Changing the Default On level for Insteon devices

Certain Insteon lamp modules, allow you to set the Default “On” level.  This way, when you turn on the device, it turns on to the brightness (eg 50%) that you have set. The most obvious benefit, is that you could set a task at 10 pm, to set the Bathroom & bedroom lights to turn […]

Congratulations to Perceptive Automation! (Indigo Touch 1.7 release)

Congratulations to Perceptive Automation on the Indigo Touch 1.7 release. From the Release Notes: We are excited to announce that Indigo Touch 1.7 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. New features include: Support for iOS 4 multitasking — commands will finish executing and images will continue to load even […]

Automatic Sprinkler System Scheduling Part 1

What is the best practices in Water Sprinkler’s, and scheduling their watering patterns? What is a Can test? or a Stick test? ‘Can test’ is kind of an industry standard way of measuring the amount of water being applied to an area of lawn for a given amount of time [hourly water rate]. It involves […]

Indigo 4.1.15 Released

Indigo v4.1.15 is now available for download.In addition to the major 4.0 improvements and 4.1 features, this update includes: Improved filtering of duplicate messages from the RemoteLinc. Improved Prism Reflector tunnel startup time.

Household hints – Cleaner dishes

Here’s a hint for anyone that has a dishwasher, put White Distilled Vingear in the liquid dispenser, in addition to any dish washer powder that you use…  It will help sanitize and seems to work as good as some of the off the shelf products that we have tried.