Chris J. Karr, May 14th, 2008
I’ve been having increasing issues and less reliability with Shion lately and wanted to post an entry for any users experiencing similar problems. At the moment, there is a significant delay in communicating from the PowerLinc USB to other devices on the network.
The problem appears to be one within the application. I am working to address the issue as I find time to do so. My apologies for the problems and I hope to have a fix out in the next couple of weeks.
Update: It seems that the major problem was my home powerline network. For some reason, the signals weren’t being reliably transmitted. I’m picking up some boosters/repeaters and will report back with how much that helped out.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Thanks for the heads up. I have just acquired a Powerlinc USB V2 and a dimmer to test shion out. I haven’t tested or installed anything yet but I’ll report back if I have any problems. Thanks for all your work.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Hi,
I’m experiencing the delay and slight unreliability that you explained. I have the USB powerlinc plugged to an outlet pretty close to my bathroom light dimmer, and it takes several seconds for the commands to be carried through from Shion on my Macbook Pro to the light swtich. My apartment building here is pretty old but the bathroom circuits should have been redone at most 4 years ago. Don’t know if the land lord did an amazing job, but in anycase i seem to be experiencing the problem as well. Going to be moving to a house in 3 months that was built in 2002, so i’m expecting to have at least some good wiring over there.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Update: sometimes it works faster that other times… but i also see that Shion doesn’t always update the dim level # correctly. If you’d like to email me to discuss more testing you are more than welcome to.