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maybe I can use my old 99i as an ir receiver. Have the ir trigger a network command to ISYoP. Knew I kept it for a reason.

The node server has no instructions for anything but output.

My understanding of ITach IP2IR is that the IR receiver on the unit only functions as a mechanism to learn IR signals, not to generate a specific action based on a specific IR input.

@JTsao Opposite direction. I actually have that and am using it, but that is for ISY to send IR (via Itach transmitter), I need ISY to receive IR. I have a Harmony Elite but also have a Harmony 900. The 900 does not have a network connection so the Harmony node doesn't work as with the Elite. And now Logitech doesn't make them anymore. I could probably get another Elite used, but man, so much work. It would be so much easier if there were an IR receiver for IoP.

I am considering moving ISY to Polisy, but I am using the IR receiver on the 994i unit and don't see that Polisy has any option to receive IR. Ideas?

You can buy the new Polisy and run ISY on it. This supports both USB and serial PLM. ISY running on Polisy is new and, I believe still in beta, but very stable from what I see here on the forum. I am likely going to migrate my ISY to Polisy soon and retire my 994i. Polisy also runs Polyglot which dramatically increases integration between ISY and damn near everything else that has a published API, and some things that aren't published but people have reverse engineered. I have installed over 20 node servers on my ISY now so things like my roomba, flume water meter, sense energy meter, weather stations, etc are all nodes on ISY, the same as an Insteon device is a node.

That is what they are. Look at the label on a 2477d for example. Though I am reading from others that because the rf was in a freq not allowed in Europe they didn't sell there. I don't know, I thought I saw some stuff about them selling products there, but maybe not. Obviously the stuff would work in Europe, but their FCC wouldn't allow you to sell it there if indeed the freq is wrong. I suppose you might be in violation to even use it if you brought it over in a suitcase, but who would know.

What were they taking pre-orders on? The Nokia stuff?

Pretty much always happens like this. There will be rumors (or not). They don't come out and say we are closing in 90 days or whatever. The chaos of the last 90 days (or whatever) would be worse than just "boom" done. There is no graceful way to go out of business. There are many examples where people show up to work on a Monday to find the doors are locked and the furniture is gone. The only graceful exits happen when a company closes a division while otherwise staying in business. Here the shut down is financed by the part of the company that is still in business. Though they should have made an announcement on that last day rather than just shutting down the server.

I'm pretty sure Insteon stuff sold in Europe. For quite a few years now ~everything they sold was 100-270vac 50-60hz.

Hopefully you have the old ones. Replace the capacitors for perhaps $10 total (mostly shipping) and you'll have $500/ea items to sell on ebay. 99% of the time they fail because of the capacitors and it just isn't very hard to replace them.

Success. I moved polisy to the other vlan, it found Roomba, I moved Polisy back to the secure vlan and it was able to maintain connection. Thanks.

With ISY, you don't need to know the Insteon address. It has a discover mode. You just click on the auto discover button on the ISY menu, and then press and hold the discover button on each device. You can do a whole bunch at once. I would start by going through every insteon device in your house and pull the tab out, then press in and hold until the long beep quits. This factory resets. After that, put ISY in discover mode and press the little button on each device and in a second or two ISY will discover it. Label the device in the ISY app. Before you start, I would create a plan for how you will name things and create a folder tree. Life is much easier later on. I like to add an "L" to the end of the name of every device that manages the actual load. Once all of your devices are part of Insteon, then start creating your scenes. You will find that ISY allows the creation of extremely complex scenes, if you like. It can get confusing because there are so many options. But in the end, you will appreciate it. Understand that each scene has one or more controller devices. A device can control only one scene, but respond to as many as you like. Each device will also have local settings. Meaning that when you push that device's switch paddle, the local settings are what happens, any scene to which it is a responder or controller is irrelevant, the local settings is what that device does when you control it directly (locally). Then there are the settings when the device is the responder to a scene. They can be the same or different as the local settings. Lets take an example, you have a 3 way. Each device is set as a controller to the scene. You want all 3 switches to do the same thing. Within the scene, you set each device to respond as you like (all the same). You then need to set each device independently to do the same thing when locally controlled. The beauty of this is that it doesn't have to be that way. You could instead make something different happen when you touch each of the three switches. A single scene with three controllers could do different things when using each of the 3 switches, if you like. Anyway, in short, factory reset, add devices to ISY, and have a clear plan of organizing them before you start.

Hubs work as really powerful access points. Much better than actual access points. I use a couple for that purpose, I do not use the hub as a hub at all.

Life is a lot easier if you do it my way. 1) tape off the back of the unit with some painters tape except the region of the repair. 2) Melt the solder with your iron from the back 3) Blast it away with an air compressor 4) Repeat on other terminal 5) The old will slide right out 6) Slide the new without trimming the leads, the air blast method leaves the hole virtually 100% free of solder so it goes in easy. 7) Solder it in using a spec of flux Spin the extra wire around and back forth for a few seconds and it will snap off at the solder 9) remove tape, check for solder splatter and clean if needed, also clean with q tip and alcohol any flux residue.

Well if it can be figured out that would be great. My father in law has an insteon thermostat which he needs the hub to control remotely. He had some insteon cameras as well but I'm not sure if any of those work anymore. But I know the thermostat does. If the hub can not be hacked to work as a remote interface anymore, I'll dig out one of my old ISY's and set it up at his house. Trouble is, I'd have to let him use one of my spare PLM's. . . which gives me pause.

All the power to him if he can hack the access point, er I mean hub, and make it work as a hub again.

Would be curious to know just how many active hub users there are. Seems like it would be many thousands, not hundreds.

You need to stop thinking of it as a hub. It is an access point. The best access point, better than the access point that is called an access point. I just stumbled across it because I needed some lamplincs and someone was selling a brand new kit of 2 lamplincs and a hub for less than the two lamplincs cost by themselves. So then I had the hub, just for the heck of it tried using it as an access point and was pleasantly surprised. Been running now for maybe 5 years, maybe more as the only plc/radio interface at my church activities building. The ISY and PLM are in a different building and the plc runs to building number two by what basically amounts to a 150 foot extension cord where it plugs into the hub. Without the hub, there is zero com at building 2. Neither plc or radio is detectable in building 2 without it.

Not sure what you mean. But simply put, you plug it in. Done. It will repeat all traffic it receives via either plc or radio as both radio and plc.

Virtually everything can work with ISY/Polisy. I know a few of the newest and unusual devices have limited functionality because Insteon refused to give the specs to UDI and, while UDI has the ability, they just did not want to spend the time reverse engineering them. I personally don't have many unusual devices, all the various Insteon wall switches and plug in lamp/appliance modules work. Fan links work, water sensors, motion sensors, and that wraps up what I own.

I have found Insteon hub to have a really powerful radio and serve as an excellent access point. As I mentioned elsewhere, I set up some Insteon thermostats at my church activities building without any other Insteon devices. Initially, I used a standard Insteon access point, but it had really bad com, even with several of them. Then I switched to a single hub and com is now perfect. I never configured the hub, it is just a plc/radio interface. The first hub did did. Insteon replaced it and did not ask for it back, so I played, replaced the caps, and it works again. I can't imagine what might have been if Insteon had just spent 10 cents more per device and used top of the line caps. Saving those 10 cents might be what cost them the company.

The store is closed for all brands. You will notice if you try to buy anything that still exists it just forwards you to Amazon. This is not unusual to just "boom" be gone. There have been large companies that just one day the employees show up and the doors are locked, even they have no idea. I had a tenant that actually did that to me and stiffed me on the rent.

FYI, hubs also die from bad caps. I fixed one just for fun. I use a couple hubs to help with long range Insteon radio. It seems that the radio in the hub is much stronger than the radios in all other devices. Could be just other random issues, but I use Insteon thermostats at my church. They are radio only of course. I tried using multiple dual band plug in modules first and had dismal com. I tried a hub, and it is flawless. The radio covers a distance of maybe 100 feet through metal stud walls.

Well, just the devices made by Universal Devices (UDI), the company whose forum you are writing on. The trouble is you need a plm to interface the UDI device with Insteon and the PLM's are only made by Insteon. Pretty much that means ebay for a used/new old stock. I would suggest getting a polisy because it supports all PLM's (USB and Serial). The Polisy is a newer product and is, I believe now in beta, but I think you will be fine with it. You could get an ISY 994i but then you will be limited to the serial plm (unless you want to hack a usb/serial adapter for it). But Polisy is the future for UDI so I would go that route. I imagine the 994i will stop being supported in maybe 5 to 10 years. Of course ISY/Polisy can control and interface a myriad of other products, the most widely adopted one being z-wave, but there are tons of other things. Polisy is the name of the hardware device that the controllers run on. The base controller is ISY, which natively handles Insteon and Zwave. I believe z-wave radio comes standard with polisy with the option to purchase a stronger radio. Of course the Insteon "radio" (PLM) is as discussed. 994i base model does not have a zwave radio. In addition to ISY running on polisy, polyglot (PG) is a separate piece of software running side by side with ISY on Polisy. Polyglot serves as the middle man between all sorts of things and ISY, pretty much anything with an API. Things like weather stations, Tesla, Roomba, camera software, pool control systems, alarm systems (DSC and Elk) and on and on. UDI also hosts a cloud service at a minimal cost. This is optional but allows for access to your ISY from outside your LAN without port forwarding your router. It also manages synchronizing ISY with Alexa and Google.