IndyMike

@elvisimprsntr I apologize. My earlier response came off as dismissive. I do use the location based dusk/dawn for all of my outdoor lighting. I also use it for indoor lighting, but in conjunction with local light level measurement. Today is another day when my local light level measurement will enable motion based lighting throughout the day. I use it for all hallways, stairs, and kitchen. We're just in a different environment than you're accustomed to.

Hey Paul, I had forgotten about the Micro Modules. Connecting the sensor output to the sense input on the Micro Module is actually rather elegant. You will need to watch for leakage current on the Dusk/Dawn sensor. I've never actually measured this on my post lamps, but it's not enough to light the LED bulbs that I use. If necessary, you could add a load to the sensor to keep the current/voltage below the sense input turn on threshold. Let us know how things go. https://cache.insteon.com/documentation/2443-x22-en.pdf

I see that you are from Florida. You are correct for locations that receive sunlight on a regular basis. Both Paul and I are on the lee side of lake Michigan. We are currently enduring the time of year that I refer to as "Perma-cloud". Based on the current forecast, we will not see the sun until Monday. Once we hit November, things get far worse. It's nice to have a system that responds to current ambient light during our dark days. While the lake may give us clouds and snow during the winter months, it also keeps us much warmer than locations to the West (Chicago, Green Bay). Clear days in Jan/Feb look nice - but that's when the temps plummet.

Hi Paul, Understand that you are trying to re-create the dusk/dawn feature. I am not sure if you are looking for Insteon hardware or are looking at other technologies. Also not sure what platform ISY you are using. The Insteon MSII sensors can work, but require external power and a lot of finagling (normally accompanied by the use of bad words). There are several Zwave motion/temperature/humidity/light level sensors that could be added (Zwave dongle or Eisy Matter module). I currently use Zooz ZSE40 700 and like them a lot for motion detection, temperature, and battery life. I can't comment on the luminescence feature as I don't utilize it. If you're interested, I could start charting it. Wireless tags are another way to get Motion, Temperature, Light, and Open/Close information into the ISY. I have not used them as yet. Many forum members have and could provide guidance if this is a direction you are interested in. Tags can be found here: Wireless Tag's. There is also a forum topic dealing with the Tag nodeserver and integration. Give us a bit more information on how you envision this system integration. I'm sure this forum has the expertise to help. IM

UltraLoq U-Bolt Pro. I installed a WiFi set at my daughters house and Z-Wave in mine. We both love them. The locks are 700 series and paired to my Zooz 700 series Z-Stick from their remote locations (75+ feet). I was impressed.

I was using a very similar setup (BE469/300 Series/ISY994) that worked reasonably well. I upgraded to the 500 series dongle on the ISY and things went downhill. Tried a 700 series Z-Stick on Home Assistant and it failed miserably. Upgraded the locks and everything worked. The 300 series BE469 is marginal at best on send and receive. If you happen to have a steel entry door, you are already at a disadvantage. I hope Techman's suggestions work, but in my experience, you are fighting a loosing battle with that lock. If your lock responds to commands from the Eisy, I would eliminate the "If - Status Z-Wave/Lock - Front Door is unlocked" qualifier. You will be triggering when the Elk indicates the door status changes to "closed". You will not detect a local lock/unlock. Not optimal, but you will have some functionality.

Hello Geddy, You are correct that I was referring to the "new" Pop-up "Not Found" bug. What is confusing to me is that the bug crept in with no changes on my end. IoX launcher is from 5/20/23. ISY994 is the latest (last) V5.7.4 (Firmware and UI dated 7/7/21). At the moment I view this as yet another nail in the ISY994 coffin. I plan to keep using it until it gives up on me.

I'm wondering if we aren't over complicating this. My IoX finder routinely "forgets" my ISY address. I either add the address manually or load from a saved file. As you mentioned, the IoX finder recently began giving me "not found" errors. However, I can still manually enter the IP address for the ISY and connect to the admin console. I'm ignoring the "not found" errors for now. Try the following: https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/39489-iox-finder-not-found/?do=findComment&comment=354467

Thank you for the link to the backup routine. That looks very useful. I have been using the Sandisk A1 microSD cards in my cameras and Pi since 2019. Very good experience with them. I've been out of the industry since 2019, but it's hard to believe that things haven't improved in that time... I did check my ISY994 card - it's a run of the mill Sandisk (reputable name) with no speed/endurance markings. It is the original card. Sorry for taking the thread sideways...

@MrBill, your experience is very different than mine. I've never had a SDcard issue. I have had multiple power supply failures over the years. Your comment on the node servers is interesting. I have not used them and did not realize that they exercised the SDcard to that extent. I did opt for a high endurance SDcard for my Home Assistant installation on the Raspberry Pi 4. I knew I would be logging temperature data and exercising the card. If what you are saying is true, the calculus for the memory card may have indeed changed. Should we be putting out a general recommendation to the ISY community to upgrade their cards to High Endurance versions? High endurance cards for ISY are moderately priced. This could be cheap insurance for the ISY.

@bw23198, as @hart2hart indicated, you likely have a corrupted file system on your SDcard. The "bad areas" likely existed prior to you restoring your backup. Now when you try to perform a backup the ISY cannot read the file structure. Option 1 - While SDcards can go bad, it's somewhat rare. Normally it's a power event while the card is being written to that causes corruption. The failure rate of your power supply is far higher than the SDcard. If you have seen "other problems" (reboots, warning lights, etc) check your power supply. Spec's are on the Wiki. There's also a thread here: Option 2 - card contact issue Remove the card/clean the contacts/re-install several times to see if it is a contact issue. Re-install your backup Re-try backing up the system to see if you have file errors. Option 3 - bad card (cards are pretty inexpensive). @MrBillhas a rather nice post on upgrading the MicroSDcard here: Best of luck - let us know what you find.

Nice -glad it worked. The UD folks are good at coming up with magic. That's why we all here.

Hey Jeff, The most recent table is "better". The first link @address 0FF8 shows that your device is a responder(A2) to group 0 device 70.1A.5A - your PLM I presume. What I don't see is a corresponding link where your device is listed as a Controller to the PLM. This would be 0XXX: E2 XX 70.1A.5A. What you have in the table is a HALF link. The PLM can control your device, but the device can't issue control events back. Again, you can probably rectify this by deleting/resetting/relinking your device. If you have many devices that fall into this category, a ticket might still be a wise course of action.

Ok, so I looked a little more. I'm thinking something is hosed with your link tables. Normally the first entries are links back to your PLM. The link table below is for my "all-on" detector. It's only linked to my PLM @53.BC.3A. Your device appears to be linked to address 00.00.00 - Not Good. If this were just 1 device, I would suggest deleting/reset/relink for this device. If your entire system has this issue (you can look at the tables for a number of devices) I would again suggest opening a ticket.

Hi Jeff, Your event viewer above has a "Link for responder... not found" entry that I have never seen before. Basically, you executed a Scene (00.00.28) and requested status (something the ISY normally doesn't do for scenes). The Eisy did not expect to see the responder @1C.47.5E. Something appears to be out of synch between your Eisy/PLM/devices. You have a device that believes it's part of scene 00.00.28 but the Eisy doesn't know about it. I don't have the Eisy, but would guess that something went wrong during the migration. The fact that you do not see Control triggers in the event viewer is also indicative of missing links in the PLM/Eisy. I can't help much past that. Unless someone else has experienced this, it may be time to open a ticket...

Don't know the answer to current offering from Insteon. Loosing two accesspoints is definitely telling. I still don't understand why your 2477D's aren't communicating across the phases. Is it possible that you had an electrical event that took out multiple devices? If you have "damaged" insteon devices hanging on the powerline they might not properly repeat the signal (rf or powerline) and could instead appear to be signal absorbers.

Actually, half red/ half green is ideal. You are communicating across both phases with the range extender in that location. Is that the location where your failed AccessPoint was? Do you see any correlation between Red flashing or Green Flashing devices with devices that you can't restore? If all of your problem devices are on one phase that would give us a direction to pursue. You could remove your range extender and run the 4-tap test on your PLM. If devices in your garage don't flash (or only flash red or green) it would be another indication that your PLM signal isn't making it there.

Marcus, Your garage fan restored, but it is marginal. There were numerous ISY retries during the restore process. This device will not be reliable in Scenes (the ISY does not check status/retry communications in scenes). Your garage device made it further than it had previously. There were a number of retries. Can't tell why it failed as it's only a partial log. The fact that your Accesspoint died may be the smoking gun we were looking for. Try moving the range extender to it's location. It does not need to be linked to repeat signals. The Range extender will operate the "4-tap test" by itself. Tap it 4 times (quickly) and it will start beeping and sending out signals: 1) Devices on the same phase will flash red (including your v.45 dimmers) 2) Device on the opposite phase will flash green. 3) No flashing indicates no signal reception or does not support the test. Investigate the devices that don't flash to determine their firmware level. We should be able to determine whether they support the test or not. You can actually run the 4-tap test from any enabled device (as Techman indicated above). This includes your PLM and your 2477D Dimmers. The dimmers can be a bit tricky to activate since you need to push the set button 4 times quickly. I was able to do this on a dimmer after removing the front plate.

Your garage light is going to be problematic. It essentially has poor communication in both directions. What is puzzling is the fact that all of the Dimmers you've listed so far are V.45 dual band devices. If there are were problems with noise of absorption on your powerline, the PLM should communicate through RF. Techman's suggestion of the 4-tap test is an excellent one. If will tell you which devices are on the same phase as the PLM (flashing red) and the opposite phase (flashing green). I would infer that a device that doesn't flash at all (steady green) either does not support the test or is not communicating.

The Log above shows that you successfully linked device @ address 41.AC.90 (Switchlinc dimmer?). It also shows that your wrote the updates to the Switchlinc dimmer @40.FA.88 (previous device you were writing to). That sounds like a big success. That would indicate that your original PLM location is suspect (noise/absorbers)

Hello again Marcus, I wanted to show you what is going on in your system. I found a V.45 switchlinc dimmer in my stock - identical to the one you tried to link. I factory reset it, and then linked it to my ISY/PLM In the graphic below, your device log is on the left/ mine is on the right. The normal sequence of communication is : [INST-TX-I1] (or I2): ISY communicating to the PLM [INST-ACK]: PLM acknowledging the ISY command [INST-SRX]: Target device responding to command (switchlinc dimmer). The RED highlighted sections below are instances where the ISY did not receive a response from the Switchlinc (4 total). The ISY will re-send the information until it gets 3 no-responses. In the case of your Switchlinc, 3 ISY got 3 consecutive no-responses and declared a fault. What is curious is that when the device DID response, it showed 3 HOPS remaining. It doesn't get any better than that. The device appears to be having problems "hearing" the PLM. When it responds, the communication is excellent. Your KPL showed similar issues. Numerous no-reponses, but good HOP levels when it did reply. This is why I am asking about signal absorbers, phase coupling, or other changes to your system.

Hello Marcus, You are absolutely having communication issues. Your KPL appeared to accept writes properly, but then failed to respond to tree successive retries from the ISY. What I find ODD is that your retries (no response from KPL) is followed by a good response in terms of HOPs. The below shows a timeout followed by a very good response (2 HOPS left). It's almost as if the KPL doesn't hear the PLM periodically. When it does hear the PLM, it responds well. Check to see if there are signal absorbers plugged in near your PLM. Unplug or filter if you find any. I know you tried moving your PLM once already, consider trying again with a shorter cable. Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:37 AM : [INST-TX-I2CS] 02 62 40 FA 88 1F 2E 00 01 05 1F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AD Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:37 AM : [INST-ACK ] 02 62 40.FA.88 1F 2E 00 01 05 1F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AD 06 (00) ###########@ Timeout - Should be a [INST- SRX ] here ######### Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:46 AM : [INST-TX-I2CS] 02 62 40 FA 88 1F 2E 00 01 05 1F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AD Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:46 AM : [INST-ACK ] 02 62 40.FA.88 1F 2E 00 01 05 1F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AD 06 (00) Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:48 AM : [INST-SRX ] 02 50 40.FA.88 70.16.CE 2B 2E 00 (00) Thu 08/10/2023 11:48:48 AM : [Std-Direct Ack] 40.FA.88-->ISY/PLM Group=0, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=2 Your second device also failed to respond after 3 retries. It was far worse and did not accept any data. Have a look at your Insteon Messaging Settings under "Link Management\Advanced Options". Let us know what your current setting are. Consider using moving a plug in device (lamplinc/appliancelinc) next to the PLM and restoring that. Trying to figure out if you have a problem with your new PLM, your installed electrical circuit, our your phase coupling.

Glad you got things working. For reference - the "Identical/Ignore" entries shown above that have the ": 22" are devices that were deleted from a scene. When a device is deleted from a scene the ISY writes a "22' to the entry to get the device to ignore it. Much quicker than re-writing the entire link table. When you do a restore, the ISY "consolidates" the link table and removes the "22" entries.

You are of course correct Brian. I could have sworn that my V1.0 2413S was powerline only. I was wrong. I was thinking about my 2412S. Sorry to confuse...

Hello MarcusD, At this point I would NOT recommend switching to the Eisy/Polisy. It would further confuse things. You appear to have some basic communication issues with your system of the PLM. These will still exist with the Eisy/Polisy. Your previous post included the event viewer results from a "write updates" and "device restore" session. I didn't see any communication errors in either of those logs. You are apparently getting them now. Starting to wonder whether you have somehow lost your phase bridging. Questions: You mentioned that you had gotten a "new" 2413S. Is it really new or rebuilt? Can you post the version/firmware and date code? Trying to make sure that it's really a dual band PLM ( there were older 2413's that were not dual band). Is it possible that you had a power event that may have damaged some of your devices? This could affect your bridging and mesh. Mr. Bill determined that you don't have the ability to "turn off" device updates - that's unfortunate. What you CAN do, is disable devices so you are only working with one at a time. This will limit the confusing ISY update action in the event viewer. A few recommendations: I would suggest that you disable all devices with "pending writes" and "errors". Select one device to restore. Enable that device, and restore with the Event Viewer on level 3. Post the event viewer contents here. If you continue to have issues with communications, try updating Lamplincs/ApplianceLincs by plugging them in next to the PLM. Always use the device restore.