Insteon project 2010 – Show Manager V.99 Part 1

So I have been working hard over the last few month trying to consolidate many pieces of what I hope to be the decorations master piece for 2010. Here is how it started.  For 2009 I had already created a simple programs that would randomly play small 5-10 second sequences such as fading on / [...]

Utility:Convert X10 to Insteon Program with a PLC

Hi, so I know ive been disconnected for a while.  But always trying to provide some goodies. One of the cool things of the PLC is that if you know serial commands you can actually talk to it bypassing the SDM software.  My reason being that X10 motion sensors are cheeper than the Insteon and [...]

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 [...]

Software: Get Insteon / Talking to your PC – Part 2

Part 2. As requested, here are some live examples,  this is of course using the SDM library in VB 2005, the same works for VB6. Since my blog is really about my home project, a VERY GOOD site,  which is the one I used to start which has lots of specs and examples in VB6 [...]