Teken wrote:If you scanned older threads many of the things you indicated were listed in the new feature requests for the product. Like you I also determined that using a 3rd party 1 wire module was required and thus went with Autelis because it offered the tight integration I needed for my entire home automation system.
Yes, that's what I was referring to, all the older requests. Wondering what the status on those is, if any. Most particularly increasing the number of temp sensors. Any progress on that front Brultech?
And, IF it was implemented, would it require changes to the hardware, or could it be pushed out in firmware alone?
If it was in the pipeline as a firmware update that would encourage me to buy a GEMS sooner rather than later. (I compared carefully with a TEDPro/5000 -- the accuracy on the TED series seems to be a bad joke, they offer only +/- 7% on average, "5% with calibration," and a minimum wattage reading (on their smallest coil) of 60 watts!)
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A bit off-topic:
Re: Home automation (HA) -- I've chosen to go with OpenHAB for home automation, due to zero software cost and maximum flexibility / hackability. I've read about well-developed OpenHAB interfaces / hooks for the GEMS, will post here if /when I get a GEMS working w/ OpenHAB.)
I particularly like OpenHAB because it is hardware-agnostic, you can pick & choose what works best for you -- CPU speed vs. power& heat trade offs, storage, RAM, types & numbers of ports, etc. And, being hardware agnostic it is easier to troubleshoot in public-forum setting because the bulk of the troubleshooting is *in the public code repository,* not in proprietary firmware.
I strongly considered MiCasaVerde early on but after reading through their forums I realized it was a total nightmare because everything depends on the opaque & apparently poorly-maintained MCV firmware.