Does USB work or doesn't it?
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:08 am
Guys, I love you and appreciate how hard you work. But I've spent months not upgrading to 7 (and not upgrading my only mac from a now very old version of MacOS) because the only way I can get information is to spend my free time sifting through this forum. I wanted to install a HomeBridge plugin that requires Indigo 7, and I did a quick search a few months ago to see if there was anything I needed to be afraid of. The first thing I came across is this thread in Announcements:
High Sierra - our yearly warning [UPDATED WITH WARNING INFO]
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19100
It sounds like Apple broke the fragile USB Insteon stuff? The last message in that thread was in January. It's June now. I'm left to assume that it's still screwed up? I spent an hour just now trying to figure that out. I found page 4 of some other thread that links to a "workaround" that was posted one day after the last post in the announcements thread:
http://www.indigodomo.com/blog/2018/01/ ... orkaround/
So, does this mean the workaround solves the problem in the announcements thread? Is the workaround still necessary in 10.13.4? 10.13.5? That stale announcement thread is certainly keeping me from upgrading.
How many systems are affected by this USB nonsense?
When will Insteon ever move to a more reliable (or at least widely supported) USB chipset? Maybe the one that's in my ancient printer or any of my other myriad USB devices that have never had a connectivity problem and never been destroyed by a power failure?
How can I know when it's safe to upgrade without spending an hour every few weeks mining forum threads?
Thank you.
High Sierra - our yearly warning [UPDATED WITH WARNING INFO]
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19100
It sounds like Apple broke the fragile USB Insteon stuff? The last message in that thread was in January. It's June now. I'm left to assume that it's still screwed up? I spent an hour just now trying to figure that out. I found page 4 of some other thread that links to a "workaround" that was posted one day after the last post in the announcements thread:
http://www.indigodomo.com/blog/2018/01/ ... orkaround/
So, does this mean the workaround solves the problem in the announcements thread? Is the workaround still necessary in 10.13.4? 10.13.5? That stale announcement thread is certainly keeping me from upgrading.
How many systems are affected by this USB nonsense?
When will Insteon ever move to a more reliable (or at least widely supported) USB chipset? Maybe the one that's in my ancient printer or any of my other myriad USB devices that have never had a connectivity problem and never been destroyed by a power failure?
How can I know when it's safe to upgrade without spending an hour every few weeks mining forum threads?
Thank you.