From: Greg S. <sa...@ir...> - 2009-11-30 18:06:41
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So watching you guys battle with Insteon makes me wonder how much better off we are then using X-10. Seems like you have different issues and the reliability isn't that much better. So is all this trouble with Insteon worth it? Thanks, Greg On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:23:07AM -0800, George Farris wrote: >>> However I do have some wireless speakers in the 900Mhz range. I wonder if >>> they could conflict with insteon RF. Very possible, I'll have to check that >>> out. >> >> It's possible Marc, I'm an Amateur Radio operator and I have seen all >> many of weird stuff in my 30 years of playing with RF. If they have >> strong harmonics of the original frequency you may get interference. > > I believe you. I'm just wondering if insteon would really do RF without any > kind of error checking. I'm sure they must have something when getting data > over such a known unreliable medium. > > Back to my insteon network, it looks like moving my PLM and APs doesn't > really help. My unreliable legs are the ones with light switches and I think > it's simply because I have over 50 dimmable CFLs in my house and they > introduce some amount of noise on those power legs. > I doubt there is a fix for that besides hot wiring APs into my light > switches, and even then I'm not certain it would help. > > By the way, this is how I determine the "health" of my power legs: > */15 * * * * merlin tail -n 500 ~mhr/data/logs/print.log | grep EXPIRED | Mail -e -s "mh expired" my...@em...d > */15 * * * * merlin tail -n 500 ~mhr/data/logs/print.log | grep 'hops left: [10]' | Mail -e -s "low hops" my...@em...d > */15 * * * * merlin tail -n 500 ~mhr/data/logs/print.log | grep 'queue timer on' | Mail -e -s "command delayed/dropped" my...@em...d > 1,16,31,46 * * * * merlin tail -n 100 ~mhr/data/logs/print.log | grep -E ':(00|15|30|45):.*newly set to.*set by \$PLM' | Mail -e -s "lost state fixed?" my...@em...d > > It's far from fancy or pretty but it works to let me know when things > happens that aren't quite right (my system has a full rescan/query of all my devices > every 15mn). > > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ |