johnnynine
Active Member
Is anyone else having the "lack of response on a quick tap" issue with Insteon?
I originally posted my findings on techmall at the following url on 4/13/2006:
http://www.techmall.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=142
A smarthome representative had the following response:
I am wondering how many other people are having this problem?
Basically what happens is that my wife and I press and release the insteon switch paddles quick enough that they do no respond. It happens with ALL of my insteon Switchlinc switches - dimmers and timer switch. This happens very often and it drives us crazy when walking into a room after tapping the switch and hearing the underlying click of the microswitch but the light didn't come on and having walk back and do it again.
As for WAF I was told the insteon problem was unacceptable and there was concern that not only would the switches not work for us but we would have to train house guests to actually press and hold the switch instead of just tapping like we do. So the use of Insteon has been vetod... unless they correct this problem and I get approval.
I'm disappointed that I haven't had an answer and more importantly there hasn't been a product change as Insteon is fairly affordable compared to most other solutions.
It looks like I will be looking into ZWave after all.
I originally posted my findings on techmall at the following url on 4/13/2006:
http://www.techmall.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=142
A smarthome representative had the following response:
However I haven't had a final response from them yet.The lack of response on a "very quick tap" was by design to prevent switches from falsing on or off. Since researching, I have read several requests for this in the past 2 weeks I have made an internal request to change the feature moving forward in the next revs to the product.
I am wondering how many other people are having this problem?
Basically what happens is that my wife and I press and release the insteon switch paddles quick enough that they do no respond. It happens with ALL of my insteon Switchlinc switches - dimmers and timer switch. This happens very often and it drives us crazy when walking into a room after tapping the switch and hearing the underlying click of the microswitch but the light didn't come on and having walk back and do it again.
As for WAF I was told the insteon problem was unacceptable and there was concern that not only would the switches not work for us but we would have to train house guests to actually press and hold the switch instead of just tapping like we do. So the use of Insteon has been vetod... unless they correct this problem and I get approval.
I'm disappointed that I haven't had an answer and more importantly there hasn't been a product change as Insteon is fairly affordable compared to most other solutions.
It looks like I will be looking into ZWave after all.