Originally posted by bpwwer
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However, I should point out that at the time I downloaded 2.7.15, it was (and still is, I believe), the latest "officially supported" release of the UD firmware (it's the version available for automatic update from within the ISY management console - hard to get more "official" than that). The versions you say you're testing against are Release Candidates, and (quite legitimately) not supported by Universal Devices. The software company I work for is very careful about spelling out what we support, and what we don't - beta and RC versions of Microsoft software have never been supported.
I realize you're a small operation, and things in this community tend to be fairly informal, but finding that your latest version was incompatible with UD's supported, release version (with no warning in what passes for release notes) was a little disturbing.
Please don't take this as a huge negative - I really appreciate what you're doing here. I wrote my own plugin for the Insteon stuff in the early days, and used it until your plugin became available (and probably pushed the HomeSeer guys into pushing their contractor to release his plugin prematurely, by offering to share it), so I have some feeling for how tricky this stuff is. Just be aware that a lot of people are never going to upgrade the ISY firmware that came in the box, or will only upgrade to the supported versions offered in the management console. At the very least, you should verify that your releases work against UD's supported version, and if not, prominently mention that in your release notes. No rest for the weary software developer
- Dennis
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