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Thanks, I had originally assumed there had to be code before the if statement. I shall work on building the programs thanks v much once more!

@goose66 How does this work? Perhaps some sort of internal ISY clock? If so what is the frequency? If 'Holiday / Indoor Holiday 1' Responding is False

@Goose66thanks for your help on this! 😬 @vbPhil Very nice thank you. Along the lines of what I'm after. Clean and efficient. Do you get any false positives? Very very occasionally I will get a blip in communications, the odd device will not have responded correctly. I was intending to add some redundancy in the form of multiple no respond queries = notify.

Thinking about this a bit more, the GFCI does have a good ground as it is installed in a location directly from the main panel (basement), so it would only be the cable going underground outdoors, outdoor receptacle and pump that would not be grounded correctly/efficiently. As far as 'polling', yes I agree I meant call for its status, I think in programming I can differentiate between it responding or not.

@goose66 Interesting. Even using a dual RF Insteon device? The ground is 'technically there' but the resistance is higher than I would like. It's in the event of a major short to ground fault I would not be so sure grounding to the main panel would work properly, so it would possibly energize the pump and water in the tank until something hopefully trips (GFCI or if not installed 15Amp breaker).

I should add, I chose to fit a GFCI to the line when I discovered the ground was faulty. I'm reading about 80 ohms. All cabling terminations checked / cleaned. It's an old style thick insulated 10 gauge copper cable with a very thin ground something like 18 gauge(?) which I can only assume has broken somewhere along the length. Now the pump is on a GFCI I am worried it will occasionally trip and I will be unaware, so I thought I could rig something up with a plug in Insteon device just to monitor its state. No load will be going through the Insteon device and the GFCI and Insteon device will be installed indoors in the basement.

Hey Goose, I'm wanting to detect if the GFCI trips, which I would be able to do if the ISY device (no load) disappears.

HI Brian, The insteon device will have no load - it will be plugged into the GFCI and only used as a polling device. The septic pump is wired through the GFCI to another receptacle. 120V 15Amp.

I'm sure this would be quite easy, but wondering if anyone could flex their programmatica skills at this one: I have a septic pump on a GFCI (long story - no ground) so I want to plug an Insteon device into it (dimmer, switch etc.), that will be able to be polled by the ISY every 30 minutes or so. If there is no response after say 5 polls, I am notified. Would the best way to do this be an integer variable and If so how would you go about it?

Yes, working again now.

Ironically this follows a power outage at a remote address so I ended up chasing pixies for a couple of hours. Ugh.....

Not only you! I have been trying to troubleshoot this morning. I shall stop and wait it out now. UD Mobile - Error 500 Mobilinc Pro - Connection Error my.isy.io - Up

having a known working PLM to test would be the way I would go, but I'm no expert YMMV. It's *usually* always the PLM that croaks before anything else.

Sorry for the delay I have not been on the board for a while. Yes, zwave plus. No comms issues here but most of the installations are within good range with the ISY's directly. I think Bluetooth features come with the sense range (sense has no zwave) not the connect range. Yes, I use some locks at a guest house and change the pins remotely according to the guests preference (that way they always remember it). The locks can trigger events based on user number, locking and unlocking the door(s), and lock state. I perform some actions based on that (guest mode / owner mode etc.).

Schlage Connect have been rock solid for me over the years.

Did you make a scene out of all of the players?

@oskrypuch to be cost effective for Canada I recommend: https://www.kijiji.ca/v-general-electronics/mississauga-peel-region/insteon-repair-service/1629894953 He's fixed up quite a few of my devices. @NDSSM not wanting to take anything away from your US services I hope okay.

If you have the broken PLM's horded you may want to see if they are fixable?

There is still life in the old Insteon / ISY bird yet. Perhaps not for new builds but there is certainly enough stock flying around both new (Insteon store backup selling a limited range of kit) and used. I am happy hanging off the cliff edge with my fingernails and have accrued enough kit for most eventualities now....so I should be good for quite a few years with the two properties I have the kit installed. By then I'll be too old and burned out to do any anything anyway.

There is a dude on ebay that was offering decent laser etched buttons. I'll see if I can find him.

More of these posts please! I have a box full of dead or flaky KPLs, I may give this a go.

Pretty close. I have a business account which takes a couple of bucks off and I don't include tax as I claim that back.

@larryllix you mean to be fixed? I shipped a box with 6 Insteon units in and put a return label in the box, so yeah about $40 both ways.

Hi Geddy, I had originally bought the cap kits too, as I was planning to try and fix them myself but in the end farmed it out to a pro.

@brian h I still use one in a live environment! Not many devices, and you can detect it is slightly slower, but not a problem in the environment it is in. Over the years I had 2 blow on me, I kept them 'just in case' and those have now been resurrected for $30 each. Can't complain .