LEDs must stay in sync or the product is useless.
The second thing that happened was that we had a storm that caused a brief power flicker. For some reason this caused half the Insteon devices in the house to turn themselves on! The main reason I moved away from X-10 was that the switches turned themselves on from line noise and Insteon was not supposed to have that problem because of the more complex protocol. If Insteon is going to give me the same grief then I might as well stick with X-10!
The third thing that happened was that I saw a posting from the guy who is making RoZetta saying he has run into problems and the product is going to take a couple more months at least. This means no Insteon control from Stargate this summer, and maybe not ever.
Faced with a choice of dragging out this transition, potentially for years, or working through the known X-10 problems with products like the XTB and getting on with my life, I think I will choose the latter.