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Asked: 2026-05-21T15:43:08+00:00

I’m a C# developer looking to get into home automation as a hobby. I

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I’m a C# developer looking to get into home automation as a hobby. I have done a little research, but was wondering if anyone knows of a good .NET library that supports Insteon hardware. I’d rather use Insteon than X10 due to reliability issues.

My ultimate objective at this point is to have a simple home automation server (maybe lights and climate control) with a secure ASP.NET web application interface. I’m more interested in actually building it and learning about it rather than finding an existing solution.

Thanks for any suggestions or comments.

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Thanks for the help, everyone.

Does anyone have experience with Z-wave technology? Seems promising – appears to be higher quality hardware, includes a core library, supports .NET, etc. ControlThink appears to have a pretty good controller and SDK.

Here’s an interesting application to consider: Stall Status: Know Before You Go

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    We found there really wasn’t much developer support for Insteon unless you wanted to buy their SDK and agree to their rather heavy-handed license agreement. Rather than go that route, we wrote our own .NET library called FluentDwelling and we open-sourced it. You can find a download link, and some get-you-started code samples if you follow that link.

    The source code comes with a full suite of unit tests (requires NUnit, also free), so you can add improvements and make changes if you like.

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