Last year I was still using HS2 on a Thinkpad PC and all X10 modules to control many lights around the house. I went away for a month and 3 days into my trip there was a power failure that drained the UPS and when power was restored the UPS did not turn on so all lights were stuck on in night mode for the remainder of my trip.
Fast forward to now. I replaced all but a few X10 with 20 Insteon modules and a couple Z-Wave light modules, and now use a HomeSeer HomeTroller ZeeS2 controller with HS3 and Mark’s Insteon plugin. I got rid of the UPS. I’m on another month long trip and 18 days away from home the controller is offline and all lights are stuck on in night mode!! How reliable is that Zee controller? In my experience it is totally unreliable. So much so that when I get back I am going to put the Zee and the PLM on a TP-Link HS110 wifi controlled power outlet so I can remotely power down/up the whole shebang the next time this happens.
I have also observed since I bought the Zee that the Z-Wave plugin just quit working two different times for no reason that I could see. I had to unplug and plug in the unit to restart ZW.
Can anyone else tell me about the reliability of the Zee S2?
I recall some kind of timed restart line in the HS3 setup that reboots the unit every so often. Is that worth using?
EDIT: this was the HSSentry checkbox in Setup. It only works on PC versions, not on the ZeeS2.
Not impressed with the Zee S2 as a replacement for the PC so far.
Fast forward to now. I replaced all but a few X10 with 20 Insteon modules and a couple Z-Wave light modules, and now use a HomeSeer HomeTroller ZeeS2 controller with HS3 and Mark’s Insteon plugin. I got rid of the UPS. I’m on another month long trip and 18 days away from home the controller is offline and all lights are stuck on in night mode!! How reliable is that Zee controller? In my experience it is totally unreliable. So much so that when I get back I am going to put the Zee and the PLM on a TP-Link HS110 wifi controlled power outlet so I can remotely power down/up the whole shebang the next time this happens.
I have also observed since I bought the Zee that the Z-Wave plugin just quit working two different times for no reason that I could see. I had to unplug and plug in the unit to restart ZW.
Can anyone else tell me about the reliability of the Zee S2?
I recall some kind of timed restart line in the HS3 setup that reboots the unit every so often. Is that worth using?
EDIT: this was the HSSentry checkbox in Setup. It only works on PC versions, not on the ZeeS2.
Not impressed with the Zee S2 as a replacement for the PC so far.
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