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 [...]

My first KeypadLinc Setup and Functions

So after weeks of playing,printing, and busting buttons  I think what I ended up is with some acceptable buttons, here are the layout of my first KeyPad Linc These were done using a InkJet, I still need to try using a Color Laser to see.  Since I got this one off of ebay it was [...]

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!

Another way of polling Insteon Devices via VB

Insteon’s SDM COM object is great for having a preset commands at your disposal but ive ran into issues where I dont want the program to wait for the ACK.  (In this case it will pause for the response), this can be a problem in very large environment, especially if your poll all devices at [...]

How to force outlook to check for email (pop3/imap etc) via vb code

For email coming in and out, I use MS outlook, which makes interfacing with VB very easy.  But if you have configured the outlook client not using exchange, you know that you must specify the time in minutes it will poll to check for email.  Lets say you want to force it to check for [...]

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 [...]