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Your poll is very specific to AV functionality, based upon the use-cases referenced so far. So, like other miss-posts, it gets moved in the regular nightly scan/shuffle.
I heartily disagree. As you might know UPnP/DLNA has a broader scope than AV.[/quote]
I understand that UPnP has a set of functionality over and above it’s AV roots, which is why I indicated is was based upon the use-cases referenced so far… (which are basically Receivers, Sonos-like devices, and TV’s)
So you decide what can be 'polled' in the General forum? Great. Where is the forum policy?
As you know, we expanded the categorization in the Forum some 6mo back to better segment the Topic discussions in order to group those that were related, and better allow the sub-communities to see what's interesting to them, and for folks posting questions to have their stuff not get "lost" in the noise that was the original "General" bit-bucket and to [hopefully] get resolution from people that have similar interests.
This Categorization outline was floated to the Beta Members for review, and it underwent a few revisions based upon concensus feedback over a period of about 2 mo.
After the rollout, I manually moved a few key discussions from General over into their segmented categories. From time to time, I do a similar “quick scan” of the General bucket and, based solely upon the content of the post, I’ll move it.
If the post content covers none of the sub-categories, or a set of them, then I leave it in General. I moved about 10 posts last night, after looking at the content of each and your post was just one.
We have a few other Global Moderators that do similar things, and are reasonably consistent about doing it.
ie. all the standard tradeoffs that are made daily in Professional Software development
You would categorize MiOS as ‘Professional Software development’? :o
No matter which way you categorize their efforts, I believe we do better when we organize our “wish lists” based upon what we’d expect when folks come to us in our own Professional lives.
Which do you prefer, a Customer that organizes an ordered set of priorities for resolution, or a one-at-a-time shower of stuff?
We took a rough stab at this ordered wish-list for one of the latter UI4 releases, and it had a great result. IMHO, if we repeated that process, with “holistic” lists for drops, rather than one-offs, we’d have a better voice to get things addressed.
That’s what I’m referring to when I talk about Professional SW Dev, to organize and prioritize, and to use our collective power.
a) Insteon/X10 Support
b) AV/UPnP Support
c) IR Support/Remote Issues
d) Improved Z-Wave Support for Battery devices
e) Better Z-Wave Diagnostics (and/or Visualizations) for failing environments
f) Large scale deployments
I cannot see any progress on any of the aforementioned categories on MCV’s side, but I do see regressions that MCV doesn’t care about (e.g., support for Danfoss RA-Plus-w, UIRT, …).
It’s not by accident that I put together that specific list 8)
All progress made so far consists of contributions by users, not by MCV (to name just a few: Mochad plugin, vendor-specific AV plugins, IR plugins/code, ADD, LSI, dataMine).
And that's a good thing. There's a whole bag of stuff that we, as programmers, could easily write to extend the platform to do exactly what we need for our specialist devices. Work-arounds, of course, but we can write them...
Z-Wave, and some of the core functionality above, on the other hand is totally out of our control and requires MCV and Team to address it. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to see more stuff exposed so we can extend (or replace). It would avoid some of the bottlenecks the more advanced users see.
Oh, and I really should have added Scene support for “AND” to the list, to be more complete voting list… 
