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Monthly Archives: December 2013

IVEE Review

30 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by Hsi-Pei Liao in Iris, Simplify

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Home automation, ivee, review, voice control

I’ve mentioned in a past post that a new device called IVEE has plans to work with Iris. I’m glad to say one of my readers James Isenberg found that you can purchase IVEE from Staples.com and took the plunge and got one. He was also nice enough to write a whole review for it. So today I’m taking a break and letting him take control. 😉

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The Ivee Sleek is a clock that promises to take voice activation to the home.  It connects to wifi an as long as your home automation system has a web interface it should work.  It is a great concept as long as it works, so does it? I have had mine for several weeks now and it actually does a pretty good job.

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Lowe’s Iris Garage Door Controller

29 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by Hsi-Pei Liao in Iris, Simplify

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2GIG, CES, Garage Door, Garage door opener, Home automation, Iris, Linear, Lowe, Lowe's iris, Z-Wave

I went to visit myeyesoniris.com and found that there is news regarding the Iris Guarge Door Controller.

MyEyesOnIrisGarageDoorController

The news is released from CEpro.com where they explain that it’s made from a company called Linear and it will work with your existing garage door opener and it runs on Z-Wave. They also mention that it will be sold for $99 and will be shipped on March 2014.

That’s great but I couldn’t just stop here, and had to find out more about this Linear (linearcorp.com) company.

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My Iris service outage experience on Dec 21 and 22

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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broadband connection, cellular broadband service, Iris, Lowe's iris, outage, vuezone

I would have really like to keep people posted on the Iris outage last weekend but I was going through a tragedy in my neighborhood where a 8 year old boy was ran over by a truck. As some of you already know my 3 year old daughter was killed by a car just two months ago so this news particularly hit home for us. We’ve meet the family and as a community we setup a vigil.

I’m telling you this just to make sure you know that my Iris outage experience may be highly distorted considered what I was going through.

So what was my experience with the outage? ……

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Iris Hub Version 3.06r81

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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hub update, Iris

Iris had a new hub firmware update yesterday for version 3.06r81

Firmware 3.06r81

Like before I’ve created a page just to summarized what I’ve found from the user community.

Page: Iris Hub Version 3.06r81 (Released 12/17/13)

Please feel free to comment here or at the page above if you also experience the same thing or if you notice something new. Thank you.

The difference inside generation 1 and 2 range extenders.

17 Tuesday Dec 2013

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electrolytic capacitor, range extender, range extenders, Z-Wave

After receiving the 2nd generation range extenders, I’m still not sure what the improvement are. It’s been said that it was to enhance the Z-wave devices, but I can’t seem to make a clear distinction on the enhancement.

After a while I started to think maybe they sent me the wrong range extender by mistake and it’s still the first generation. So I had to void the warranty and open them up to take a look inside for any changes.

4 Range extners open

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Voice Control for Iris

04 Wednesday Dec 2013

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Android, Apps, iPhone, Iris, ivee, Lowe, Speaker recognition, Voice command device, voice control

Yes voice control will be coming to Iris soon!

My first tip from a reader Jeff who wrote to me and mentioned that support had told him it would be coming to the app soon.

I would have just relay this tip to everyone here but there wasn’t much proof until later I found that myeyesoniris had spotted a microphone on the google play store but it seems it’s not a active feature for the Android yet.

Iris app with mic

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Iris Support Hours

02 Monday Dec 2013

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Iris, Iris support, Iris Support Hours, Lowe's iris, Product Support, Technical support

Iris Support Page

As most of you may know I’ve been keeping track of users experience with their hub upgrade, so support has been on my mind lately. I thought to myself can customers call support if they decided to upgrade their hub during the late hours of the night? I remember seeing their hours but I can’t find it anywhere on the website. Till I found their email response to me when I filled out the web form under “Contact Us”.

So here it is for you late night people, or parents like me who can’t do anything till their kids goes to bed.

Lowe’s Iris Support Hours in Eastern Standard Time
Monday-Saturday 7am-1am
Sunday 10am-9pm

Enhancements / Issues Tracking

01 Sunday Dec 2013

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enhancements, issue tracking, Lowe's iris, release notes

Consider there is no release notes for each update for Iris. I like try to track enhancements and issues reported by users on this blog and from the Iris forum.

To start with I’m listing out the one’s associated to the latest release of the hub.

Iris Hub version 3.06r75 released on 11/28/13

You will also notice I have added a new section on the top of the page which can also lead you to the same location.

Enhancement-Issue-Tracking

 

Let me know what  you think of this and I hope this helps.

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