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I feel like I'm always getting the short end of the stick with smarthome. I've spent thousands over the years and I have numerous KPLs that hang every time there is a power disturbance, switchlincs with flakey buttons, KPLs with slightly mismatched key colors and a box of smarthome hub products that never worked right. After awhile I quit trying anything new because they always shipped 1/2 baked functionality and never bothered designing in the ability to update their firmware. I probably have 50+ Insteon devices in my house (much of it 10+ years old now), and something is "always" broken. I worry I'll never be able to sell the house without ripping it all out. I just ordered a new ISY with z-wave and I think I'm going to test those waters a little I do think the KPL functionality (other than the frequent lock-ups), is great though. I don't see any alternative product with the flexibility. The custom button price is killing me though... Trying to get by with 4-5 of the 50-button kits, but some things just won't map (fireplace, tub, shower, basement)...

I can't get the motion sensors to locally control an appliancelinc either... More fodder for the 4 broken motion sensors argument I guess. I have a remotelinc that works fine, so I know my access point setup is good (4 scattered across various parts of the house, 2 on each 110v leg).

yea, I've tried resetting the morion sensors. I've tried linking in single flash and double flash mode, I've tried in the light and in the dark. The PLM and access point both will blink if I hit the motion sensor button, so I know I'm in range (its only 3 feet). The event viewer looks exactly the same if I try to link to a totally bogus address. It looks like the ISY is not communicating at all with the morion sensors. Seems hard to believe I got a shipment of 4 defective motion sensors, but I'm starting to think that maybe I did.

I have 5 motion sensors... 1 is rev 1.0B with a date code of 4408 and 4 are rev 1.1 with a date code of 4908. The rev 1.0B unit links and works fine. I can't get any of the rev 1.1 units to even link. I 1st get a "removing all links" message followed by "failed getting engine version, reverting to I1", followed by a message I can't see and a "request failed" message. I'm using firmware 2.7.6 after upgrading from 2.7.0 which had the same problem. I see many other people using rev 1.1 here with no problems. I'm at a loss to figure out where I'm going wrong. Right now, I've got my access point plugged into the PLM about 4 feet from the motion sensor I'm trying to link. The rev 1.0B unit that works fine is a good 15 feet from the nearest access point Any ideas???