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apostolakisl: Thank you for the input. I am headed to our new facility this afternoon, and I will check the ballasts on the HID. Joe.

People: This may have been discussed, but I could not find it in the 5 minutes I searched. Is there any way to use Smarthome/ISY technology to control circuit breakers? We are moving our manufacturing business to a factory which uses HID lighting. It is controlled by a series of circuit breakers and you know as well as I that more often than not, the employeess will leave without turning off those lights or the IR heating elments for that matter. It would be ideal to automate the entire plant with an ISY. Any ideas? Joe

Rand: The only thing I did was add a couple of LL to the "Christmas" button on my Black RL. That was a few releases ago. And yes, I did press the Dim button to exit the linking mode. Joe

I have been fairly quiet over the past several releases, but the time has come to reveal the continuance of the Black RL Battery Vampire! (I skipped 2.8.7 because the email situation did not effect me with 2.8.6.) It was somewhere around 2.8.2 that the battery life started being sucked out of the BLACK RL. Some of you new people probably did not have the wonderful experiece of the Black RL having very short battery life: To catch you up, for a period of time the Black RL's had a battery life of 1-3 days. NO ONE could figure it out...Then it was gone! Now, you have to understand it DID NOT happen with the Silver RL's just the black ones. Anyway, for me, it's back. I just up graded to 2.8.8 and will now see if the issue has been resolved. I know those who experieced this will be interested. Please let me know if you have similar experiences. Joe Other than that possibly unrelated issue 2.8.8 woks seamlessly.

Finally was able to reinstall 2.8.2. Took quite a few tries, with a reinstallation of the security cert as well. One other thing I noticed in the config panel was that in 2.8.3 there was not the standard climate displays: temp, rainfall, etc. There was just a WeatherBug link which was useless. Joe

Not so much for me. None of my devices report and I can't even revert back to 2.8.2. Tried rebooting several times; tried reloading the 2.8.3 I get the "Upgrade Failed :Failed uploading file (reported written size is invalid) message every time; yes I cleard the Java cache several times. No luck; stuck. Joe

On another note: When trying to Right Click on a device which is near the bottom of the Main window tab (on the left) the last one or two devices will not show the function menu; Query, Rename, Disable, et al. Not a problem because you can move the device you need up to the third spot above the bottom and the right click works fine. ISY 99 Pro IR with 2.7.9 installed. Joe

gfridland: Yes, I ugraded from 2.7.7 to 2.7.8 without any issues. I have 223 nodes. Joe

Good question considering that I'm running 2.7.8 with 137+ devices and it works fine. What is the definition of a node and how is it calculated? Joe Nodes are generally how many scenes a device can control. A responder only device is also a node. Nodes: A SwitchLinc is 1 node LampLinc, 1 node 6-button KPL = 5 nodes An 8-button KPL is 8 nodes MotionSensor, 3 nodes IOLinc 2 nodes etc. An ISY scene is a node A scene with another controller is a node, but is already counted from the controller. Not Nodes (for example): iLinc InterfaceGo IES touchscreen Rand Rand: So according to my calculations I have 223 nodes being run by an ISY 99 Pro IR with 2.7.8 and everything is working perfectly...Go figure. Joe

Good question considering that I'm running 2.7.8 with 137+ devices and it works fine. What is the definition of a node and how is it calculated? Joe

sk8er02: Did you close all browsers and clear the Java Cache after installation? Joe

I have the four tstat entries as well. They are not going to bother me for the forseeable future, but I am curious as to the resolution of this issue. Other than that everything is working fine... Joe

Happy New Year Smileyw! Yes there is. You must add the thermostat adapter by using the Start Linking pull down item under the Link Management tab. Use the set button on the tstat adapter and follow the on-screen instructions. Joe

Dougos2: Happy New Year! Please go to http://universal-devices.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=925049a46bfb51d5dae90f527&id=de858e3b1b to sign up for the new releases. You will be sent instructions as to how to upgrade. Joe

Michel / UDI Team: Thank you for all your hard work. Happy New Year! Joe