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@GeddyI have been over that Update ISY screen for 3 days. I deleted and re-added devices a few times this morning. I tried different ports. Finally ended up back on 8080. It is working now. It is working on both IoP and ISY944. Now for Polyglot V2. I guess that will be my next topic. Give a monkey enough time an he will type something logical! Thank you!

@GeddyI never looked for the Node Servers in the Portal either. They are there. I am trying to get it in the Admin Console. I did this once before with an ISY994 and I did not have this much trouble. In Admin Console on IoP, nothing but 100 empty slots.

I finally installed a fresh image on Polisy, updated the packages, and have it working through the portal. I am not doing a migration at this time, that is until I feel comfortable. My problem at the moment is I can't seem to populate the Node Servers. I picked an easy one, Ping. I added Google 8.8.8.8 started the service. I put it in slot 1. Service says started in the Polyglot V3 dashboard. The portal show it loaded. I have a green dot. Select Tools, Connectivity, Node Servers, show it loaded to the correct device. I have rebooted Polyglot and IOP. Pulled the plug. Seems to me it should just show up in IoP. It doesn't. I must be missing something .

Thanks @MrBill, I started a ticket yesterday. Michel has started.

Well I did get it to reset. Now I can't find it on the network. Let me check your attachment from February and try somethings.

Okay, so I finally got a Polisy. Since it is used, I figured first things first. It needs a factory reset and software version check. I tried following the reset procedure in Wiki. Hold the little button in till all 3 LEDs flash. Well I held it in for a minute. I should have had 1 blinking, followed by 2 blinking and finally all blinking. No LED ever blinked. I can feel the button depress. I can get into the device and see that it is half erased, the same as when I received it. All the modules are gone, but the programs remain in damaged form as the modules are all gone. Isy is 5.4.4.I can get into Polyglot 2 and 3. Now, how do I check for Polisy version 13? I have read through here and have not come up with much. I can SSH, but still not find the version.

Sorry it has taken me 2 months to get back on this. We all work from home and testing alarms is a real sore point. Not to mention the dogs and cats. I am the only person to get out of the house alone, well besides the dog. Okay, I have not changed anything. Today I took out my can of smoke and sprayed around the detector and everything worked as planned. I received emails and the lights came on. I also recorded a True in the log instead of a False. I can tell it ended True by the half green icon. 30 minutes later looking at the smoke detector in the Main tab it showed the Smoke Bridge Smoke "on" long after the program ended. Hum. I can't reset that; unless I close and reopen the admin console. Which leads to validate @randyth saying he doesn't use the query to clear it. @MrBilland @randyth are both using "status on", so am I, so I am not going to mess with "switched on". I have tried this 4 times. with closing and not closing the admin console to clear the Smoke on condition. Every test was successful. @TechmanThe smoke bridge is connected to both the Hub and ISY. Yes, I know. 90% of my stuff is off the Hub.It took me 4 or 5 hours to connect the the Smoke Bridge to First Alerts. I was hoping to take the last items off the Hub and remove the links from the hub when they turned the Hub back on. That was wishful thinking. You might hold the only explanation as to why my program originally did run when smoke was detected, but returned a false value instead of true.

I went through this a while back and thought I had it resolved. Not. I have a Smoke Bridge, Insteon Hub (more or less decommissioned but still on line, most everything has been removed from it) and the ISY994i. So the other day the wife is cooking and sets off the smoke detector. This in turn is picked up by the Insteon Hub and ISY. Insteon Hub sends me a smoke detected message. It did not dawn on me at the moment but ISY did not send a message. ISY also picked up a CO2 alert too. I think this is false, but still. ISY should have sent me a CO2 message too. I reviewed the log and saw this... ISY says they are false conditions, but yet it picked up the alerts. The time is correct. So I must be missing something as the condition was not true. Smoke Detector Smoke Detected - [ID 0065][Parent 0001] If 'Bedroom / Smoke Bridge-Smoke' Status is On Then Send Notification to 'Chris email' content 'Smoke Detector Smoke Detected' Wait 2 seconds Set 'Bedroom / Bedroom Ceiling-Light' On Wait 2 seconds Set 'Bedroom / Bedroom Nightstand' On Wait 2 seconds Set 'Living Room / Living Room Right' On Wait 2 seconds Set 'Kitchen Area / Kitchen Light' On Wait 5 minutes Set 'Bedroom / Smoke Bridge-Smoke' Query Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') I guess I could put my "Then"s on the "Else" side; but that would be sloppy. Note: The Query as the last line seems to unlatch the Smoke Bridge from the ISY. It seems that the Smoke Bridge does not send an all clear or ISY is not looking for one; not sure witch. ISY will remain in a tripped state while the Smoke Bridge is back to normal. The Query forces ISY to update itself.

@MrBillThanks again! So I guess a simple use of your "if ", then Query and Write. It would hammer away at it until true. After that if would stop and wait for the next false. tabetop Box 1 reset - [ID 00AC][Parent 0001] If 'Bedroom / Tabletop Box.1' Responding is False Then Set 'Bedroom / Tabletop Box.1' Query Set 'Bedroom / Tabletop Box.1' Write Changes Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I get theses messages from time to time about various devices. However the command is usually successfully completed. I guess just a slow communication or something. Anyway to turn these off? On another note I have a KeyPadLink Dimmer that constantly has comm issues. It is located inches from 2 Dual Band light switches. 2 feet from a dual band lamp module and 10 feet from another dual band dimming wall switch. I found if I Query and Write to it every hour I can force it to update. The problem is, I could create a comm issue doing this when it might be actually fine at the moment. Is there a way to see if the KeyPadLink is offline with the red ! before I hit it with a Query and Write before I force an update?

@MrBill; yes, so obvious I did not think about it! I rarely use that "Run at Startup". Thanks!

I am looking to create an "if" statement that runs 24/7. I have many programs that count things at various intervals 24/7. Currently I am doing a "if" time between 00:01 AM and 23:59 PM. This works fine but seems seems a bit over the top. Just trying to clean things up a bit. Example: Set Temperature Variable - [ID 0069][Parent 0001] If From 12:00:00AM To 11:59:00PM (same day) Then Repeat Every 10 minutes $sFIB.Temp = 'Guest Bedroom / ZW 002 Multilevel Sensor 1' Temperature °C $sFIB.Temp *= 1.8 $sFIB.Temp += 32 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Got it, thanks. I thought there was some magic pill in ISY I could use to factory reset a device. I had 3 or 4 wall switches mysteriously go goofy a year ago or more. For 2 months I had to do a factory reset on them constantly. I called Insteon and was told my switches were old. I ordered new switches and before I installed them the problem mysteriously went away. I did not realize that Scenes actually created device to device links. Never thought about it that way. I guess deleted a scene will erase the link?

@GeddySorry for the confusion. My question was about infromation contained in reading the post, not about the post. @larryllixlooks like I through you off too. Based on @larryllix reading your reply to a post.... Your reply is the first one. I can only find this post throught Google. My question is how can you factory reset a device in ISY? You say you can. How? I know ther is a procedure in the manual. I always do it by the procedure in the manual. My other question was how can you link responder and a controller (MS to a lamp) inside of ISY? You mention Admin Console link setup. You say slightly more advanced. Where is this as I can't find it. Sorry for the confusion.

@larryllix writes - always, always, always factory reset every Insteon device before using with ISY. They can do really weird stuff. This can be done easily after, if already linked to ISY. How do you do this if the device is already linked? I always reset manually. I did not know another way. Restore Device to blow away the unused links? @larryllix also writes - link MS to the lamp, via Admin Console link setup. (this is slightly more advanced and can be done later to speed up lamp response speed) How would you go about linking devices through the console? Admin Console link setup? I have always done this manually by going from one device to the other. Maybe these options don't exist anymore?

@MrBill I would like to see more information on the newtork resources. Thanks for the tip on Pushover.

I have found another way to go about doing this, but for the life of me can't figure out why it runs every other day at the correct time. Sunset is about 8:10 + 5 hours, Lights should go out at 1:10 AM. Everytime it fails, I look in the Next Scheduled Run and it is set for the next day.

@MrBillI have been trying to digest this. My first hangup was "Resource 'NotificationNS.DoorTrouble.FrontDoor'". What the heck is Resource? Afte a few days I finally figured it out by accident. So in this case "Resource 'NotificationNS.DoorTrouble.FrontDoor'" is a call to your HA? Is there any documentation for "Network Resources"? Looks like a lot can be done here. Since I don't know what this is I changed it to a Notify. Second: Is this a continus loop? Does it ever exit? Does it stop when it sees another hearbeat on or off? Back to the program I am messing with for heartbeat, it does work. I don't have to put the sensor in communication mode. The variable does not update the time/date becase it does not change. I think it always send a heartbeat on when working correctly. I pulled a battery out, 6 hours later I received a heart beat missed. I put the baterry back in and I received an all clear 12 hours later. In this case the time/date did update. It did becase it went from a 1 to a 2 and back to a 1. I am definatly going to be recording battery days for all my sensors.

@MrBillso I typed the message above yours, double tapped my front porch light (so as to turn off off the gate alarm program), opened and kept open my south gate to do yard work and went out to do yard work. An hour later I closed the gate. During the time I was doing yard work, I received a heartbeat and the variable , last changed, recorded the new time. Go figure. So just for fun I put one of my leak sensors in communications mode (holding the set button 3 seconds) and I got a heartbeat time update too. Let me set up some programs based on your logic and see what happens. I like the way you keep track of battery days and actual heartbeats missed. Eventually I could migrate some of the knowledge into the motion sensors. They have a battery % level. However this information is only available when plugged in of communications mode. Batteries just die with no warning.

Gate sensors are working fine as for sensors. Some other anomalies have come up. Heartbeat detection doesn't seem to work. I have plagiarized the leak sensor program from "The ISY994i Home Automation Cookbook". I have tuned it for the 2421 open close sensor. Since I am actually using the leak sensor program, I looked at the leak sensor program variables, in the last changed column and noticed they have not been updated in 28 days. So it seems to be my heartbeats are not being detected. My gate sensors have not changed in 3 days. So maybe I am not detecting heartbeats correctly? I am thinking that if the heartbeat never changes state, then it will never run the then. North Gate - Variable Control 2 - [ID 0080][Parent 006C] If 'Outside / North Gate - Heartbeat' is switched On Or 'Outside / North Gate - Heartbeat' is switched Off Then $sNorthGate = 1 Wait 25 hours $sNorthGate = 2 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Next, issue is my siren, 2868, output. I can make it chime, but not alarm. According to the guide chime is supposed to 100db and alarm 115db. Chime seconds don't seem to work correctly either. The number of seconds is directly related to how many chimes you get. I have tried messing with Armed Home and Armed Away before triggering the alarm. No difference. North Gate - [ID 0081][Parent 0001] If ( 'Outside / North Gate - Open' is switched On And $sGateAlarmOnOff is 1 ) Then Set 'Outside / Rear Deck Light' On Wait 2 seconds Set 'Outside / Front Porch Light' On Repeat 10 times Set 'Kitchen Area / 53.28.E9.1 Siren Trigger Home' On for 2 seconds Wait 2 seconds Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

@MrBillI really like your door sensor idea. I never saw a use for these. Too late now. I can buy a steak and dozen eggs, a Raspberry Pi or one of these sensors on eBay all for about the same price. I didn't buy enough 2843's either. I will just keep an eye out on eBay. For the time being I am just doing a "Fast On" and off at the front door.

@MrBillI totally agree. I have an old RemoteLink 2440 that looks like Dr. Will Robinson would have used in the 60's to control stuff when the internet is down. Too bad Insteon did not make better remotes, like X10. Those newer little ones are nice, but not practical. I use Alexa primarily for the voice commands. I too bought a garage door opener and a dishwasher. Both operate on yet another app. I did not buy them for connectivity. Connectivity came with them. Fortunately I don't really care. The garage door opener I bought because it has a battery backup. I was told I need WiFi for access buttons. I am like really? What happens to WiFi when the power goes out? I finally found a wired smart button/control panel to operate the door. Now the door is fully automatic. If I leave it open it closes in 10 minutes. Yes, it is safe too. I don't need for it to get any smarter. As for the dishwasher; am I really going to start it when I am at grandma's house? I haven't made up my mind on the blinds yet as I don't want another controller. If I go z-wave, I can keep it in house. I can go Zigbee but it would go to the cloud. I have not tried HA as I can't find a Raspberry PI for less than the price of a laptop!

Fixed the the intermittent problem. There were 18 links in the device. I did a "restore device". Now there are 4. Now it works as it should.

@apostolakislThanks for the routine. It has been driving me crazy for 2 days. It works, It doesn't work. Roll the dice. I tried all sorts of stuff. Messing with timing and delays. I was chasing my tail. I finally tied in my living room switch in addition to my dining room switch. Living room is spot on dining room is a toss up. Must have a funky dining room switch.

For a long time I have wanted to put gate sensors on my outdoor yard gates. I finally figured it out with a little help from Google too. With the use of a 2843-222, a overhead door contact https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LYD8CRK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and a outdoor box https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MCZ17HW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 it is possible . This really works great. I check for a daily heartbeat to check battery and sound an alarm when the gates are opened. Anybody have an easy way to shut the gate sensors down when I am doing yard work or want to open the gates? I was thinking RFID tags and IfTTT (if ISY can support) or double tapping a switch. I know I can disable the program in ISY.