K-bert

I just installed the Ring plugin into Polyglot. I am running PG3x Version 3.2.17 and IoX v.5.8.0 on my EISY. I authenticated the plugin and that seemed to work fine. I was then able to bring the Ring node into my EISY. I clicked on the "Test Ring" and the result is "Success". I now have Ring in the drop downs on the left side of the Admin Console with Front Door and Front Door (Motion) under it. So far I think I've done everything right. Under Front Door I have the Status listed as "online". I do not have any battery life of mV information, but I also don't expect any as this is a wired device powered by my homes original 24V transformer. Is my expectation true or should I be seeing the voltage that the Ring is receiving? I also wanted to run a program to turn the porch lights on when motion is detected. I previously had this working through IFTTT, but it was a bit clumsy and had to be restarted from time to time. Originally I had a state variable that was set to 1 by IFTTT and a program that turned on the lights and then set the variable back to 0 after a delay. I wanted to modify this program and add the Ring Motion from the node to directly control the program. However, I can't find anything about "Front Door (Motion)" in the drop downs for status in the IF part of the program. I went back to the Main tab and Front Door (Motion) has nothing in it other than the name and the address. I also noticed that I don't have anything tell me that someone has rung the bell. Does the doorbell need to be rung or detect motion before the needed information is populated in IoX? I am remotely working on my EISY so I can't go ring the bell or walk in front of it. Thanks for any information! K

Thank you both Geddy and kzboray! It's working again. K-Bert

I only just managed to give this a try, it did not work. Trying to log into https://eisy.local:3000 came back with "not found". K-Bert

Thank you, I will give it a try. K-Bert

That is disappointing. I guess I will switch to using an Instion I/O garage kit for monitoring the door and wire up the second remote to operate the door. K-Bert

I have an EISY running firmware v.5.7.0 with PG3x Version 3.2.15. All but one of the nodes I have installed are running just fine. I have the MyQ node that is no longer getting the proper status of the garage door opener. I looked and noticed that I am behind one version of this node. So I decided to upgrade to the newest version before trying anything else. However, if I click on the "Plugins Store" the drop down box that allows you to select "Production Store" and "Non-production Store" is blank. Clicking on the box does show the two options and the green box that says "Settings saved successfully" shows up and then goes away as it is supposed to, but this is all that happens. I get the message "Getting installable Plugin list from Polyglot Store. Standby...". Nothing else happens. I have left it for hours to see if it will update, but it does not. If I click on "Purchases" I get the green text boxes that say "Checking for Purchases. Please Wait..." and "Refreshed Plugins List from Server." and the message on screen saying "Getting list of purchases from UDI Portal. Standby...", but again nothing further happens. Does anyone have any ideas I should try before submitting a ticket? K-Bert

Years ago I replaced all the standard light bulbs in my house with LED light bulbs. Even though they are dim-able they struggle at low brightness causing them to flicker. I know Insteon sold capacitors to solve this. Recently I have had a handful of bulbs fail and need to replace them. I was wondering if someone had any recommendations for LED light bulbs that handle dimming better than others. K-Bert

I only have one meter connected to the main panel and then a sub panel connected to the main panel. The units arrived this morning. I was intending to put micro module in the motion light first. Unfortunately there was no space behind the fixture to fit the module. I will need to use either a different housing or a box extension. I did install the switch in the garage. I added the switch in the EISY using the device address and the EISY discovered it almost immediately. I added it to a scene with a button on a six button keypad and it worked right away. There are no issues communicating with the switch in the garage. Thanks for the replies! Looks like the switch is talking through the power lines just fine.

The tap test works fine in the house. I have enough dual band devices that both sides of the breaker panel are bridged. The garage sub-panel is 220V. However, all the lights are on one breaker and I don't plan on adding anything other than light control. So I may be relying on RF from the micro module in the motion light on the back porch to talk to the switch in the garage. I was hoping that I would get some communication through the neutral line from the main panel to the garage. For now I will wait and see what happens when the switch arrives and I install it.

Thanks! That is encouraging. All my Insteon devices, with the exception of battery powered devices and the thermostat, are dual band. Hopefully I will know by the end of the week.

I recently had a garage built behind my house. It is only about thirty five feet between the buildings. The garage has a 50A sub-panel installed connected to the main panel in the house. I have some lights on the outside of the garage I want to control by using Insteon switches. Specifically I will be using a micro ON/OFF module in a motion light on the back of the house to also turn on the lights on the outside of the garage. Items have been ordered, but haven't arrived yet. My question is: will Insteon communicate over the neutral line to the garage or will I be relying solely on the RF function of the devices? Thanks!

There isn't. I have just run through and checked every email my EISY is set up to send me and they all work now that I have cleared the "From" parametre and left it default. K

Well, some good news: As I mentioned before during a remote session UD support discovered my mail was timing out. Switching ports and cables on my router did not fix it. When I attempted to switch to wifi it would not connect. I was given a slightly different method to connect to wifi (press power button twice when starting and not when UD mobile tells me to). This worked. Now the email test works! And some of my programs that send emails work. I suspect I might be running into some of the issues GJ Software Products described. I will do some more testing tomorrow. K

Final update: Ticket has been closed and I am told that the information need to resolve this problem. The fix will be provided in a future update. K

I would use a static IP in the router. That is how I had set up the ISY. I havent set up anything for a static IP for the EISY yet. I would like to sort out the problem I currently have first. K

I had the ISY set to a static IP. I haven't done that yet foe the EISY. My router updated its firmware and rebooted at one in the morning. I can find the EISY in the IoX finder again. Email still doesn't work. I will try setting up a wireless connection tomorrow as I was instructed by UD support. If that doesn't work I'm fairly certain I will have another remote session on Monday. K

I had logged into my router and used the IP that it listed for the EISY after switching cables/ports.

Well, I gave swapping the port and cable a try when I got home. The original configuration was ISP-Router-Switch-EISY. It is now ISP-Router-EISY. I'm afraid things got worse. Now the IoX finder can't see the EISY. I still have access through portal and on my phone though. Giving up for the night. K EDIT: I should add, entering the address the router gave it comes back with "invalid url".

I am using the same cable that was connected to the ISY994, I just swapped it over. I have a pile of cables at home so I will swap them as well as use a different port. I will also try wifi. Should have more info after Monday. K

UD support has been remote logged into my computer playing with my EISY. Looks like we now know what the problem is, just not why. The EISY is timing out when trying to send an email. The EISY is connected to my network through an ethernet cable yet the upload speed seems to be too slow. Looks like it isn't the EISY, but the cause isn't yet know. Next steps is to try a different port on the router/switch. Since I was not at home for the remote session this hasn't yet been done. We tried to get it to talk over wifi, but it wouldn't switch from cabled to wifi remotely for some reason. After about an hour we had to give up for today. We will try again on Monday. I have to say that I really appreciate that they are willing to spend this time to try and troubleshoot remotely like this. K

I have submitted a ticket. After some back and forth there have been no changes in behaviour. K

I have several programs that send emails. None of them are working. It is actually how I found out that this wasn't working. K

I did follow those instructions and I am using a google generated password for an app. I tried filling out the "From" field. No change. K

Ok, things are a little weird. I ended up rebooting my EISY. When it powered up I received an email telling me that someone has turned on the thermostat in the house. There is a program I have running that does do this if the thermostat is set to off and then turned on to heat. This program always emailed me after every reboot of the ISY. Now I received it from the EISY. I tried it with the both "use default" and the setup from above. Both worked. However, running a test email after that fails. I received a slightly different error message this time. EDIT: If I leave it as default the email is send by alerts@universal-devices.com and if I have the gmail account in there it is send by the google account I put in. This is expected behaviour, but it refuses to send any emails beyond that. Even if I try to run the same program to send the same message again.