Re: [mh] Living with Insteon

[Tom M. <tma...@sa...>]

I had to use black electrical tape on my Insteon switches too.  They lit up
the whole room at night! 

My solution for keypads was to use white on black labels instead of black on
white.  That cut down the brightness acceptably.  I'm hoping the black
version of the keypad will be generally more opaque than the white one, but
I don't have one yet to see.

I'm excited to hear there may be a way to turn off the backlight.  What I
found in the user manual was only a way to switch the backlight from high to
low intensity, but not to turn it off.  Ideally, I would have the switch go
to "sleep" -- turn all LEDs at a certain time, unless a button was pressed.
That way one could get some decent darkness in the house. [Lack of proper
darkness at night is correlated to breast cancer in some studies.]

-tom m.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Liming [mailto:gr...@li...] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:43 AM
To: The main list for the MisterHouse home automation program
Subject: Re: [mh] Living with Insteon

Dave Stenhouse wrote:
> Hey Insteon users- I'm considering the purchase of a KeypadLinc with 
> enclosure to put in the bedrom, but I am very leery of this due to what 
> I see on Smart Home's forum about those #&%! LEDs that are brighter than 
> day.  Not just the backlights for the various scene buttons, but every 
> flippin' Insteon device has the linking LED, right?  I covered all my 
> plug-in modules with black vinyl tape. and it doesn't really take care 
> of the problem well, and obviously that's not a good solution for 
> something I have to look at from time to time.
> So what do those of you that have lots of Insteon gear do about these 
> LEDs?  How effective is whatever you do? 

Personally, the lights have never bothered me.  After reviewing the 
command tables doc, it appears that there is an ability to remotely set 
the backlighting (on/off) and "linking" LED (on/off) via operating 
flags.  I could investigate adding support; but, it won't make the 105 
branch cut-off (today or tomorrow).  From memory, it seems like some of 
this is also manually setable via the device; but, I don't recall specifics.

Gregg


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