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And I thought I was the only one.

How serious are you about securing your house? Insteon is pretty good, but I don't know that I would consider the reliability high enough for a security system. It is also will fail in the event of a power outage.

It appears Apple has a vindeta against Sun and won't allow Java in the iphone. I went ahead and jailbroke my iphone with 3.1.2 software successfully but am struggling to get Java onto it. Has anyone had success? I would love to run ISY, Elk, and other Java applications on my iphone.

I am using my elk to open my garage doors. I took one of my remote garage door openers and wired it up to one of the relays on the elk. I wrote a rule that then closes the relay for 2 seconds which is effectively the same thing as holding down the button on the remote for 2 seconds. It works every time. I don't know how the SH one works, but with my garage door opener connected to my elk, 2 seconds of closure on the relay works perfectly.

I tried buying some led's that advertised "warm". No way! I have yet to see an led that doesn't put out a most unpleasant bluish shade that is also very contrasty. They make people look gastly. I sure would love to see leds that have a nice warm soft white for 1/20th the electricity consumption and 50,000 hours or more life, but as of now, I don't think they exist.

I think it is your else command in the garage door status program. Try making that into two programs one for on and one for off instead of using the else. I had a similar thing happen when trying to use the else command for a program to create a toggle. It would turn on then a a second or two later turn back off. I rewrote it as two programs and it worked fine.

Sorry if I got a little carried away. So Rand says insteon 50% means 50% of full output. My guess is that it is something like 60% on the consumption side.

I think that depends on how you define 50% dimmed. If you define 50% dimmed as reducing energy consumption by 50% then it would be just that. If you define it as 50% of the lumens, then I think it would be complicated and depend on the specifics of the light bulb you were using. If you mean 50% of the watts going to the bulb as would without the light dimmed, then you would definitely lose some energy in the dimmer switch. Basically, the warmth you feel in the dimmer is wasted electricity (at least if your goal is making light out of your electricity). If you took a multimeter with amperage clamps, hooked over your line wire and measured amps at 100%. Then turn the light to 50% and measure your amps. Multiply times volts and you know your watts consumed at full and at 50%. That begs the question as to what is "50%" to the insteon people? Of course you could also get yourself a light meter and dim the light until you have half the lumens and measure your amps that way as well. This way you would know for sure the % decrease in watts consumed that results from a 50% decrease in light.

As I read this I am backing up my isy!!! How about allowing a program to initiate a backup much like you can write a program to do a system querry? Then each user can decide just how often and when to do backups. The main question that pops to mind with this however, can the isy run a backup to network harddrive or can it only backup to an external source via a java console running on the machine with the harddrive?

Very well then. I will make some folders to tidy things up a bit.

No, the scenes were created using the isy initially and then later I changed them using the isy. It was my impression that when you do a restore device that it is supposed to clear all old links and then drop in the correct links. I also was under the impression that when you pull a device out of a scene using the isy that it removes those links on the spot.

I went to change a scene around removing a kpl button. I added that kpl button to another scene. The problem was that then light switches in the old scene were turning on the new scene. I went through and did a restore device on each device in the scenes and still it didn't behave Finally I removed everything from the scenes and put them all back in. That worked. But my question is, why did I have to do that? Shoudn't it have worked by just removing the one thing and adding that same thing to another scene?

I am wanting to use an IR remote to toggle an insteon light switch with the press of a single button. I have to believe there is a way to do this by writing one program, but have found that I can only get it to work by writing 2. If Status "kitchen light' is off and IR "IR_001' is pressed then set scene 'kitchen lihgt' on else no action This turns the light on If Status 'kithchen light' is not off and IR 'IR_001' is pressed set scene 'kitchen light' off else no action This turns it off So again, the question, is there a way to merge these two programs into one program to toggle the light on/off with the press of the IR button?