Getting / Setting Insteon information from the Venstar T1700 thermostat

We’ll after receiving back some of my hard earned money thru 2008. I shelved out the $159 for the Insteon T1700 thermostat. It can be found here. The device is quite small, which is fine and thinner that my orginary Honeywell one which was a real plus.  To install was also very simple. And technical [...]

New Pictures of Client ScreenShots

As promised here are some new screen shots of the Client.  Its totally revamped and I think in a cleaner format.  Its a combination of VB2008 / Flash Action Script 2.0 Sample Screens – Jan 2009 Comments and feedback is appreciated!

More ways to speak to your Insteon Devices

Like many programs there is always more ways to do one thing. Here is another way I found to talk to my PLC what I’ve been able to get is that i’m sending the direct HEX (PLM) commands to the PLC. Which in turn makes  the processing faster. In my environment it helped a little [...]

2009 Update / Goals for this year

Well 2009 is here, hope it brings you all good things.  This years proves to be exiting for me since i’m now fine tuning the system.  What I mean by that is that now all switches are Insteon and I can get to nitty gritty to getting the little details done. Tomorrow (Fingers crossed) the [...]

My Christmas Decorations 2008

Here is my Christmas setup for 2008. No video yet but y I think you’ll be able to get the picture of what you can do with the LampLincs.  My setup as of today consist of mainly blue and white. I have a indoor tree and two outdoors.  Using 6 LampLincs and groups I can [...]

New SmartHome IO Linc announced

Good news, Smarthome and recent and finally put out the I/O Linc! (Or at least set for 12/22/8) SmartHome Link In simple terms this will be able to replace my current X10 solutions for the Garage which consist of the X10 Flash and X10 Universal controllers.  For what i’ve read you can ‘query’ the device [...]

Installing a Insteon Inline Linc Relay with a ceiling Fan and lamp

Disclaimer, I’m not an electrician, and mainly just showing what I did, if you chose to do this you do this at your own risk, if you feel uncomfortable please have a professional install this! Ok, here is my scenario and hopefully this can help you as well.  I have a ceiling fan with a [...]

The “Configuration” database

As previously mentioned my main program depends 100% off a SQL database, below is a dump of my “Configuration” database, that holds all the system settings. Many are loaded into memory the first time, or when I run PollDevices query this way the information is updated when needed.  I know its a lot of information [...]

No more Smarthome Auctions?

Yep, its over, sadly Smart-home has decided to close their auction site?.  They claim they weren’t giving the correct buying experience. I guess it was that they noticed they could be making more $$ for the devices via other outlets, or maybe resellers not being able to compete? Many of their auctions started at $14. [...]

Flash:Showing the ‘time’ in flash continuously.

Last week I was working on automating the house’s coffee machine.  And a real neat feature I saw around was the ability to display updated content in flash. In bare bones, simple copy and paste, below is the the code I used to update the clock each second. Basically open a scene of one frame [...]