PBusby

I have my A/V receiver plugged into a synchrolinc. It controls turning on/off my subwoofer. While watching movies, during quiet passages the Synchrolinc will turn itself off and thus the subwoofer. I have tried various settings but I'm either missing something or I don't understand the settings well enough to calibrate the synchrolinc properly through the ISY. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, Paul

I can relate to that. I am an external user who now understands groups are scenes and scenes are groups. Paul

Zellarman, I've created scenes and programs like that which work most of the time.but I was hoping that I was missing something that made this work more elegantly. I still think I have some noise issues but I also think (as you do) that there can be too much PLC traffic sometimes which could be caused or exacerbated by short delayed programs cleaning up status on several devices to keep them in sync. However, maybe I'm still stuck in the old X10 world way of looking at this and don't fully understand Insteon group messaging...?

Okay, thanks for the clarification Lee. It appears I have some noise issues then.

I have already replaced all of my .v35 dimmers and relays but not KPLs because it is my understanding they aren't causing problems. The access points are correctly coupling the two legs. Two dual-band devices also couple across the legs. My wireless devices work fine. I don't believe my 900 Mhz phone is interfering with them. I have a passive coupler installed at the dryer left over from my x10 days. I have an electric dryer and water heater on 220v. All of my Comfort Cove heaters for the house are 220v. There are eleven zones of these each on their own breaker. I have numerous filters (again left over from x10 on electronic power supplies, TVs, stereo equipment, etc. So, I suppose there can still be noise issues but another question I have is how many devices will fire out of a scene reliably--unlimited, 100, 25, 10, what? The two scenes in question turn off all downstairs devices and buttons, and the other turns off all devices and buttons. The first has 95 devices and buttons the other 158. Is this too many to handle?

Yes. The PLM is now on a circuit in a receptacle that I believe is as close to the electrical panels as possible. I have 2 panels, 1 main one that primarily has the breakers for my electric heat and the secondary which has most of the rooms' breakers. I don't know if 2 panels makes a difference.

The legs are coupled properly. I should add the devices that occasionally don't turn off are almost always KPL buttons used control scenes not loads.

What's the best way to turn off all the lights in the house? I currently use a scene activated by a KPL button press. There a several dozen responders in the scene however and they don't all always turn off when the button is pressed.

I have an I/O Linc hooked to a chime which works fine and I have it in some scenes like when the garage door opens it chimes...I want the chime to go off every hour from 7:00 AM to the last one at 10:00 PM 7 days a week. Here's what I have in the first program called 'Chime': If time is 7:00 AM Repeat every 1 hour Set 'Entry Hall/Chimes-Relay' On And in second program: If time is 10:00 PM Stop program 'Chime' Currently the chime goes off at 7:00 AM and that's it. Ideally I want this in 1 program but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Paul Busby

Michel, Modem communications seem fine. I'm down to 4 KPLs causing problems and I am removing them one by one and adding them again. I won't know if this works until all 4 have been done and I run the batch update. I removed 4 other devices also: 2 unknowns and 2 irlincs which helped matters. I have tested this by updating other devices singly and adding some new devices one at time. So, it appears I'm making progress but it also appears I will have a lot of local links to create again centering around the KPLs.

Michel, I still have some flags but they are confined to all my kpls-dimmers, relays and timers.

Michel, After I wrote that last post I felt something wasn't quite right so I did some digging and it appears the admin console had hung up. I restarted it a few minutes ago and now it appears to be updating the devices and the flags are starting to disappear. I am also seeing quick successions of INST-ACK and INST-SRX now also on the event viewer. Paul Busby

Oberkc, Yes, it's located next to filtered equipment but apparently still causes problems, hence the move to a "quieter" location. It's been almost twelve hours now and it's still system busy so I'm guessing that you're correct since I have a fair number of devices and a lot of links.

I moved the ISY to another location close to the breaker boxes and where I thought there would be less line noise to interfere with communications and it seems to be working. The flags appear to have gone although the administrative console has been showing the system busy for over an hour...it also appears a lot of local links have been messed up during this. I hope the ISY will restore them as it works its way through my network?

1. Yes, 10 discovered by the ISY so far, dimmers, timers and relays. 2. Some, but I haven't noticed any problems with them in the past, and the ISY started communicating with the network without incident. The problems started after I upgraded to 2.7.12 and my router froze. 3. No However, things have been reliable using local control or MControl for the most part over the past 1 1/2 years. I fixed the router, I'm communicating with the ISY, the PLM is working.