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Hi Techman- Thanks for the response. Can I upgrade the Z-Wave communication device for the Polisy by using a 700 series Z-Wave USB dongle? Best Stew

Hi Michael- Thanks for the response. I am not sure what is meant by 'the Z-Wave menu'. The only message I received was 'Unable to communicate' upon starting the AC. If I am missing something, can you point me to 'the Z-Wave menu'? Best Stew

Stew Samuels Polisy - Z-Wave communication failures Firmware Polisy v 5.4.3 (2022-04-08} UI Polisy v 5.4.3 {2022-04-08| Product Polsy (5200) - Open ADR (21010) - Networking Module (21040) - Portal Integration (21075) - Z-Wave Module (21100) - A10/X10 Module (21060) Somfy Z-Wave to RTS interface Polisy was communicating flawlessly with 9 Somfy RTS shades. About a week ago I started seeing communication error messages when launching the AC with random shades – not all shades and not the same shades each time. Now I see errors for all the shades when I launch AC I have tried rebooting the Somfy Z-Wave interface and relaunching the AC which does not resolve the problem. I reboot the Polisy and relaunch the AC which DOES resolve the problem. Nothing in the environment has changed that should affect the Polisy --> Somfy RTS Interface --> RTS motor communication. It seems that the issue is the Polisy communicating with the Somfy RTS interface. Any thoughts on how to resolve this permanently? Thanks

Firmware Polisy v.5.4.1 (2022-03-08) UI Polisy v.5.4.1 (2022-03-08) Product Polisy (5200) - OpenADR (21010) - Networking Module (21040) - Portal Integration – UDI (21075) - Z-Wave (21100) - A10/X10 Module (21060) I have a question about setting the value of a State Variable in a program. State Variables: $MaxAirTemp_Today Node server: Aqualink Controller (the controller is online) – Air Temperature subnode I have two enabled programs: Program1 Content for 'AdjustAirTemp' If From 8:45:00AM To 9:45:00PM AND '12l29Td / POOL/ POOL' Air Temperature >= '$MaxAirTemp_Today Fahrenheit ' Then $MaxAirTemp_Today = '12l29Td / POOL/ POOL' Air Temperature 'F Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Program2 Content for ‘ResetAirTemp’ If Time is 10:25:00PM Then $MaxAirTemp_Today = 0 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Issue: Program1 does update $MaxAirTemp_Today Program2 when I select ‘Run Then’ or when the time condition is met does not update $MaxAirTemp_Today (The Summary tab indicates that Program2 did run. When I hit ‘Refresh Values’ on the State Variable tab, the value of $MaxAirTemp_Today is not 0) What am I doing wrong? (again) Thanks

Confession time. Yesterday I resolved my problem with having several keypads control a scene. This forum gave me several areas to review and ideas to try. Through this, I decided to take a new Insteon keypad and start from scratch. · All buttons were ‘non-toggle ON’ · Each button controlled a scene · I wanted each button backlight to be synchronized among the several switches for a visual indicator of what scene was ON and what scenes were OFF In each scene the one button on each keypad was the controller and the other buttons on the keypad were responders. When the controlling button sent an Insteon ON command, the other buttons responded to the scene by sending an Insteon OFF command. Everything worked perfectly. So, what was different about the other three keypads previously installed? Self-inflicted harm. When I added each of the non-working keypads to ISY AC, I assumed that the sequence they showed up in the MAIN tab was the sequence of the buttons on the keypad, e.g., xx.xx.xx 1, xx.xx.xx 2, xx.xx.xx. 3, etc. Even if this was the way the keypad was initially added to the AC MAIN tab, by the time I renamed each button, the sequence was out of order. So what I had thought was xx.xx.xx 1 was actually xx.xx.xx 4 and so on. Once I realized this and looked at the button address carefully in the right panel of the MAIN tab, renamed each button correctly and then corrected each button’s use in the scene (correct controller, correct responders) – everything was perfect. Hopefully my idiocy will help some other newbie avoid or solve a similar problem with multiple keypads controlling scenes. Thanks again to the forum for their time and expertise.

Back at the onion. My ISY Portal --> Select Tool --> Information --> ISY Portal Access License shows two entries (see screenshot attached). I recently migrated from ISY994 to Polisy. When ISY Finder is displayed I have two Polisy entries: · One local on my LAN – This works perfectly · One ‘cloud’ with a my.isy.io URL – On this one when I launch Admin Console (Cloud), It Initializes, then gets stuck on ‘Starting Subscription’ I am inferring that the Cloud AC cannot successfully connect to Polyglot that is now on my Polisy - But this is a guess. Appreciate any ideas.

Hard Stop! My bad. I added the incorrect NodeServer to Polyglot V2. I incorrectly added Autelis-Jandy. I correctly added Jandy_iAqualink and have my sub-nodes in Polisy. Very sorry for the drill. Self-inflicted harm is the worst. Thanks

I forgot one file. This is the Polyglot log file when I stop the A-J NodeServer and restart it. Thanks Autelis-Jandy Log File Stop then Start20220226.140848.txt

Back at the onion. Polyglot V2 successfully connected to my Polisy. Added Autelis-Jandy NodeServer to Polyglot, slot #1 Specified userid, password and sessionTTL Polyglot shows NodeServer ‘Connected’ NodeServer Node Details – See image attached Polisy Jandy-iAqualink (I renamed it this) Node in Main (n001_Controller – Pool Controller) show NodeServer Online = TRUE, but all other sections of the display are blank – See image attached Polisy à Node Servers à Autelis-Jandy à Add All Nodes seemingly does nothing Previously on my ISY994i I had this NodeServer connected successfully and was able to control all my Jandy iAqualink functions. Thanks

Thank you dbwarner5. Once again the forum has saved my bacon. Both your solutions worked. Have a great Saturday

Where I am: · Setup Polisy · Restored ISY backup from ISY994i · Updated Polisy firmware to v.5.3.0 All of my Insteon nodes are present and functional With the help of the forum, I was able to access Polyglot V3 & Polyglot V2 running on Polisy. I am attempting to register the node servers I had when using ISY994 & Polyglot cloud. In Polyglot V2 NodeServers à Add NodeServer the first available NodeServer is my Autelis-Jandy that I had previously on my ISY994. I select: Node Server Type – Local (Co-resident with Polyglot) Available Node Servers – Autelis-Jandy Available Node Server Slot – 1 (There are no NodeServers in my AC on the new Polisy) When I select Submit, I get the Add NodeServer message. When I select Confirm I get an error message – “ISY not connected to Polyglot. Can’t add NodeServers.” The status box in the Register New NodeServer screen shows “ISY Version: 0.0.0” “Uptime 3Day(s) 20 Hour(s) 43 Minutes… etc. and is incrementing” See Screenshot attached. Suggestions for the next layer of this onion? Thanks, as always.

I am in to PG3 - Thank you very much. I will take the next onion layers tomorrow. Best Stew

Peeling away the onion... I successfully upgraded FreeBSD Polisy, however the command: sudo service pg3 stop threw an error FreeBSD polisy 13.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p6 #16 releng/13.0-n244774-b 0c8bc5d9cd: Wed Jan 12 18:39:31 UTC 2022 ec2-user@bsdev.isy.io:/usr/obj/usr/ src/amd64.amd64/sys/POLISY amd64 [admin@polisy ~]$ sudo service pg3 stop pg3 does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup directories (/usr/local/etc/rc.d), or is not executable [admin@polisy ~]$ What is my next layer of the onion? Thanks, I appreciate everyone's help

The Polisy's response to sudo uname -a is: FreeBSD polisy 13.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p5 #15 Date is Mon Dec 12 Not P6 and not January Do I need to do anything before I attempt the other TTY commands?

Thanks mwester - You 'da MAN! That worked. Have a great week and thank you

Hi tmorse305- Thanks. No love with login: admin@192.168.1.50 and password: admin I had previously changed my Polisy userid to SESamuels and password for the 'Admin user' (File --> Set Userid/Password I also tried to login: SESamuels@192.168.1.50 and used my new password but got the same refusal response. What can I try next?

Thank you Geddy for the quick response. First I need help getting into the Policy via PuTTY SSH - I downloaded Putty and on the Putty configuration page I enter the IP address of my Polisy. When I hit OPEN it brings up a ''cmd" looking window named 192.168.1.50 - PuTTY (this is the correct address of my Polisy. The prompt is: "login as:" I enter "admin@192.168.1.50" and am prompted for "Password for admin@192.168.1.50@polisy" I had changed my user id and password for the Polisy and when I enter my admin password, I get the response: "End of keyboard-interactive prompts from server - Access denied". Same result if I enter 'admin' as the Password. I did check the link to the Polisy User Guide but could not locate any instructions on how to use PuTTY to connect to my Polisy. Any ideas?

Where I am: · Setup Polisy · Restored ISY backup from ISY994i · Updated Polisy firmware to v.5.3.0 · Polyglot subscription is associated with my Polisy All of my Insteon nodes are present and functional Status - See image attached First issue: When using ISY launcher and selecting Polyglot V3 (PG3), Chrome attempts to connect to: 192.168.1.50:3000 and returns “This site can’t be reached”,“192.168.1.50 refused to connect”. I presume I should be using PG3 to add nodes to Polyglot on Polisy and NOT Polyglot V2 (Deprecated), is this correct? Thanks for any help

Thanks oberck- Three event view files attached: First is KP1_A - this one works correctly to launch the scene Second is KP2_A - event viewer shows ON command received by the ISY. Scene does not trigger Third is KP3_A - event viewer shows ON command received by the ISY. Scene does not trigger Peeling away the onion.... Keypad2_ButtonAPress.txt Keypad1_ButtonAPress.txt Keypad3_ButtonAPress.txt

Thanks oberck- I will be out of town for a couple of weeks. But, I am taking your advice and need to become more accomplished at reading and interpreting the Insteon commands in the event log. I do have the Insteon Developers document with all of the detailed Insteon codes (previously I used these when I programmed my Crestron control system). BTW: if the forum would like this document, just let me know. When I return home I will dig into my keypad issue further and update this thread. Once again, thanks to everyone for their time and expertise.

Thanks oberkc for the response. Each button on KP1, KP2 & KP3 are setup as 'Non-Toggle [ON]' I changed all links on red link buttons to 'KEYPInsteon' The A Buttons on KP2 & KP3 do blink when they are pressed. BTW: What is the difference between a command link type vs an Insteon link type? Thanks again

Thanks MrBill- For my Scene#1 (Kitchen COOK-A) each Button A of Keypad1, Keypad2 & Keypad3 are red links - see 'RootScene' attached. For each of these red link buttons, I have set the configuration for the lights and other buttons - see KP1, KP2 & KP3 attached. I have also attached a photo of the root for Scene#1. Each of the A Buttons was added to the Scene as a Controller - I infer the red link indicates this. I think I have set this up as you described, but Button A only works on KP1. What am I missing? Thanks again 20220117Root_Scene#1.pdf 20220117_KP1.pdf 20220117_KP2.pdf 20220117_KP3.pdf

Thanks to everyone for their time and thoughts.. Some questions I can answer: · Button A Keypad2 is a RED link · Each red link and Root have been configured individually (See images attached) (BTW there is a third 6 button keypad in the scene, but same issue) · Each keypad is a 6 button keypad · Here is what happens when Button A is pressed on each Keypad – Between each Keypad test, the scene is turned off on by pressing ‘D’ on Keypad1 and Keypad Button Illuminations are cleared on Keypad 2 & Keypad3 by pressing the OFF button on each. KEYPAD1 – Press Button A Does Scene execute? Keypad1 button illuminated? Keypad2 button illuminated? Keypad3 button illuminated? Press Button A YES Illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button B Status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button C status NOT illuminated Illuminated Illuminated Button D status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated KEYPAD2 – Press Button A Does Scene execute? Keypad1 button illuminated? Keypad2 button illuminated? Keypad3 button illuminated? Press Button A NO NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button B Status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button C status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button D status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated KEYPAD3 – Press Button A Does Scene execute? Keypad1 button illuminated? Keypad2 button illuminated? Keypad3 button illuminated? Press Button A NO NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button B Status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button C status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Button D status NOT illuminated NOT illuminated NOT illuminated Keypad1 is working as expected with regard to Scene#1 and button illumination. Does the fact that when Button A on Keypad1 is pressed and Scene#1 is executed, that Button C on Keypad2 and Keypad3 are illuminated provide any clue to my problem? Again, thanks for everyone’s time. I am learning. Scene#1 Keypad3 settings.pdf Scene#1 ROOT Settings.pdf Scene#1 Keypad1 settings.pdf Scene#1 Keypad2 settings.pdf

Thanks lilyoyo1 for the response. A couple of thoughts: · Toggle Mode – I purposefully used non-toggle so that Button A would set the lights a one level, Button B would set the same lights at a different level, Button C another level and Button D would turn all the lights OFF. If using Toggle mode is the only solution to using two keypads to control one Scene, then I am willing to try this. · Multiple Scenes for each Keypad Button A – I wish there were some way to ‘copy’ and edit a Scene before each Insteon device’ link table is updated, e.g. Two Scenes, same responders, one Scene for Button A Keypad1 and one scene for Button A keypad2. As far as I know, if I wanted four keypad Button A’s to control the same lights, I would need to add each light to four scenes and assign one button on each keypad as the controller to each scene. Huge amount of work and it I add a device to be controlled, I would need to update each scene. So, my question is – Should each keypad in non-toggle mode, where Button A is a controller for Scene#1 turn Scene#1 on? This is not happening at this time. If this is a viable solution, I would like to take this approach for the reasons above. Any advice? And thanks again for the response

Sorry for my delay in responding. Thanks for your responses. Attached is the AC element list for Scene#1 · The responder levels for all of the controller buttons is “ON” - Button A for both Keypad1 & Keypad2 are controllers of Scene#1 · Buttons B, C & D in both keypads are set to turn OFF when Scene#1 is ON · Button A Keypad1 does not cause anything to happen to the Keypad2 buttons. · Scene#1 causes all kitchen lights to turn on 100%. · Pressing Button A Keypad1 causes: o All kitchen lights to turn on and Button A is illuminated o Buttons B, C & D Keypad1 are not illuminated (This is what I want to happen on Keypad2 o Buttons A, B & C on Keypad1 are illuminated · After turning Scene#1 OFF in ISY AC o All Buttons on Keypad1 and Keypad2 are not illuminated (This is what I want) o Pressing Button A Keypad2 § Does not turn Scene#1 ON (All kitchen lights ON 100%) § No buttons on Keypad1 or Keypad2 are illuminated Scene#1 settings20220114.pdf