Hey everyone,
Got a weird one for you - so here's my situation. I have a gate that is ~ 350' from my house. At the gate I have an I/O linc which works..... maybe 40% of the time. Detecting NO, sending a command to open the gate. It's been frustrating to say the least. I've tried everything I can to "improve" this situation and have come up short. I just think the distance is too great.
Now after realizing I had cat5e running out to the gate, I have been doing some testing and if I keep the speed of that line at 10Mbit I can get a solid connection to the gate. This unfortunately doesn't help me with my I/O linc as it doesn't have an ethernet port on it to remotely control it.
So that made me wonder - is there any way I can use an Insteon 2245-222 Central Controller Hub on the gate side to have it help "control" the gate when signals are attempting to be sent to the I/O linc? I see you can pick these hubs up pretty cheaply now. If not, is there some other way that I haven't thought of that might utilize an ethernet port to help me get control over that I/O linc out there? I'd hate to have to resort to using something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005J7MPMK/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A34JWT04R7KMFW
...to control the gate, since the I/O Linc works so well (in my garage for example)
Thanks in advance.