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Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:47 pm
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peszko
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I have run Insteon for over 8 years, some of it with Homeseer and isy and most with Indigo. I have never been able to get Insteon to work reliably in both of my houses. I have sporadic all on all off events, spurious insteon commands and colisions. I have constant random delays especially with scenes. The keypad links are especially problematic, both with how they are implemented and with spurious insteon signals. I'v been able to stabilize it somewhat, getting it to about 95% reliability. This was done by installing numerous filters, removing keypadlinks and replacing switch and motion modules. Just as I though I have everything running a lot better, I got an all on insteon glich that turned most of my lights on, and opened my garage in the middle of the night during -15 freeze outside. Not fun. I could probably live with the delays, but not with spurious commands. I can not have my system open doors, triggering alarms turn on and off my pool pumps, heaters and sauna. Yes, those spurious events now happen once or twice a year, but this is too much for me.
I do believe that its insteon problem not Indigo, as the spurious signals were not even registered by indigo. It is possible that some of the problem is related to the age of the house and noise on the line, but... The end result is that 95% reliability is not enough when the system controls so much. So, I'm now moving to z-wave. I hope that I will be able to have higher reliability. Especially no spurious commands. I can live with unreachable modules once in a while, or signal delays as long as the system knows about it, but not spurious commands.
Just for background, I am an electrical engineer and software developer, so not a neophyte in terms of technology. I have 157 modules of different type, plus alarm integration, hvac, pool, spa controlls, Hikvision NVR with 16 camers, and phone . Everything integrated through Indigo on a dedicated mac mini on separate subnet.
Just my 2cents.
P.S. I do like Indigo, and am planning on using it with z-wave.