Re: [mh] The Post Insteon World

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:23:24PM -0400, Spencer Ryan wrote:
> I think my biggest loss is going to be the KPL+FanLinc combo. I use them
> everywhere to add fan + light control to a single gang (bedrooms, mostly)
> and haven't found anything else like it.
> 
> Sure I could glue 3 different products together, but the Insteon stuff just
> worked(TM) and didnt require the PLM or Pi or anything to be running for
> basic operation. The wife factor of "Oh, you can't turn the fan on right
> now because the RPi is rebooting" is very, very low.

I hear you.  I have a few things that indeed require my PC to run
(because different protocol that insteon can't talk to directly), and
it's not ideal when my control server is crashed :)

Pragmatically I would also say to stock up used devices you can find on
ebay or whatnot.

Marc
-- 
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
 
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/  


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