johnmsch

Here's what I do. I have a switch on my garage door opener. When I go out of town, I turn the garage door opener off and leave through the front door. I have an "Away" folder that only runs when that switch is off.

Running Vista Ultimate and did the automatic upgrade through the admin console. Went very smooth!

Thanks everyone for the quick replies. I'm going to test this tonight.

I have the following program to turn some lights off at night: If Time is 12:22:00AM Then Wait 40 minutes (Random) Set 'Rec Room Track' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') I also have a program that turns the lights on to 90% just before sunset. If I go into that room, I manually flip the Insteon switch up, which brings the lights up to 100%. There are times when I'm in that room well past the time when the program turns the lights off. I want to modify the above program to only turn the lights off if they are NOT at 100%. However, when I go to add that condition, there is no option for 100%, so here is how the statement looks now: If Time is 12:22:00AM And Status 'Rec Room Track' is not On Then Wait 40 minutes (Random) Set 'Rec Room Track' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') So, does "On" equal 100%? It seems to me that this statement will be true no matter what the level is. Why isn't there an option for 100% in the drop-down list? Thanks

Sweet!

As a side question, is there a way to copy/paste code examples like this from the admin console?

Wow. Lots of great info and help here. Thanks everyone!

Are these dozen switches not installed? Did someone else install them? The new one would be installed like the others. Any (there may be an exception) insteon switch requires a line, neutral, and ground. If you intend to control a load with this switch, then you need access to the load's line and neutral connections. Pick a switch that suits your tastes. As suggested, you may consider a keypad. This would allow you to control up to eights scenes. Any insteon switch can act as a "master", including any of the twelve that you already have. All insteon switches have the ability to control a load. If controlling a load is not needed, cap it off as already suggested. Communication between devices is over the powerlines (some exceptions). You may need access points or some way to communicate between various phases of your electrical system. Yes, they are all installed and I did it myself. Used to have about a dozen X10s throughout the house. After some extensive remodeling, I'm down to 3 X10s. Just a matter of time before I replace them with Insteons, but as long as they work, I'll keep them around. Just to be sure I'm on the right track, this is the keypad I'm looking at:KeypadLinc - INSTEON 6 Button Keypad Controller. I'm assuming I could replace one of the light switches with this KeypadLinc. Then, I could program (in the ISY) for button "A" to turn on all three sets of lights, button "B" to turn off all but one, and button "C" to turn them all off? Thanks again for all the great advise!

Yes indeed! Been looking for an excuse to get one of those, and that's it! I can have one button to turn everything on, another to turn everything off, another to turn off all but one... This is gonna be fun! Thanks!!!!

Thanks again for all the great feedback. I've been reading more about setting up scenes in the ISY and this does look like the way to go. Now, what about the "master" switch that controls all the others? Can someone recommend a particular switch? I have about a dozen Insteon switches already, but wonder how I would wire this new one. Would I just cap off the (red?) wire that normally would go to the light?

Thanks for the links Rand. I'll check them out when I get back home tonight.

Thanks for the quick replies and great suggestions. I'm just not experienced enough with setting up scenes to have known this. Gives me something to work on. I believe there is a way to setup an Insteon switch to control other Insteon switches without using an ISY. However, this gives me a great opportunity to do my first real scene in the ISY. Up to now, all my switches are setup just to control one light. Thanks again

I recently installed Kaspersky 2010. Now that I think about it, I probably haven't been to the Admin Console since that install. After posting my question yesterday, I started searching around in this forum for "Kaspersky". I found the one thread that tells how to setup the exceptions. I did all that, rebooted everything but still can not see the status. That works! Any idea why the exceptions mentioned above don't work? Thanks again!!!!

Upgraded from 2.7.6 to 2.7.13 a couple days ago. I'm not able to see the status of any of my Insteon switches. When I go to the Admin Console, the "Current State" column is blank. I've cleared the Java cache both during the install and a few times after. I've rebooted the ISY-99 and my computer a couple of times also. When I hit the Query button at the bottom of the console, nothing happens. All the programs seem to be running fine. Any ideas what's wrong?

I have 3 sets of lights in my garage, each with its own Insteon switch, that I'd like to control from just one switch. I wanted to add a new switch, which would not be directly connected to any light, but when I turn it on, it would turn on the other 3 switches. Also, turning this one off would turn off all 3 switches. Ideally, I'd like it to turn off all but one of them. Seems like I've read about a setup like this some time ago. I was thinking that this would not even involve the ISY-99, but some kind of Insteon-to-Insteon configuration. Thanks for any tips/ideas!

I've been doing that a lot lately and haven't noticed any issues.

Thanks for the info. I do appreciate it.

Thanks Mike. Just to be sure I have this right, I took a program that turns a light on 2 hours before sunset, and merged it with one that turns that light off 2 hours after sunrise. Here's what I have now: If From Sunset - 2 hours To Sunrise + 2 hours (next day) Then Send X10 'J9/On (3)' Else Send X10 'J9/Off (11)' So, if I understand correctly, the "Then" clause will run at Sunset - 2 hours, and the "Else" clause will run 2 hours after sunrise the next day? I'd hate to look at the log and see that every few seconds the ISY is sending the same command (on or off), over and over again to the J9 X10!

New ISY-99i user here, and I have a very basic question about programming. For one of the lights I have, I setup two programs. One will turn the light on one hour before sunset, and another will turn it off one hour after sunrise. In going back through the User Guide, I found this sample program: If From Sunset + 20 minutes To 10:00:00PM (same day) Then Set Scene 'FrontDoor' On Else Set Scene 'FrontDoor' Off While this is a lot neater than having two separate programs, doesn't this method constantly send On or Off signals to that switch? Or does this program only run twice per day, once at Sunset + 20 minutes, and again at 10:00pm? Thanks

Thanks for the reply tahoe, but I think I found just what I need. In another thread here I found a reference to these: EZX10RF INSTEON / X10 Wireless Sensor Receiver X10 KR22A Credit Card controller Hopefully, this will do the trick. Now I need to figure out the programming. The way I want it to work is when I press a specific button on the remote, The EZX10RF sends a signal over the powerline that the ISY sees. That would kick off a program that turns on certain lights. Anyone know how this would work?

New ISY-99i user. I'd like to setup some kind of remote so that I can turn some lights on when I pull in the driveway, and turn them off when I leave. I'd like to use some kind of key FOB or small remote I can keep in the center console in my car. Can someone please recommend a remote and a receiver that would work with it? I think I can handle the programming on the ISY. Thanks

Thanks Michel.

Looking at my log, I found the following 4 lines: 0 null Thu 10/22/2009 10:52:48 AM System -5012 Office Off Thu 10/22/2009 10:53:00 AM Web Log 0 null Thu 10/22/2009 10:53:00 AM System -5012 0 null Thu 10/22/2009 10:53:00 AM System -5012 In the Wiki, -5012 says: UPNP SUBSCRIBER NOREPLY TO EVENT 1 subscriber didn't reply to the event:couldn't write header What does the 0/null represent?

Thanks for the quick reply. Any plans on doing the demo again some time soon?

Was this demo session recorded? I'm expecting my unit today and would love to watch the demo before I open the box!