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I have been adding Yolink sensors to complement my Insteon setup. They make a simple temp humidity sensor that is battery powered and long range. I have one each in my kitchen fridge and freezer, as same in the garage fridge. I wrote iox programs sense when they're out of comfort range. Because activities like loading new food / drinks will temporarily warm things up, I have a "wait" before it sends me a notification via the notification plugin. I also send notification for batteries getting low. Yolink provides notifications natively too, but I prefer all of my notifications for home automation in one place. I've had yolink for a couple of years and happy with it. I travel a lot and initially checked in and looked at the yolink app's graphs for the fridge/freezers. Once I got my iox programs to not report "food loading" mis-notifications, I've stopped looking in and count on notifications. I use the following: Yolink speaker hub, $25 (Only 1 needed) Temperature / Humidity sensor $22 (sale right now) Yolink pg3x plugin $40 (Only 1 needed) They claim 2 year battery life, which is easily true for most room temperature applications. In a fridge or freezer, 8 months to a year is what I experience. They do make a more expensive hub that will work locally without depending on their cloud. I don't use it, but you can look in the yolink section of the forum to see what users have to say.

update...I never did get Polisy to add some matter thread devices (specifically, the nano leaf bulb). I was able to add a govee matter device and a GECync matter device, but I think they were matter-over-wifi. I migrated to the EISY recently, and the matter-over-thread now seems to work. I am now able to add the nano leaf bulbs.

I am looking for a sensor I can put in multiple freezers to detect if they fail and start to warm up. I would prefer corded to avoid battery swapping but the battery is if no other option exists. I had bought this Zigbee devices. There appears to be many relabeled version of them, but it turns out it uses proprietary tuya values and while the relay works (not used) the sensor cannot be read by eisy. I would like to avoid getting the tuya hub for this one device, so I would prefer something native for eisy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9VT44L1?th=1 This is exactly what I want but want it to work with eisy, are there any similar products on the market? I don't care about the relay, just the sensor probe.

If you have zwave devices enabled, there is a separate backup for those devices under the zwave menu. Make that backup first, then backup normally. The zwave backup then becomes part of the ISY backup.

Nope... if you have a recent good one that's fine. I backup like you do.. pretty much any program/config change gets backed up. The PLM gets backed up with the ISY backup. The reason its good to have a recent backup is that the PLM links info can get corrupted as it dies.. and a back up after it dies can backup bad data and then push that to the new PLM.... You will be fine with your backups

Take a backup now... Do you mean a normal backup? I do one EVERY TIME I make a change to my system. I'll do one anyway for prosperity sake... Or is there a special PLM backup procedure? If so, I've never done one of those EddieRock

@RCJ welcome to the forums. I’m not sure if UD Mobile can access remotely as you describe. Based on the wiki other methods are supported. https://wiki.universal-devices.com/UD_Mobile#Remote_Connections Did you have the ISY994 connected to the UD Portal before they stopped selling the add-on in 2023? If you have an active portal subscription you can use the portal connection. It’s safer than opening ports on a home router (as long as your password is secure).

As @paulbates mentioned, your PLM has most likely reached its end of life. You should replace it with the 2413U PLM which is a usb model and doesn't require the adapter cable so there's less to go wrong. Be sure to follow the replace PLM procedure, see attached. Replace PLM Procedure (EISY or POLISY).pdf

15 years with a plm might be a new record... 2 things... Take a backup.. now It's better to replace a failing plm on your terms timewise, than it die on you. Link tables can get corrupted as it fails more. It takes a few days to get shipped after ordering...more if it's backordered

I have a ISY994 firmware 5.3.4 that works with UD Mobile in the house on wifi, but will not work outside on external network. I have setup the remote URL, port, username and password on the app. I have also setup port forwarding in my router. when I hit Test Remote Connection with wifi off i keep getting this message "Error (IOException) javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:connection closed" Can some one please help me out with this Thank you

Ok. I've opened a support ticket. Michel Kohanim replied and had me pull my PLM for 1 minute. Then plug it back in and reboot my EISY with the power button "reboot eisy: press/hold power button-> red. Click again -> blue." After the reboot, it wanted me to do an upgrade. I did. All seems better now. Michel indicated that he thinks my PLM may be starting to fail. It's like 15 years old or so... I maybe dying... Thanks for the replies! I think I'm good until my PLM takes a dump. EddieRock

Great, for reference the numbers 1:1,1 correspond to the module and port (blaster). Depending on your iTach version and number of ports and modules.

I found the setting for "Catch up schedules at restart" and it IS checked. This is the first time I've seen that setting, so it must have been a default. I would think this is OK so that any programs scheduled AFTER the reboot will happen on their appropriately scheduled times. What other ramifications do I need to consider? I left it checked for now. I also see a "Query at restart" which probably explains why the EISY queried every device. I guess this should be harmless. I left it checked. I'm not quite understanding Geddy's comments about the wait. The program seems very simple. Twice a day it turns on the blower, waits 5 minutes, and turns it off again. It has been working fine for months. It has never left the blower turned on for more than 5 minutes. The Onvacation variable simply allows me to prevent the blower from running unnecessarily when I am on vacation. I set that variable to 1 before I leave, and then set it to 0 when I return. I don't have any other programs that affect the BSMT Blower. Perhaps you are saying "what if the reboot occurred during that 5 minute wait?" I guess I don't know to be honest. Is the software smart enough to know that it has to catch up to the middle of that 5 minute wait and continue on where it left off, finishing out the wait and turning the blower off? Or if the power is out for, say, 10 minutes, will it recognize the current time is now past when the blower should have been shut off, and go ahead and shut it off immediately? The X10 Universal Modules I mentioned are used to turn ceiling fans on or off. Two of them are programmed to turn on at noon every day (they turn on my kitchen and living room ceiling fans). A third one turns on again in the evening (to turn off the kitchen fan). None of those programs has "run at startup" set to true, yet they did run. I could hear the modules clacking on and off during the reboot. Not a big deal, just odd. I kind of understand what you are saying about using 2 programs, but I'm hesitant to make this more complicated that it needs to be, given how rare the problem comes up. Thank you nonetheless. Oh well, I'll just chalk this up to "live and learn". P.S. I did move the EISY to a UPS so it shouldn't be affected by power outages (at least relatively short ones). I'm a retired batch programmer and have used Insteon and UDI for many years, but still learning a new trick here and there. Thank you for your assistance and have a good day! Jon

@EddieRock you're probably best off getting help directly from UD on this issue. Please open a support ticket with them: https://www.universal-devices.com/my-tickets Try what @Techman points out, but don't do anything deeper than that unless instructed to by UD. It's almost like something is corrupt and they would be best to work with to troubleshoot the issue and correctly resolve if it's more involved than simply reloading the IoX Launcher process or rebooting the eisy.

@jsilver561 split your post out to the ZMatter forum since it more seems to be asking about connecting via Matter option. I've not tried this device, but I would assume since Matter support is very limited (currently) that you're probably seeing the best you can get through the IoX+Matter integration. I believe it's still just supporting bulbs and switches (I actually haven't been keeping up as I don't have any Matter devices). Meaning that I doubt the Matter support is fully developed to cover properties like color changing. Since you are able to get the device to connected through the plugin and can control more features I would suggest that's probably the best course of action at the present time (for your situation).

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 1:49 PM I was curious to see if anyone has had any success completely setting up a Tapo L535E Matter-certified smart color lightbulb. I am able to add the bulb to the EISY via the UD Mobile app “add a matter device" and it adds successfully, but I do not have the options of changing colors on the administrative console; it acts just like a white bulb, with only on/off and brightness adjustments. If I remove it from the EISY (via the plug-in) and add it to the Tapo app, I am able to control the color, etc. on the Tapo app, and while the Kasa-beta plug-in recognizes the bulb, The EISY console then also only allows control of brightness, on/off, but no color control. Has anybody has anybody had any experience or success with this?

Upgraded and restarted. Still same error:

Got it, all good thanks!

Sounds good, thank you!

That should return an xml like in the screenshot. Finder uses that info.

Thanks all, I had my eisy mounted on the wall with the brackets that came with it, but felt things were too hot so like I said, I have it propped up so it gets more air around it, but it is still hot. Compared to both Raspberry Pi's I run for my 3D printers, HA installation, and other small SBCs the eisy seems to run hot. I've got some large aluminum heat sinks that I think I'll try first and see if that cools things some. I've never been a fan (pun not intended) of the combination of heat and electronics; the TV above the fireplace design has always made me cringe whenever I see it.

As a test, I ran an IR emitter from one of the other ports on the iTach and it worked! I've been using port 3 with a blaster since day one and it's always worked. Turns out, ports 2 and 3 are no longer working. After a lot of rewiring and a powered IR splitter it's all working. Thanks for your help!

Thanks, should the web ui ever respond properly to /desc or is this reserved for the finder?

The "version" in your admin console is blank and it shouldn't be What controller are you using and what is its firmware version Try clearing your java cache, be sure to check all 3 boxes, then download the IoX Launcher from here: https://isy.universal-devices.com/start.jnlp Also try removing power from the controller for about 30 seconds

The Zwave/Matter module supports up to the 700 series. It's supposed to support LR but I'm not sure if it has been implemented.