K-bert

Its a 500 series. And it is about to be retired. K

It is an ISY99i/IR PRO with the latest zwave board. Thanks for all the advice. Being prepared before the migration hopefully makes it smoother/quicker. I only have one battery powered zwave device: a Zooz 4 in 1 sensor in the bathroom. I have two Insteon leak sensors that are battery powered as well. K

Thank you. I missed the "restore the PLM" part. Now I am just waiting for things to arrive. K

I just pulled the trigger an ordered an EISY and Zmatter USB to replace my ISY994 with zwave. I have a a serial PLM for the ISY and a USB PLM from playing with a Raspberry Pi to control Insteon many years ago. I plan to use the USB PLM for the EISY. Will this cause an issue to restore my settings from a backup? Would it be better to use the serial PLM first to get things up and running and then change to the USB PLM? Thank you. K

I think I have also figured out why this device is listed in blue text in the admin console instead of red: I can not be used as a controller in a scene, only a responder. K-Bert

I have four z-wave devices in my network, three of them are Levitons. So far as I can tell the devices only sending a hail when their status has changed is a Leviton specific thing. I found the program I described on this forum after searching "Leviton device status not updating". K-Bert

Alright, well it took a lot longer to get to this than I thought it would. Life got a little busy. Anyway, I have it working now. I was watching the even viewer while physically turning the switch on and off. There was no indication in the viewer that anything was happening. Turning this switch on and off using the mobile app or the admin console still worked and the switch would report back when it was done being turned on, off, brightened, and dimmed. I tried playing with the z-wave options to get it to report when it had been turned on or off. Nothing seemed to work. So I removed it from the network (in admin console select remove device and then press and hold on for seven seconds on the switch until the light flashes yellow, release and tap on again). I then did a factory reset of the switch by holding on for fourteen seconds and releasing it after the light flashes yellow and red. I then added it back to the ISY, which is pretty much the same as removing it. I opened the event viewer and turned the switch on and off a few times and I was receiving the hail (looks like the picture you posted above). I had to delete and rewrite a program that is simply "If device is switched hail, then query device". It is now working as I would like it. Thank you! K-Bert

I am glad that I am not the only one with this issue. When I get a chance when I get home I will have a look at the event viewer and see if the ISY is receiving any hails. K-Bert

I have recently added three Leviton z-wave devices to my home. Two are on/off switches I am using for two of the bathroom fans and one is a dimmer for the great room. When I first installed them I had no problem adding them to my ISY or controlling them from the interface. I did find that if the switches were turned on or off at the switch their state was not reported in the admin console or on my phone app. I searched and found that these switches send a "hail" after a status change but don't report the actual change. In that topic it was suggest to write a program that would query the device after the ISY received a hail. This works fine for the on/off switches. However, the status of the dimmer is not changed unless I do a manual query. Looking at the program written to query this device shows that the program has not been run. The dimmer doesn't seem to be sending out a hail when it is manually turned on or off. Is there something I am missing? Should I look at the z-wave options for that device? One thing that I'm not sure means anything is in the admin console the dimmer is displayed with blue text and all the others, including the on/off switches are displayed with red text. For reference: my ISY is running firmware version v.5.3.4 and z-wave version 6.82.01 K-Bert

Well, I never did find a way to do this. The advice I received elsewhere told me to buy another controller and use that to program it and then put it back into my network. I'm not going to do that as it seems silly to me, but I have created a work around. I describe it below, probably a bit more detail than needed/wanted. I set up a state variable that is set to 1 when the humidity needs to be increased and 0 when it doesn't. This variable is set using the outside temperature and the reported inside humidity from the thermostat. There is a program that is activated when this variable is 1 that sets one of the Implant's outputs to on and turns on the furnace fan through the thermostat. I have another program that is activated when the Implant's output is on and the humidity variable is 0. This program then turns off the same output. So when a door is opened that output goes active and then the program deactivates it. This takes about two to three seconds. Not ideal as this would turn on the water solenoid to the humidifier every time a door is opened and then off again a few seconds later. As stated before the Implant outputs have a maximum rating or 20VAC and my humidifier uses 24VAC. I dug around in my electronics drawer and found just what I needed to fix both problems. I have a solid state relay that uses a 5VDC power and trigger signal. The contacts on the SSR can handle up to 240VAC. I am also using an Adafruit Trinket board. I would have used an ATiny, but this board has the 5VDC regulator that I am using to power the SSR already built in. I am using one pin on the Trinket as an input that is pulled high using the internal pull-up. This is connected to one of the outputs of the Implant. The other side of the output is connected to the Trinket ground. Another pin is connected to the input of the SSR. For testing I wrote a sketch that simply put 5VDC on the pin connected to the SSR when the pin connected to the Implant is grounded. This worked fine to turn on the humidifier. I wrote a second sketch that turns the Trinket into a state machine with three states. The first state is simply input and output inactive. When the input is activated it moves to the second state which is a waiting state. It waits for five seconds. If the input is deactivated at any point in this state the machine goes back to the first state. If the input remains active the machine enters the third state which activates the output and turns on the SSR. At any point in this state if the input is deactivated it returns to the first state. I mounted these parts inside a spare project box that is larger than it needs to be, but I mounted the original humidistat that came with the house onto it. This unit is simply set using a dial and when the humidity drops below the set point it closes its contacts. It is very inefficient as it does nothing to turn on the furnace fan. I am using a double pole double throw switch that allows me to switch control between the ISY via the Implant and the old humidistat. I don't foresee ever using the humidistat again but having a way to over ride it does increase the WAF. If anyone wants more details I would be happy to share them. K-Bert

This is my first z-wave device. I purchased it with the idea of using its two inputs on the alarm wiring to detect when the front and back doors to the house are open. I do not have an alarm installed but I have installed door sensors that are closed when the doors are closed. Adding the smart insert to the ISY was straightforward and several nodes appeared in the device tree on my admin console. I had no problem changing the Input 1 and 2 to Normally closed alarm input. The manual (https://manuals.fibaro.com/content/manuals/en/FGBS-222/FGBS-222-EN-T-v1.2.pdf) states that parameter 20 and 21 both need to be given a value of 0 for this behaviour. When I tried grounding the input to test it out two new nodes appeared in the device tree, both labelled at Intrusion Alarm 1 with different addresses. They both act how I would expect them to. I would like to use one of the outputs from this device to control the humidifier attached to the furnace. I can't control it directly as the humidifier uses 24VAC and the implant has a max rating of 20VAC, but that is an easy issue for me to solve with a simple circuit. The issue I have is right now the implant's outputs are directly tied to the inputs. Meaning that if an input is triggered the corresponding output is activated. As per the same manual linked above this can be changed by changing the Protection Command Class from Local State 0 to Local State 1. Doing some searching on the internet I have found that other home automation software can switch this with a GUI button and I have even found one that can do it using a script. My question is: does anybody know how to do it with the ISY? Thanks, K-bert

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Great info, thank you both! MrBill, I will likely follow your solution to add buttons to increase and decrease the lighting level from the remote when I have some free time. liliyoyo1 I followed your advice and it is already working. Thanks again! K-Bert

Thanks for the reply, Just so I understand: Trying to set the scene to 20% is no good. Instead create another scene (eg Bedroom_3_Dim) with both devices which is set to an on level of 20%. Then use the program to turn that scene on when the IR command is received? Thanks, K-Bert

So this isn't working as I would expect it to. Including the master bedroom my house has three bedrooms on the second floor. My son is using bedroom 2 and bedroom 3 is currently the TV room. I have a scene set up for bedroom 3 such that the dimmer and button B of the keypad in the master are linked. While watching TV I prefer to have the lights off and my wife prefers some light. So I have set up a program to turn the lights down (or on) to 20% when a button is pressed on the universal remote. This program works fine if I tell it to turn the device on to 20%, but this does not update the status of the light on the keypad in the master bedroom. So I tried changing to program to turn the scene on to 20%. This does not work. Every time I tried it simply turns the scene on to 100%. Attached are screen grabs of the programs. Anybody know what I am doing wrong? Thanks, K-Bert

I have the exact same thing with my ISY. Its been like that since I got it. It still works fine and since it is hidden in amongst the A/V rack I haven't really worried about it. K-Bert

Good day, I recently added an Insteon 2441TH thermostat to my house. When added three items showed up in the ISY device listing: Thermostat, heat control, and cool control. According to the manual (http://cache.insteon.com/documentation/2732-xx2-en.pdf) the thermostat should be able to control scenes for both humidification and de-humidification. I will be using an Insteon I/O to control the whole house humidifier on the furnace (currently wired up to a manual dial humidistat). Should I be seeing a humidity control as well? I am using an ISY 994i/IR PRO running firmware v.5.0.16C Thankyou K-Bert