An official beta of the HomeSeer Insteon basic plug-in should be available later on today.
This plug-in enables the following functionality when coupled with HomeSeer 2 and the SmartHome PowerLinc V2 interface:
1) Confirmed control of Insteon lighting modules. On/Off and direct dim support is complete. If the lighting module does not respond to the command the status of the HomeSeer device will be set to Unknown.
2) X10 transmission and reception. All X10 house and device codes can be sent and received.
3) Polling of Insteon modules. The Plug-in supports the HomeSeer polling interface so that the current status of a module can be determined. Please note that at this time HomeSeer supports scheduled polling only on Z-Wave devices.
What is *not* yet present:
1) Awareness of commands sent by other controllers to a lighting module. There will be a separate thread about this limitation.
2) The ability to link devices through software. Again we will need a separate thread on this.
3) Due to a current limitation in the SmartHome SDM interface extended X10 and preset dim commands are not yet supported. This should be resolved shortly.
The plug-in relies on the SmartHome Device Manager (or SDM). Because of the continuously changing nature of the Insteon protocol and PowerLinc firmware the SDM is used as the software interface to the PowerLinc controller. This allows the SDM to be updated with firmware changes instead of having to update the plug-in all the time.
Jon
This plug-in enables the following functionality when coupled with HomeSeer 2 and the SmartHome PowerLinc V2 interface:
1) Confirmed control of Insteon lighting modules. On/Off and direct dim support is complete. If the lighting module does not respond to the command the status of the HomeSeer device will be set to Unknown.
2) X10 transmission and reception. All X10 house and device codes can be sent and received.
3) Polling of Insteon modules. The Plug-in supports the HomeSeer polling interface so that the current status of a module can be determined. Please note that at this time HomeSeer supports scheduled polling only on Z-Wave devices.
What is *not* yet present:
1) Awareness of commands sent by other controllers to a lighting module. There will be a separate thread about this limitation.
2) The ability to link devices through software. Again we will need a separate thread on this.
3) Due to a current limitation in the SmartHome SDM interface extended X10 and preset dim commands are not yet supported. This should be resolved shortly.
The plug-in relies on the SmartHome Device Manager (or SDM). Because of the continuously changing nature of the Insteon protocol and PowerLinc firmware the SDM is used as the software interface to the PowerLinc controller. This allows the SDM to be updated with firmware changes instead of having to update the plug-in all the time.
Jon
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