Revolv Acquired by Nest/Google

[Ben (Ben Edwards)]

@tpfenner

Would you mind creating or suggest best to me, the creation of a topic that can welcome all Revolv orphans and maybe give is a little information on how you differ, how you are similar, what the transition might be like for us? Especially addressing the fact that 99% of us probably have some sort of Insteon products.

This is a great idea. We have talked internally about how we could help the Revolv users have a soft landing. We know how much what happened can be frustrating. I’d like to take a little bit of time to create the thread in the next few days - in the meantime can you put forth some more of the things you liked and saw as gaps with Revolv?

And check this thread out while you wait:

Insteon Local Control!

GOOD NEWS!!! Thanks to the work the @pstuart did i was able to modify his code to allow local control of Insteon devices through Smartlinc!!! So now my Garage Door opener isn’t open to anyone outside the network. (assuming you change the internal port and don’t allow external access to that port) Here is the code for both an Insteon Switch and a I/O Linc (Garage Opener) Insteon Switch Code: /** * Insteon Switch (LOCAL) * * Copyright 2014 patrick@patrickstuart.com * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed …

I don’t know that adding the proprietary Insteon radio to a future hub is something we will do, but Thanks to community members like @pstuart and @tslagle13 there are always innovations where needed. Frankly, we were amazed when Revolv announced it has all those radios because of thproblems with interference we knew would be present. Wonder if they created some nice way of alternating which radios broadcast at any given time to avoid that.