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Great, thank you both so much, really appreciate it! Strangely enough, it all seems to be working perfectly fine now... I've been walking around my house barking orders to "Alexa" to turn lights on and off and it's super snappy again and no issues. Again, it was ONLY the Insteon devices that were having issues, the Hue controlled devices were triggering just fine through Polisy. So I really can't explain it, I don't know that the USB Stick Insteon device is going bad... not sure if that's a thing, I have backups for this hardware if I need to change to a PLM or other USB stick if need be, but seems like after picking up the Polisy physically, looking at it and setting it back down, it has somehow resolved. Very odd. Thanks again.

Actually two things I'm looking for if someone could help: 1) The best/safest actual "reboot" process for the Polisy (I've used the button press method in the past to gracefully reboot it because I didn't find any real straight forward way of doing it as it's basically a series of VMs running on that little box). Is there an actual graceful reboot process? 2) PLM replacement procedure. Those two things would be greatly helpful, if I ultimately end up needing to do anything like that. Thank you again in advance!

Well, I have a bad memory, because I just looked and realized pretty quickly that I don't actually have a PLM, I have the Insteon USB stick sticking out of the back of the Polisy. Again, has been this way for years and nothing honestly has changed. I just kind of physically looked and moved a couple things around a little and suddenly it seems everything is now snappy and working... I didn't disconnect/unplug anything or change anything, so not sure what is going on. All of the errors that I had when I opened up the console (I had a handful of device communication errors pop up), I was able to go to that device and query and it communicated and pulled the status instantly and now everything seems to be working. I'm kind of confused here. Would someone be able to share the PLM replacement procedure for me? All references that I find are old broken links to PDFs. I don't know if the USB PLM replacement procedure is the same however I would assume it is, it's just a different interface doing the same thing. Thanks again

I've searched and cannot find what I'm looking for so am posting, hopefully someone can help. Last night for the very first time in the many years I've been using this system (Polisy with Insteon PLM and a USB Z-Wave stick), all of the Insteon devices failed to trigger at their normal "evening" interval but my light bulbs connected through Hue worked just fine and triggered on time. I've also noticed that when I give commands to my Echo's to turn something on and off, if it's an Insteon device, it either has a HUGE delay of like 10 seconds or better, or it just never happens (very rarely it's instant like it always has been), but also noticing that my Hue connected light bulbs are spot on still and work perfect and instant like always. Is this something where I can just unplug the PLM and plug it back in and see if that works, or should I shut down the Polisy unit first (how do I do that exactly, I can't find any info on how to reboot the whole box or shut the whole box down)? Is this common, or where would you guys start? I don't know if this is a common symptom of a failing PLM or if something else is wrong... as I stated, this system has been absolutely rock solid for many years. This is a sudden, new change. Thank you in advance

Hello, if this has been documented already somewhere else I apologize, I was not able to find it. With bits and pieces from reviewing various old posts, I was able to figure this one out without much to go off of so figured I would document it for anyone else looking to do the same or for anyone new to the Polisy for this pretty basic integration. My objective was simply to have good light bulb control for my lamps. Outside of a few lamps in my home, I exclusively use Insteon switches but have yet to find a good wireless bulb that comes recommended outside of Hue for integrating into Polisy. Assumptions: - Polisy and Hue hub are on the same local network, same VLAN, or firewall rules have been created to allow communication between these devices if on separate VLANs. Prerequisites: - A functioning (fully updated) Polisy on your home network - A Hue hub on your home network (although there are ways around this, I chose to use an actual hub for various reasons) - Hue light bulbs added to your Hue hub and confirmed to be working properly from the Hue app (get this completed first) - Be in close proximity of your Hue hub as you will need to press the button and then click a button within the ISY dashboard, so you will likely want a laptop for this step depending how close your computer is to the hue hub Process: - Log into PG3 from the launcher - Click on Node Server Store - Scroll down to find Hue and click Install - Click on your ISY Dashboard tab across the top so you are looking at your additional node servers, including your newly installed Hue - Click Details for your Hue node server - Press the round button on top of your Hue hub - Within 30 seconds, click Restart in your Hue node server - This will trigger it to discover all of the available devices/rooms/etc. configured on that Hue hub - Now you should be able to go back to your UD Launcher and open up the admin console - At this point, when the admin console started it's refresh cycle upon opening, it discovered the Hue hub and all associated devices, etc. that were discovered during the "button press phase" of discovery That's it... it's as easy as that. Again, this may be covered elsewhere however I was not able to find any simple, straight forward (new) install process... only older threads which seem to be prior to the PG3 node server for this integration. Things I like about this integration and Hue especially... it does NOT require you to create yet another login to some cloud service, etc. Additionally, it's all local control, no dependency on Internet or cloud services. I hope someone else finds this helpful, I am by every definition a beginner to Polisy and IoP, so please excuse any incorrect terminology. Thank you