hockeypuck
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Just to wrap this up, I have a co-worker who runs Smart Things so we have had some back and forth. It appears that ST does have a few things to work out with regards "system stability" during and after an internet outage. Just as a quick example, he has a vacation home 5 hours away from his house. They lost internet, and he has to manually reset ST after an outage before it will start to report back to him. Maybe there is a work around he does not know about and ST is always bringing on more capabilities. Not trying to bad mouth any technology..HomeSeer seemed like a better fit for my penchant for research and diy.
Quick note.. our home was built in the 60's.. I have been having fun dealing with the lack of neutrals in some of the three ways. Three wire must have been really expensive then.. why anyone would run a three wire through a ceiling light is mind numbing. Fortunately I have a controller going at the opposite end of most of these three ways that have no neutral. Need to take the light fixture down.. pass the line and neutral to the box that will be housing the controller and problem solved.
Quick note.. our home was built in the 60's.. I have been having fun dealing with the lack of neutrals in some of the three ways. Three wire must have been really expensive then.. why anyone would run a three wire through a ceiling light is mind numbing. Fortunately I have a controller going at the opposite end of most of these three ways that have no neutral. Need to take the light fixture down.. pass the line and neutral to the box that will be housing the controller and problem solved.