MarkJames

Well - that would be kind of mean. Leaving new owners with a problem that I know about. I wouldn't feel right doing that.

They are the same - yes. But that's not going to help long term if they cease production

As many have pointed out Insteon products seem to be done. I understand that the line is being picked up by Nokia but not all devices will still be available. I have a fairly large installation. Probably 80-100 Insteon devices. Many of my lights depend on Insteon control. This change in availability of Insteon products couldn't come at a worse time for me. I'm getting ready to sell my home and I have a couple of devices that are not working and I can't find replacements for - an 8 button and a 6 button Keypadlinc to be exact. I'm wandering around looking for KPL's that I can burgle from one location that I don't use as much to ones that I use a lot. I guess I'm going to have to move to a different technology to make things work again. I'm okay with moving to Polisy from my current 994 if that's what it takes. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start replacing some of my failed Insteon with something that I can integrate with or without PolIsy? Thanks

All changed over successfully. When adding it ISY identified it as an 8 button even though I had changed it but it correctly recognized 6 buttons. So all is well. Thanks everyone, for the help. mark

That should have been my next question - what would ISY recognize it as. I guess you're saying that it sends a different ID depending on how it's configured. It would be a lot more convenient to have it just be recognized as a 6 so that I can directly replace it in ISY. Thanks again. [edit above] in my previous post I wrote that 3 ISY devices had failed. I meant to say '3 Insteon devices had failed'

Thank you - will give it a try. The new ones don't come with a manual the way the old ones did and I wasn't clear on whether the old steps would still work. Will give it a go. For some reason I had 3 ISY devices fail in the last month - things had been going along pretty good for a year or two with no failures so this caught me off guard.

Admittedly I'm being lazy here but often there is nuance in these devices so I'm asking. When I first started using KPL's you could convert them between 6 and 8 button. They've stopped coming with both plates now and are sold separately. I have an older 6 button that has failed. I have a new in box 8 button that I'd like to replace it with. I wouldn't care about the extra buttons except for that I had engraved custom buttons made for the 6 that won't fit the 8. Does anyone know if it's still possible to convert an 8 to a 6 programmatically? Or has that been discontinued? Thanks

That seems possible too. It's the response I always get, though, and I have some 27 network resources that I test out all the time. One would think that I'd get variations of HT, HTT, and all sorts of truncated responses if that was what was happening. But it's always just HT. It doesn't bother me - it works fine. I have a 1500ms timeout - which I thought was excessive. Do you think upping it even higher might get the rest of the response?

Not sure.... I only send network resources to tasker via autoremote and I've only ever received the HT response. I have nothing to compare it to

You got it. My network resources temporarily stopped working so I went in to the configuration screen and tested the one that I was suspicious of. A normal response looks like this but for a few hours I was getting that other message instead of the HT message. I was getting it with every resource, not just the one I was looking into. I rebooted the ISY and my laptop as well but it persisted. A few hours later it went back to normal. I think the website that the resources were being sent to had some issues.

Funny - when I get that message I don't get success. The message doesn't get sent - or at least it doesn't get received at the other end. When I get nothing but an 'HT' then I get success. This error message went away after a short time. I had searched it out but only found references to Cross Origin Resource sharing and that's above my paygrade. I speculated that it was a problem with the receiving web page.

I started getting this when I send network resources HTTP/1.1 200 OK Access-Control-Al

So if I send myself an elk variable using an email customization it works fine. Something like ${elk.zone.1.name} - I can send that to myself with no problem But if I send the same thing via network resource it fails with a 400 error. I can send ${var.1.1} but if I send ${elk.zone.1.name} I get a Net Module Rule 400 error. Any idea why? To send variables I have to leave URL encoding off. If I turn it on then it sends the text ${var.1.1} instead of the value of ${var.1.1}

Ticket submitted. Thanks

My issue with google home has been going on for weeks.

Thanks - I'll go check it out.

This message has been driving me mental. It started about a month ago. My ISY is linked to my portal account fine. I've unlinked and relinked Universal Devices to my Google Home account any number of times. I've restarted my google home devices multiple times. I've confirmed that they're connected to the web just fine. Yet whenever I turn a device on or off it does, indeed, turn on/off but I also get the voice message 'Sorry, it looks like Universal Devices is unavailable right now' Any suggestions how to get rid of this?

I'm in Canada so unless you got it from Aartech then nope. I got a new M1XEP today that it turns out I didn't need. Gotta ship that back. Got a new switchlinc today to fix a failed one and when I went to do that I realized it was on a light I seldom use so I just put a regular switch on it. I'm looking at some $400 in parts I have no use for lol. Aartech is usually good to deal with but I'm gonna have to pay to ship it back. mark

That seems reasonable. I have a brand new switchlinc and it's number is 4118 - 41st week of 2018 I suppose. I looked and I have a brand new KPL I have yet to install from some time ago - still in the box labeled 4216 - so 42nd week of 2016. Thanks - that seems to fit. mark

As I replace some of my original switches that have failed I find myself wondering just how old they are. I've had Insteon in the house for some 15 or more years. I removed one today that is a Switchlinc V2 #2476D. There is a small number on the label that says 0713 under the 2476D designation. There's another sticker that says V3.1 00618 and the insteon address on it is 0A.54.08 Is there a way to determine how old this is? Thanks!

Thanks. I already went ahead and got the ecobee. I'm pretty happy with it - lots of functionality. I share my HA efforts between ISY and Homeseer HS3. HS3 has a plugin that fully controls the Ecobee so that's worked out really well. You can get status and control all functionality of the thermostat as well as read occupancy and temperature data from the room sensors. Doing so gives you the side benefit of adding 4 motion sensors and 4 room temperature sensors all at once! mark

Thanks Michel but no need. Moving my PLM has completely solved the problem mark

That's interesting. I have what I would consider to be a reasonably large installation. 140 or so devices scattered across 5 buildings and six electrical panels. The farthest building is some 300ft from the main house. Every single electrical switch and light is insteon controlled plus some outlets plus my 12 zone irrigation system through 2 EZ-Floras. I moved my GDO functions to my Elk system when the PLM all-on problem was an issue. To compound it even more I have a complicated electrical metering system in my home. Back in the '80s the electric company offered a system where you could do something like this power line ---> main meter ----> main panel ---> subfeed (100A) ----> second meter ----> sub panel for heating ------> feed all heating/cooling equipment. For billing they took the total electrical use, subtracted off the heating use, charged the non-heating use at the regular rate and charged the heating use at 50% The deal was that they had the right to turn off your heating use if there was a power shortage so you were required to have a secondary heating source (fireplaces). In the 35 year history of the program, though, they never once exercised that right. The program is over now but it's grandfathered till I sell the house. that means I get my heating power at about 5 cents/kwh. It's a great deal! The reason I mention this is because my HA stuff is on the heating side of the meter for convenience reasons. Early insteon (and X10 - I started with that and Stargate) had a very hard time with this situation. The powerline signals were severely degraded going back through the meter to the main panel and then out to the devices they controlled. Initially Insteon was quite flaky - way better than X10 which was borderline useless for me - but I've stuck with it and in the last few years the technology has matured to where I really don't have any issues with it whatsoever (save for PLM failures which seem to (I hope) be over). While older devices have failed - that's true - the new ones that replace them seem both more robust and have more features. At this point I seem to have enough dual band devices installed that I don't have a single access point, filter, repeater, etc. Just the devices themselves and a phase coupler. I'll probably venture a bit into some z-wave to see what it's all about but tbh I don't have many complaints with Insteon anymore.

I just looked at the cost of them. They're quite a bit more expensive than Insteon as well. At this moment I'm not in need of any new switches. But I'm gonna keep them in mind for the inevitable failure of some of my many insteon devices. mark

Nice! That's very interesting - thanks Mike. I don't have the Z-wave dongle for my 994IR yet - I'm considering it if only for the goofing around factor of Z-wave locks. I keep getting close to buying one but I have a few touchpad locks already so it's not really a big deal to just give whoever I want a disposable code then change it later (or not depending on who it is) My understanding is that Zwave takes a number of devices in order to solidify the mesh network that supports it. I imagine the larger the property the more devices that would be? mark