Re: [mh] Questions for X10/Voice control

Gianni

I had a similar problem to you and have now moved away from X10.

I am now mostly using Sonoff  switches (https://sonoff.tech/products/) 
which I have  flashed with Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) and 
the latest Misterhouse TASMOTA_HTTP_SWITCH interface. This works very 
well, especially as the modules both have a web interface  and handle 
MQTT heartbeats, so its easy to detect if one has gone bad.

The Misterhouse Alexa interface has been stable for quite a while now 
and works well for both direct switching of a Misterhouse device as well 
as launching a perl routine.  Not sure about the Misterhouse port as I 
moved to a different port number many years ago.

For sensors I've moved over to a combination of Wemos D1 Mini flashed 
with Tasmota and using the Misterhouse MQTT interface and Sonoff Zigbee 
motion and temperature sensors communicating with Misterhouse via the 
Sonoff Zigbee Bridge 
(https://sonoff.tech/product/smart-home-security/zbbridge/) again 
flashed with Tasmota and using MQTT.

The upshot of all this is that I now have a much more reliable system 
where it can self check and inform me if any sensor or switch is not 
working properly (you even get battery level indications for the Zigbee 
sensors)

Hope this helps

Giles

On 25/02/2022 07:13, Gianni Veloce via misterhouse-users wrote:
> Hello MH Community
> I have a couple of questions to help me decide my way forward with MH 
> and you may have the experience to answer
> 1.I am using my old X10 serial PLM and have in my closer an Insteon 
> PLM (2242) bought some years ago as a backup. Is it possible to have 
> them work together for  managing lights/appliances (x10 and Insteon)? 
> Or only only one PLM can be supported by MH?
> 2. Is perhaps also INSTEON already an old (dead?) technology and 
> should go to newer alternatives? In there case my X10 devices will go 
> to trash?Proposals?
> 3.I see there are newer MH modules for Alexa /Google Home integration. 
> Do they work well with MH? Do they require MH webserver port change 
> from 8080 to 80 as in this case they will conflict with my Asterisk 
> and Zoneminder running on the same box (Rpi 4). Any other tips/hints 
> on this?
>
> TIA
> GV
>
>
>
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