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Thanks Michel! And be sure to take time to enjoy the holiday! I'll be back home in a week and then I can do some troubleshooting for you.

Michel, if I weren't getting ready to catch a plane, I'd go take it out of the wall and look I can tell you it's an Icon, one of the ones that they just discontinued. If this helps, it shows up in the ISY as a (2876S) Icon On/Off Switch v.35 -- this may mesh with the SL v.35 problem you mentioned.

No I didn't check the log, I watched the device directly on the screen. I'll update the firmware after I get back home from Christmas vacation and give it a shot.... Thanks!

I recently installed a new Insteon motion sensor in our big closet, and an Icon relay switch on the closet light. I wrote a program in my ISY-26 that operates like this: When the switch is manually turned ON, and the motion sensor is OFF then it waits one minute and turns off the switch. That way if someone walks into the closet with the light on, it resets the timer. It works great... EXCEPT... sometimes, when the switch is turned ON the ISY doesn't see it turn ON. I can sit there sometimes and cycle the switch over and over and the status won't change. If I do a manual query on the device, or do a manual query on everything, afterwards it seems to work perfectly for hours. I first noticed this after I installed 2.6.11 (my existing revision didn't have a motion sensor option) and saw that many people were having some similar issues so I installed 2.6.12 beta and it all went away except for this new Icon. Anybody have any more ideas?

I concur. Programming is just so darned easy with the ISY, start from scratch, you might even enjoy it!

Mine did the same thing. My outdoor lights didn't come on 20 mins before sunrise or turn off 20 mins after sunrise -- they were still dim at 8:00 AM (they dim at midnight)... so the morning timers didn't run at sunrise when the ISY thought that it was March 1. At 7:45 AM I synced the date to the computer and my evening timers didn't run at sunset when it thought it was February 29. We'll have to see what happens in the morning..... A leap year bug is hard to catch in testing, so I'll let this one slide Thanks Michel! -- Bill Cahill

I had a weird anomaly with one of my KPLs. But it went away after I re-downloaded the link tables from the ISY. Try restoring that device. If not, try to see what does turn it on and restore that device.

Michel, this is the kind of product engineering that they don't teach you in college. Great idea!

Red-Bull, man!!!!!! Seriously.... There are only two people in the world that I would truly want to work for..... Glenn Beck and his radio show (although I have neither the talent nor the comedic wit to actually make that happen), and.... UDI, but that would mean that I would need to move to California.... and I could never afford that. Kudos to Michel and staff. I have never, ever seen such great and fast customer service.

You know, I had been meaning to bring that suggestion over to this thread.... Remember that old X10 alarm clock that would send X10 commands to a specific address at a specific time? Would be great if UDI created a networked alarm clock that would send updated alarm times as variables to the ISY over the Ethernet connection. You could write specific programs and then enable/disable/set the time for each one remotely.....

Thanks Chris! I never thought of doing it that way.

Here is what I would be interested in. If I run a program, I would like to be able to call another program and run the "Then" or the "Else" based on the "If" of the secondary program... In other words, have programs that only run if called by other programs. Right now, it seems that if a program calls another program, it immediately runs the "Then"

I don't know if this is correct... but while watching the indicator lights on the PLM and the Access Point, it looks like one command is sent when the dim or bright button is first pushed, and one more is sent when it is let go--like a "start dim" and a "stop dim" command.... does anybody know if I am right?

For some reason, on an ISY reboot it seems that some of my programs run. Doesn't look like they are supposed to but I haven't done enough troubleshooting to ask Michel yet.

I was trying to telnet into my ISY and was having difficulties with Windows Vista not knowing how to Telnet. Turns out telnetting is disabled by default in Vista. Here is an excellent place to learn how to turn it on: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Art ... 93952.html

Jeez. I had to do it too. Far out man.

That answers my question! Turns out I have lots more links available.

In the calculator, what assumptions are used for number of links per scene? I have quite a bit of scenes with only 3 or 4 devices, but I noticed that each time a scene is added it adds 10 to the link table. Is that the assumption?

Michel, are you in Encino (where the contact address for UD is)? If so, next time I get out to Riverside, if I can get the OK from the customer, I will offer you a first class tour of one of the facilities that I programmed and commissioned (I can't mention the name of the customer here but it could be one of the hubs of one of the three or four shipping companies you use). You are an expert in home automation and I will show you all about industrial automation.

I will try that after work! Thank you sir. Also ordered a pair of Accesspoints today. I do have some intermittant issues I want to see if I can take care of. Other than those particular issues, it is working great. Got all my groups programmed, got some timers in for the outside lights to come on 20 minutes before sunset, to dim down at midnight, come on 30 minutes before sunrise and turn off at sunrise. I will be eventually adding motion detectors to brighten the outside lights for a few minutes when activated. Also, all lights on/off works well, including LED follow. As a quick comment, I am an industrial automation engineer, I program Allen-Bradley and Modicon PLC controllers and am getting into Siemens controllers as well. After spending all day with those programs, it is a treat to come home and play with the ISY-26! -- Bill

A couple of years ago I needed to call an ambulance for my wife and the paramedics had difficulty locating my home (even with well-lit address, etc). What I am trying to do is to write a program to flash the outside lights to make my home more visible. I have tried the following program: If Status 'KPL_FOYER H' is On And Control 'KPL_FOYER H' is not switched Off Then Repeat 10 times Run program '911 FLASH ON' Wait 1 second Run program '911 FLASH OFF' Wait 1 second Else Stop program '911 FLASH' It will run 10 times (I picked 10 times just to test it). It does what it says it will do -- flash 10 times and stop. I would like to make it flash until I turn it off (the 999 maximum would be OK) but I would also like a way to stop it by turning off the 'KPL_FOYER H' button. I made a separate program that stops this program if the button is turned off but this doesn't work (probably because the ISY continues to loop the program. And, since the program seems to loop without checking the "if" rung then it won't stop itself. I have also tried calling the program from itself to make it repeat (instead of using "Repeat xx times"), thinking that that would make it repeat until the program was false... it doesn't even repeat that way. I also copied the program to another program and used the end of one program to call the other and vice versa and it wouldn't stop flashing! I had to manually stop it from the ISY. Any ideas?