From: Gregg L. <gr...@li...> - 2008-02-13 15:38:17
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Neil Cherry wrote: > My current preference for Misterhouse is the Insteon PLM (Serial) FYI - The newly shipping PLMs have firmware 63. It appears that firmware 62 and above have resolved a number of issues that I had to work around in the mh libs. In particular, the NACK lockup issue (the PLM will respond w/ nothing but "15"s (serial PLM NACKs) until you physically unplug it and restart mh) appears to be resolved and I'm now able to disable the existing throttling logic to allow faster insteon control. I will likely soon auto-control the throttling logic based upon detected firmware rev level. That means that you won't have to do anything; but owners of new PLMs will definitely benefit. I suspect that there are some other "corner conditions" resolved by the new rev levels that are not being announced. If you were an "early adopter", you may have an earlier rev firmware PLM. SH replaced mine after I reported the problem described above (although the support tech claimed ignorance). Because the codebase does seem to be stable even with these (my old one was rev 52), then you may be fine w/o a swap as the performance increase is most noticeable in medium to large installations with significant use of insteon linking. Gregg |