Reading the Status of the Insteon I/O Linc Garage door contact

Lets say your like me and you wish to check the status of the contact on your garage.    But notice that regular polls only return the device itself not the status of the contact. For example maybe at a given time you want to make sure the contact is closed.  Here is how I’m going [...]

Setting up Insteon groups via SDM or ’soft linking’ commands

If your looking to create groups using the simplehome.net utility click on the link below. Setting up Insteon groups via software or ’soft linking’ using Simplehome.nets utility Lets say you want to be able to link and create groups without having to use the Simplehome.net utility, this is how its done. Lets assume with the previous [...]

Reading data from a Insteon Controlinc doing custom functions PC programming

One of the best devices that I like which is included with the Starter kit is the ControlLinc.  This little device contains 5 set of buttons which dim,brighten and do other wonder things.  But after a while I wanted to have one button to run my ‘end of day’ scripts.   So after poking around I [...]

Setting up Insteon groups via software or ‘soft linking’ using Simplehome.nets utility

Insteon is great and is extremely fast when turning on / off devices, but lets say you want to turn on 10 lights all at the same time? This is what they call groups. Groups allow you to store in each individual device settings such as turn on, ramp rate commands, for a specific group [...]