Xathros

If you have a use for all the extras then its just fine. I use an Apple Airport extreme to hose NAS like this will do but that isn't my gateway, just another access point. If you don't plan to host NAS or a printer from the gateway then this: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-E1200-Links ... ds=linksys is the same router without the extras. Either of these should eliminate the router as the problem in your HA project. -Xathros

I've never hear of that brand/model before. I use Linksys or Cisco products for most gateway applications. I have a number of customers that use D-Link or Netgear. I have had issues with the D-Link stuff too many times but the newer crop of Netgear stuff seems workable. If I had to choose a consumer grade gateway today it would be either a Linksys N Class or Netgear N Class Router/AP. My absolute favorite, though not for wireless, is a Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT firmware. Very configurable, predictable and reliable but limited to G class wireless. I am in the process of building a headless MicroATX system that will run the i386 version of DD-WRT on a low end P4 based system. Overkill for the average homeowner but will give me a lot more horsepower to work with and I have some plans for the extra capabilities. (Content filtering at the gateway among other things) In my opinion, the gateway is not the point in the network to try and save a few bucks with cheapo hardware. -Xathros

I use my RL2 without including it in scenes. I trap for button presses (if RL2.A On or RL2.A Off) and do what needs to be done by program rather than scene. This way I don't need to worry about the toggled state of any of the RL2 buttons when they are used in combination with other controllers. So no, you don't need to have the RL buttons in scenes but you DO need to do everything at the ISY rather than direct linking outside of the ISY. -Xathros

How about this for the lighting: Split the scene into 2 scenes with the stuff that changes based on time of day in one and the rest in another. Remove the controllers from the scene(s) and add back as responders if necessary (Switch with load attached). Create 3 programs. One will adjust the changing scene on levels based on time of day. The other will turn on both scenes when the controller(s) say On and the third will turn off one or both scenes depending on time of day when the controller(s) say off. Maybe a fourth program to watch for fastoff at the controller(s) to turn off both regardless of time. As for the fan, remove it from the scene(s) and just run it via a program that monitors the appropriate controller(s). Fan Prog 1 If control MainBathFanSWL is switched On then Set MainBathFanILR On Else Fan Prog2 If status MainBathFanILR is on then repeat every 60 $s.fandelay += 1 else Fan Prog 3 If status MainBathFanSWL is switched Off and $s.fandelay is > 0 Then wait 90 $s.fandelay -= 1 Else Set MainBathFanILR off $s.fandelay is a state variable. This will keep the fan on for an additional 1.5 mins for every minute the fan was turned on at the switch. This is how I would approach this one anyway. HTH -Xathros

Does the jacuzzi have any electronic controls that may have a transformer/power supply generating noise ? Possibly a big noise filter to filter out noise from the pump also sucking Insteon ? Is it hard wired or can it be unplugged to see if its that or something else on the line ? -Xathros

jmed999- Right click the program and select "Run Then". Lets see if you get the text then. If not, we need to look at the customized message that your sending. Its possible you haven't specified a subject and/or body in which case the message may be getting rejected by the SMTP server. -Xathros

Do the outdoor lights have motion detectors on them ? If so, is there a switch to turn them off ? -Xathros

Just to be clear: the connection between the ISY and the PLM is NOT ethernet but rather serial. This has a limited length and CANNOT be connected via a switch/router. -Xathros

I feel that the more options we have, the better. There are already a few iOS apps out there now though none are free. I use Mobilinc which IS a paid app. I feel that I got my money's worth out of it's functionality and there is very little I haven't been able to accomplish with it. Again, I'm all for inexpensive/free options and I for one will be happy to look at and test whatever you come up with. -Xathros

MS Excel Viewer - Free from MS OpenOfice - Free from Sun StarOffice - Free LibreOffice - Free Any of the above should get you going in either Excel or CSV/txt formats. -Xathros

Exten- While your program is valid, I'm not sure what it's use case would be. You can simply query the current status of the coffee pot to tell if its on or off. All the var will tell you is if it was on or off before a system reboot. Useful for turning it back on after a power failure if it was on before but thats about it as far as I can see. The init value of a variable is the value it will initially be on startup. Changing the value of the var after that point will NOT change the init value unless you specifically change the the init as well. On a dimmer device, testing for Not On or Not Off makes sense since it can be somewhere in between. So "Not Off" means somewhere between 1 and 100% and "Not On" means somewhere between 0 and 99%. A relay device is either on or off with no in between and a not responding device is neither On nor Off. -Xathros

Corey- What I would do is use WireShark on a MAC or PC to sniff the traffic coming from rule to the receiver. As long as the connection from rule to the receiver is not encrypted (https), you can examine the content of that conversation and build your network resource from that. -Xathros

To the button terminals on the motor in parallel with the button. -Xathros

I'll have to try replacing the supply at one of my problem locations with a good regulated supply and see if things change. Very likely that the little wall warts are not capable of filtering minor line disturbances like a good supply. -Xathros

Thanks! I like the IFTTT. Now I just need to figure out if I have a use for it or not. I'd actually prefer to use the ISY for this sort of thing rather than involving a third party to tie "My" things together but it does look like a cool solution! -Xathros

No. Nether State or Integer variables will survive a reboot but, you can fix that easily as follows: If Then $s.MyVariable = 1 $s.Myvariable Init To $s.MyVariable Else Setting the init value to the current value ensures that the variable will still contain this value after reboot. Just remember to set the init everytime you change the value. -Xathros

Thank you! Like you, I hardly ever need to reboot my modem/router. I have quite a few clients however that have to reboot DSL modems to get back online once in a while and I attribute that to the ISP not their modems. In one vacation home, I installed a mechanical timer switch on the modem/router to power down/up once a day just in case. This means about 15 mins of downtime everyday but its usually in the wee hours of the morning unless there has been a power outage to throw off the timer. When I come across one of these where I have an ISY installed, I will be using the ISY to monitor and reset. -Xathros

Tim- Thank you for testing. Its not so much the ISP I was worried about as your router attempting to be helpful and caching DNS when we don't want it to. -Xathros

Add me to the list of noisemakers then! -Xathros

Solution: Buy a cheap linksys or netgear router place it between the actiontec crap and your network, Call your ISP and ask them to "Bridge the Router" which makes their router just a modem (no NAT translation and only the external IP address issued via DHCP to your new router's wan port) and use your new router to do the rest. -Xathros

Michel- I'm not seeing the possibility for a loop/race condition here. Based on my example above, do you see any issues ? -Xathros

Michel- So far so good. I have the following resource rule that will set iVar 37 (i.InternetTest) to 1 when called: So here is how it works: TestInternetAccess If $s.InternetTestEnabled is 1 Then Repeat Every 30 minutes $i.InternetTest = 0 Resource 'SetInternetTestTo1' Wait 5 seconds Run Program 'CheckInternetTest' (If) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') When s.InternetTestEnabled is 1, this program will first set i.InternetTest to 0 then attempt to set i.InternetTest to 1 via a rest call to the ISY's DyNDNS address. If successful, then internet access is available, if failed then execute a program to power cycle network equipment. CheckInternetTest If $i.InternetTest is 1 Then - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') <> Else <> <> So far I have tested this remotely and it seems to work. I need to test again this evening when I get home to see it it shows fail when I take my cable modem offline. (Can't do that remotely...) Things to consider: You must have the Network Resources Module. ISY MUST be accessible via a DomainName or DynDNS Name. ISY Should use Internet based DNS server in static settings rather than your Router/Gateway's DNS Cache. This ensures that the ISY actually needs to go out to the Internet to find itself based on your domain name/DynDNS address since many routers will cache DNS and resolve their external IP to their internal IP, you may get a successful test when the modem is actually offline. I will follow up on this tonight or tomorrow with my final test results. EDIT: My testing last night shows this method to work. I'm not set up with my network equipment on an Insteon switch and probably won't bother with that as I hardly ever need to reboot that stuff but my cable goes offline once a month or so (upstream) so I am monitoring my uplink and sent out a notification on Internet restored. -Xathros

Why YES! There is! See: http://www.universal-devices.com/mwiki/index.php?title=ISY-99i_Series_INSTEON:REST_Interface -Xathros

Brian- See: http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6981 This uses network resources to send direct to the prowl server and this way you can specify priority. I just finished moving all my high priority notifications to this method. -Xathros

The point of doing it this way is to send direct to the prowl server without the need for an intermediate SMTP server. Fewer points of failure this way. Downside is since we cant use variables in the network resource module, we need to create numerous resource rules to cover what a variable could do in an email notification. I just finished converting all of my High Priority/Emergency notifications to resource rules that include the priority parameter=2 so that I can take advantage of the Quiet hours feature in prowl and mute the low priority notifications when sleeping and still have emergency notifications make sound. The rest of my low priority notifications are still using the email to prowl method and arrive as "Normal / 0" priority. -Xathros