29 Tuesday Jul 2014
Over on Twitter @appmyhome spotted a plant moisture sensor in their local Lowe’s store, but there’s no news on when these will be available. Has anyone else seen them?
28 Monday Jul 2014
Today the Apple Iris App was updated to version 1.9.10 and it looks like they freshened up the screen shots on the App Store.
Here’s the description under what’s new for Version 1.9.10:
*Garage Door Controller can provide peace of mind by knowing that your garage door is closed and secure. Now you can open and close your garage door with ease, even if you are not home!
*Yale® Real Living™ locks are now in the “Works with Iris” family.
*Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
*This release also adds functionality to Iris in preparation for future product launches.
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The most interesting part of this update was in Test Drive mode, where you can see how the new water heater feature works, and there’s also new battery status indicator.
On the Android front they seems to have a more interesting time where it was update twice for this month. Once on July 22 for version 1.9.10 and again on July 24 when users were reporting issues with controlling the thermostat.
I have to say that was a pretty fast turnaround time for a fix. Hopefully we’ll see more of these quick responses in the future.
22 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in Iris
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devices, Garage door controller, glass break sensor, hub update, Smart Meter, Smart Meter Link, water shut off valve, Yale smart doorlock, Yale touchscreen doorlock
Today a new update for the Iris hub has been released for version 4.02r04.
The what’s new page has been updated with the following PDF.
From the devices page you may see a few new items or removed label for “Coming soon”.
Interesting to note that Smart Meter Link & Smart Meter are listed with out the “Coming soon” label but it looks like the device is only available for the customers at Southern California Edison.
14 Monday Jul 2014
For those who didn’t find the the Garage Door Controller at their local store, you may now order them online at http://www.lowes.com/pd_589237-78427-GD-00Z-1_0_.
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Check out the official garage door controller video from Lowe’s and Myke500 video on his recent install.
07 Monday Jul 2014
Check out the forum and you’ll notice our user redmosquito and others had spotted and purchased the Iris garage door controllers. The item number for the garage door controller is #589237 and the correct price is actually $99.99 and not odd price $96.36 listed on the picture.
It also seems that this item number is not searchable at lowes.com so you can’t purchase it online now, but if you call your local store and ask for the item number you just might be lucky enough to find that it’s in stock already.
For further development on the garage door controller, check out the forum by clicking on the link below and hopefully we get to find out more about the installation experience and any magic rules that are associated to the device.
http://forum.livingwithiris.com/index.php?/topic/85-garage-door-controller-in-hand/
So I took a trip to my friendly neighborhood Lowes store last night to pick up some home improvement type things and as always took a quick peek at the Iris display to see if anything was new or different, plus I wanted to see the pet door in person. Much to my surprise I spotted the garage door controller that I have been scouring the Lowes.com website for daily. I snatched it up quickly as there was someone else looking at the display as well and this was the last one – this was one of my original wish list items so you can imagine my joy – the purchase price was $96.36 without tax. I did not have a chance to install the device yet but did unbox it when I got home and I can confirm it comes with its own tilt sensor so the other one floating around will not be needed.
More details to come after the install.
Thanks,
redmosquito
03 Thursday Jul 2014
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Yesterday’s video was take from an hour long webcast presentation for the Smart Energy Summit.
If you like to view the whole webcast, you may download the PDF where it also include the link for the full presentation.
http://www.parksassociates.com/bento/uploads/file/webcasts/2014/Parks-Lowes-Feb4-2014-UtilityDecisions-HEM.pdf
For those who aren’t interested in watch the hour long webcast, you might be interested in just viewing the following from the Q&A section. Continue reading
03 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Iris
Check out the video which I’ve taken just the beginning part of from a Feb 4, 2014 webcast called “Partner or Compete: Utility Decisions on Home Energy Management” where the Lowe’s VP & GM of Smart Home Kevin Meagher introduces Lowe’s Iris to the audience online.
There’s also more in the Q&A section of the Webcast which was interesting but I will have them up on my next post tomorrow.
