Jimini

Thanks elvisimprsntr for the warning about running ISY on a UPS with the PLM necessarily off. I will avoid trying that out and deal with the complications of my power-loss program when an ISY reboot accompanies a temporary loss of power.

I have “Wait while busy reading” and “Query at Restart” both checked. I don’t have “Catch up schedules at restart” checked. But also, I have all my programs that I want to be free running set to auto start at startup. That is crucial, I believe.

I’m sorry that I can’t propose a fix for this problem but only to say that this hasn’t yet happened to me. My house power is now backed up with solar and Tesla batteries. We get a lot of power grid failures because our northern California public utility has spent decades pocketing cash instead of keeping their grid reliable. Most of the time, the Tesla system kicks in fast enough that ISY isn’t disturbed, but twice the switchover took enough time that ISY saw enough of a power cycle and rebooted. After the reboot, all was running as before. I didn’t know about this “Catch up schedules at restart” option. If you can tell me where you found this box to check or not check, I will look to see if I have mine checked. I have my house computer and router running off their own UPS, which existed before I added solar, and it switches much faster than the Tesla system saving those systems from rebooting. I haven’t yet connected ISY to that UPS because of power routing complications to where ISY is located and because I’m sure that the PLM that drives the Insteon signals can’t be filtered by a UPS. But I am going to separate out the power to ISY from the PLM power so that I can put ISY on the UPS. I added some circuitry to an Insteon IO Linc module to warn me when the grid is off, and the programing for that warning got overly complicated to handle grid loss with and without possible reboots. The program will be simpler and more rational if I can eliminate ISY reboots happening with grid power loss.

Once I clear the error message and launch the LAN console, everything appears to work correctly. I will assume that to be the case then until I find something going wrong or hear of an update. Thanks.

I am getting the same message with my ISY 994i. I don’t think there is any firmware update for ISY 994i. Am I use supposed to live with this error message that needs to be cleared?

Yes, I started getting this error message a week or so ago. Never got it before. Once I clear it with “OK” and load the LAN version of the console, everything seems to work OK. But I need to load the console in between repeated error messages since the console won’t load while the error message is still visible. I guess it’s just a bother to have to clear the message but I am concern that it means something else is not right.

I only have 8-button remotes so couldn’t say for sure but the suggestion to install the 8-button device was going to me my suggestion before I saw it given by someone else. Some changes like 6 to 8 can be painful.

That upgrade will have to wait until I have some time to work with it. I guess I’ll just leave what I have running until I can spend the time on the upgrade. Thanks for your help.

I have a 994i/IR PRO with the Z-wave module but I have never added any Z-wave devices. For the actual board number, I will have to look for that.

Thank you for the reply. Does that mean that my notifications from US Mobile will not work until I upgrade to EISY? I mean when I poke on notifications on the US Mobile app, I get this message that I need firmware version 5.6.2.

I found the announcement but I don’t see where to find the actual firmware upgrade file. I am looking for 5.6.2 (or is it now 5.6.4?) for the ISY not the EISY, please

I apologize for being an intermittent ISY jockey so don’t exercise my ISY often enough to keep all this current in my head. I’m getting a message from UD Mobile saying that I need to upgrade my firmware to 5.6.2, but I cannot find instructions on where to find the firmware file to install. I’m think that installing amounts finding the right file and opening it in response to the “manually upgrade ISY” command under the console help menu.

Sorry, I misunderstood the use of Group. So the Group and not the Device is used to limit who receives the notifications? And the device is not needed to be included in the body specification?

I have set up notifications with UD-Mobile. The setup directions were fairly easy to follow. I have notifications working and even have variable substitution working. Something I was not successful with using Pushover, probably my fault, I assume. I have one issue to solve before I can release this in place of text messages and Pushover. I have two iPhone, one for my wife and one for me. I set a different device name for each. They are listed under the same account. When I include "&device=DEVICE_NAME" in the body, my notifications still go to both phones. I then created a group, put both devices in the group, and included "&groupid=GROUP_NAME" along with one device name in the body. Again, my notification was sent to both phones. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Did I miss something in the setup? I need to have a way to send some notifications to only one of our two phones.

Thank you again for all the information and suggestions. It is clear now that I had no need to replace the ISY-Portal with the MobiLinc portal. Further, if I want to try the UD-Mobile, I think now I need to have the ISY-Portal. I will try to switch back to ISY-Portal both to consider UD-Mobile but also because I don’t know what other functionality I may have lost when I switched to MibiLinc. Thank you, Javi, for clarifying my misconception of the sautés of UD-Mobile. I have tried to run the U-Tube video that you pointed to for instructions on UD-Mobile setup, but the volume is so low that I can’t hear the verbal instructions. I have the volume of the vide and the volume of my computer at maximum. I can’t find any other volume control to turn up. Regarding the substitution of variable values with Pushover, I have looked a few times, based on several recommendations, at the Wiki for EMail and Networking Substitution Variables. This covers the form of inserting variable values with the essentially escape character “$” and variable id. I’ve tried inserting that in the network resources definition of a notification but it is basically ignored. The body of the resource definition for Pushover contains the name of each parameter prior to the parameter such as “title=“ or “message=“. It would seem that a similar parameter name must proceed the insertion of a variable to be substituted, but I don’t see any parameter in the Pushover description that would fit this use. I apparently still missing something to add.