Everything posted by Xathros
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Get status of a scene?
Insteon scenes don't have a status. You would need to test the status of each scene member to make a determination. Many of us choose a single member device to represent the status of a scene. Others will set a variable at the same time as turning on/off a scene and use the value of the variable to represent the scene's status. -Xathros
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Dual Band question
Any dual band Insteon device that receives a message with hops remaining will retransmit that message on both the power line and RF bands. It is not an either/or situation. -Xathros
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How to program an Insteon motion sensor
I see nothing wrong with your programs or logic here. More likely, you have a battery in one or more motion sensors that is getting low. Many of the ALL ON insteon events seem to be related to low battery conditions with motion sensors. -Xathros
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Troubleshooting POST Request
I'm not sure that I fully understand the exchange in the OP but it looks like there may be a session cookie involved which I believe is not supported by the ISY. -Xathros
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Email notifications
Interesting results. I knew things got queued up on the ISY but that test really shines a light on it. -Xathros
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Email notifications
Since the notification is the same for both, why not just include both addresses in the Email 1 group and send once ? -Xathros
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Understanding "retries" in ISY
Since you are well covered by access points, you might try putting the PLM behind a Filterlinc to force it to use RF only. See if that brings up your reliability any. -Xathros
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INSTEON IOLinc Garage Door Control and Status Kit
Yes. That is all you should need. -Xathros
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Intelligently turning the lights on when I open garage
Create a program as follows: Program: GarageAutoLightPrevent If Control 'Garage Lights' is Switched Off Or Control 'Garage Lights' is Swiatched Fast Off Then Wait 5 minutes Run Program 'GarageAutoLightPrevent' (Else Path) Else Use the True/False state of this program in the conditions for your garage lights program: If From Sunset +X Hours to Sunrise (next day) And 'Dark Downstairs however you determine that' And GarageAutoLightPrevent is False Then Set scene 'Arriving Home' On This will prevent the garage auto lights from operating for 5 minutes after you turn the garage lights off. Hope that helps -Xathros
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2486D LEDs
Princerichy- As Michel said above, secondary KPL buttons need to be placed in a scene and the scene used to turn them On/Off. Setting the backlight level (usually done on the primary node) affects the On and Off brightness levels for ALL buttons of the KPL. It does not turn on/off individual buttons - only sets the KPL's 2 brightness levels globally. -Xathros
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Thermostat advice - Insteon or Z-Wave?
Hybrid scenes (Zwave + Insteon) are not yet supported. UDI is working on this. -Xathros
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Insteon Camera and ISY
amp; is the URLEncoded form of & You should be able to replace "amp;" with "&" as long as you have the EncodeURL box checked. -Xathros
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Insteon Camera and ISY
Remove the colon from the end of the path line, increase the timeout to 1500. -Xathros
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All On/Off Scene 6 KPL
Anytime. Happy to help.
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All On/Off Scene 6 KPL
Add the KPL buttons A, B, C & D to this scene as responders too. Correct. Only the buttons are scene members here. This is the expected behavior. As expected under program control. There will be delays as the program executes and has to wait for insteon commands to process. The solution is in #1 above. Certainly possible to do exactly what you want. Hope this helps. -Xathros
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Insteon.jar blocked - No Admin Console
Your choices are: Add the ISY994 to the Java exception list as above or upgrade the firmware to 4.1.2 or higher. I would recommend not upgrading to 4.2.2 (current beta) and instead wait for 4.2.3 hopefully this weekend as there are a couple of known issues with 4.2.2. Adding the 994 to the exception list is probably the easiest thing to do for the moment. -Xathros
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Insteon.jar blocked - No Admin Console
Sorry. Assumed from Brian's post that it was a 99i. At least that gave a description of Why this happened. -Xathros
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Keypadlinc and LED bulb
I don't believe that any of the KPL's require a current through the load as all of them have a neutral wire unlike the 2 wire Switchlinc dimmers. The KPL is powered from line to neutral regardless of whether or not there is a load attached. There should be NO current passing through the ground wire! The KPL should operate just fine without the ground connected however this is against code for safety reasons. -Xathros
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Insteon.jar blocked - No Admin Console
Add ISY-99 to exception list with Java 1.7.51+ With the advent of Java 1.7.51 and up, Java applets are now required to contain a manifest file. Those that don’t are now not allowed to run unless you make a security exception for the applet. UDI has released newer firmware (4.1.2) that includes a manifest file and meets the new requirements. The ISY-99 series is not receiving firmware updates after firmware 3.3.10 as it has run out of room for the larger code in the newer firmwares. If you have decided not to upgrade to the ISY-994 series controllers, you will need to work around the new Java requirements and add an exception for your ISY-99i. Here is how to make that exception. MAC: Open System Preferences and double click the Java icon. In the Java preferences, click the security tab. Click “Edit Site List†Click “Add†and enter the URL for your ISY. Acknowledge the warning that this poses a security risk by clicking “Continue†Click “OK†then “OK†and close the Java preferences window. Windows: Open the Windows Control Panel Double click the Java control panel applet. Click the Security tab Click the “Edit Site List…†button. Click the “Add†button and enter the URL for your ISY-99i series controller. Click “OK†and close the Windows Control Panel†This should get you back up and running until you can upgrade to an ISY-994 and the newer firmware. -Xathros
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Damage to device doing too many queries?
Anytime. -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Garage Door not close for 30 minutes then email me
Some cfls have been problematic. Some only after they have aged for a while. Spme have been fine. Try unscrewing the garage cfls and test. -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Damage to device doing too many queries?
No problem in that respect. Only issue is increased traffic on the powerline. -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Need help...total noob here setting up ISY-994i PRO
What make/model is the door opener. I think that we need to verify that it can be operated with the IOLinc connected to the opener directly. -Xathros
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Garage Door not close for 30 minutes then email me
Simply unplugging suspect devices and testing will usually lead to identifying problem devices. Often however, it is a combination of several devices that add up to being a problem making items harder to identify. Noise filtering power strips, UPS's AV equipment, chargers etc are all likely culprits. Line of site distance in this case is meaningless. The IOLinc is powerline only device so RF distance means nothing here. What else is on the garage ceiling circuit? How far by wire is it from the PLM? Is it on the same electrical phase as the PLM? Do you have a phase bridge solution in place? Create the following query program and set it to run at startup. If Then repeat every 5 minutes Set 'Garage / Garage Door IOLinc - Sensor' Query Else No problem. As always, happy to help. -Xathros
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Program turns 1 light full, then dims same light
Since the hallway switch is the load control for the hallway light, anything that you do at that switch is going to affect the load, On, Fast On, Fade Up etc. To avoid that, we either have to take the load off of that switch and move it to something like a micro module or deal with this scenario programmaticly. One idea may be to use adjust scene to set the local onlevel of the hallway light to 20% between certain hours. Say 2 hrs after sunset to 1/2 before sunrise (next day). This way turning on the switch during these hours will only bring the hallway light up to 20% during the rest of the day, adjust to 100% or whatever level you like for daytime hours. Then have a program watch the hallway control during those hours and respond by bringing up the bathroom lights to 20% if the hallway is turned on between the dark hours. Have another program watch the hallway switch for fast off and turn off the bathroom scene when it sees a fast off from the hallway. This is not exactly what you wanted but close and does not require any additional hardware and avoids the hallway light getting brighter than 20% during the dark hours.. -Xathros