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What are you trying to do? Control every light in every classroom or things like common areas and hallways? I would personally not expect an Insteon switch to survive the pounding that grade school kids might give it all day long but would expect a good life out of a switch that mostly is operated manually by adults and/or automatically by commands from ISY. Of course a school is probably on 3 phase and who knows what kind of "noise" exists. 3 phase certainly works fine with Insteon, but it is one more thing to consider. It isn't very hard to have one ISY talk to another using the network module. It would only be a minimal jump in "pay grade". The ISY has the REST interface and the network module can send a REST command to another ISY to run a program, turn a device on or off, set a variable, or various other tasks. If you want a full fledged marriage where device status and whatnot is shared. . . well that really is beyond what is reasonable with an ISY.

It would be best to do this with the power off for reasons aside from accidental shock. If you have an almost connected wire and you start wiggling things, it will arc and pop on/off and the power irregularities can easily fry an insteon switch. Should you ever choose to work with hot wires and Insteon switches, you should at least pull the hard disconnect on the Insteon switch first.

What lee is referring to is that the wires are often daisy-chained. If the hot/neutral goes from the breaker box to the first gang box, it may then be spliced to one or more wires that go to the next box, and perhaps it may do the same again. If your wire nut is loose or one of the wires slipped a bit and is not making contact under the nut, and this nut happens to be the first in the daisy chain, then all of the rest of the downstream devices would go out. Pick up a volt meter for a couple bucks and pull any one of the "dead" switches and see if the hot is hot testing both against the neutral and ground wire.

No, there is only one Universal Devices device on Harmony Remote software. It brings in 40 IR codes which are the ISY's default 40. They are called IR001, IR002, etc through IR040

I have 2 of the 890's and a 900. All 3 list 40 default codes when I add the ISY to my device list. The codes come from the Harmony server, so it should be exactly the same for everyone. I don't understand why you would only have 16.

They are pretty big, I don't know the exact size but they will not fit in a regular junction box. Yeah, they are kind of bulky. They will fit in a triple wall gang box, but only if it is a deep box and your switches are very thin (pretty sure you aren't going to get an Insteon switch over it). They will fit in a 4 inch j-box like this. http://www.lowes.com/pd_70965-53911-521 ... facetInfo= They are 3.5 inches in longest dimension. http://files.buyitsellit.com/8181/XPF.pdf

I had the exact same problem with a transformer for undercabinet lights. I used one of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/X10-PRO-XPF-20A ... 4176975cf1 and the problem was solved. I hard wired it directly to the transformer so I can still control the light with Insteon switches.

Cutting through all the confusion, you need to understand one thing. When and only when a program triggers will it either run the true (then) or false (else) clause. If you understand triggers then you will get it. For example status: trigger every time there is change in status of specified device control: trigger every time the specific action is taken (control switched on) (never evaluates to false unless you use "not", then is always false) state variable: every time the variable changes integer variable: never a trigger time is: triggers at that time (always true, again unless you use "not") time is from/to: triggers at from and to times (true and false) You may also force trigger a program from another program or manually by doing a "run xxx". These are the most common triggers, others exist, especially if you have modules.

I just looked at the ultimates webpage. It doesn't look like it does much over IP beside update the settings you change on your pc and connect to a smartphone app. So, in short, you would need to do it the same way as with the harmony remotes. The remote or its base station "shines" the ir signal at the isy and the isy executes a program in response. .. like dim the theater lights and turn on the projector, or whatever.

I suspect you would have to determine what it is capable of as far as sending IP commands. ISY wiki gives pretty good explanation of how to use REST commands to set just about anything on the ISY. http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index ... _Interface

If you have ethernet access in the area of where you would put the dry contact input device, a much cheaper way is to use the cai webcontrol. Webcontrol can set variables on ISY and has 8 digital inputs and 3 analog inputs. It also has a bunch of other stuff that you may or may not care to use. The analog inputs can also be used as digital inputs so you can monitor 11 alarm contacts with a single $35 board. You need to write a few lines of code in the cai to get it to set the variables on ISY but it is pretty simple stuff.

The best way is to create one new scene with all of the individual devices as responders and the kpl button as the controller. A program that triggers multiple scenes will be slower and more prone to communication errors since multiple commands will be sent out simultaneously.

No, you wouldn't. The program is always disabled (assuming you set it as disabled). Calling a program via "run if/then/else" does not re-enable it. The "enable" and "disable" only serves to stop the program from SELF triggering (or in other words, by a condition in the "if" clause causing the "if" to trigger). Any other program or a manual action on a user's part can still force run the if/then/else even while disabled.

Yeah, but in a split breaker, both occupy the same even/odd slot. Didn't those Fed Pacific ones get recalled or something? I thought I read about that.

There are panels that don't alternate leg 1/leg 2 every other breaker location. But they are few and far between. The ones that don't do it this way have a crazy breaker design for the 240v breakers where there are 2 breakers where one is nested inside the other. There may be other designs beside that, but it is the only example I know of. So if you have the typical 240v breaker that bridges 2 adjacent "normal" breakers (without hopping over in intervening one), then you almost certainly have the typical alternating legs. It has been my experience that adding more devices doesn't always improve communication. I have added new devices to my home and watched as previously reliable devices became flaky. I can't say that I know how to explain this except that perhaps timing issues or "clashing" of communications occurs.

Your logic is sound. Probably this would be a more easily organized way to do it, especially as you mentioned, if you have lots of toggle programs. You could just disable the whole folder with an if clause that is never true.

This wouldn't work for his program because the "other tests" would need to be: Status 'MASTER - Fan Light' is Off And Control 'MASTER - Fan Light' is switched Off The first line "status master light is off" would be a trigger every time the light changed status which would result in the "else" clause running a whole lot of times you didn't want it. Also, it would require that this program be the only way you turn the noise machine on/off. If you turned the noise machine on or off otherwise, the variable would be out of sync, and you would need another program to track the status of the noise machine. . . which defeats the whole purpose of trying to turn 2 programs into 1. The real answer to this problem has been discussed at length in the past, and that would be for ISY to allow you to select which conditions may act as triggers. Like a check box after each line or something.

Did you reboot the computer that you were accessing ISY from? It sounds like you had an error in the JAVA console if the programs tab wasn't there.

Except that it should default to the root folder being expanded when you open the java session. I would be curious if the root folder itself is even there.

I believe many things are stored on the SD card. So probably an SD card issue was a long shot. But it is simple enough to power down the unit, pull the card, put it back in and power the unit back up. If the above doesn't work, you can try restoring a recent backup. Hopefully you have one of those. I haven't ever seen someone post a comment on here that the programs disappeared and all else was fine. It is not like there is a way to just erase all the programs with a single event and not affect anything else.

Are the programs still running (in other words, is stuff happening that is caused by your programs?) Did you try rebooting ISY? Maybe the SD card is loose?

Post the actual program. And as mentioned, check your program summary page for evidence of tasker having done its job. If tasker sent a "run if" you will see "last run time" updated to that time regardless of the program's outcome. Also, if you do a "run if" manually from ISY console, do you get the correct result?

Maybe I could use the electric fence generator and lay some wires under the bottom sheet? No doubt that would get her out of bed.

We are installing computers where we once installed light switches. Sometimes, computers require a reboot. By the way, I believe the same results can be had by simply pulling the little tab along the bottom of the switch, and resetting after a few seconds or a minute. yes, the same result will happen by pulling the tab. it is a hard disconnect. All electricity will be shut off to the devices electronics and produces the same result as shutting the circuit breaker off as far as a "reboot"

Here is a program of mine that is quite similar to what you want. It is to wake up my daughter (who still usually does not wake up). It flips the lights on and off and makes the switch beep each time. The "if" clause allows her to shut off the blinking by either hitting the on or off paddle of the switch (which causes the program to trigger, aborting the repeat, and running the empty then clause). You use the "repeat 1 time" at the end to revert to regular non-repeating stuff to follow the repeating stuff. If Control 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' is switched On Or Control 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' is switched Off Then - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Else Repeat 120 times Set 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' On Set 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' 180 (Beep Duration) Wait 2 seconds Set 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' Off Set 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' 180 (Beep Duration) Wait 2 seconds Repeat 1 times Set 'Lauren Bedroom / Lauren BR-Overhead L' On