Guy Lavoie

Others will hopefully reply, but I don't think the 800 works. You might have to look on ebay. I see some there.

Can you see it in your router's connected device table? That's how I initially find a new UDI device. Then in the IoX launcher, I click on "add" and put (for example) "http://192.168.0.155". That will usually show it.

Yes! The Zooz 700 series usb zwave stick

First step: if you go look at one of these lights in the admin console (in the device list) and turn them on or off at the switch, do you see the status change on the screen?

Mousetrap automation. Wow...I hadn't thought of that. I almost wish I needed one!

What do you have in the pavilion that needs to be controlled, and how many? Does your IP network work well there, wifi or wired? If so, there might be IP based devices that you could use instead of Insteon for that location.

I can choose between my eisy and Polisy directly on the app, at least for local access. If you're accessing them through the portal, they will likely each need their own account. If the number of devices is limited in two of the buildings, you could use one eisy as a "master" (the one with most devices), and use the networking module to send REST commands to the other two. It would require more programming, but would make it look more like one large system, all controllable from one account.

For posterity...what did you end up doing?

1- you can usually choose the backup file by browsing your computer 2- Could you see the status changes in the admin console when operating the switches manually? 3- If the switches are already listed in the admin console, did you delete them first?

What's that saying: opposites attract?

Seriously though, if you're in Canada and looking to buy a eisy, I'd do it now. Sale price at Canadian distributor is ending tomorrow Feb 3rd, and if it gets hit in this tariff war, it could jump up an extra $100.

And let's not forget the groundhog's prognosis.

So around Jan 41st or so... Always out for a laugh here, it'll be ready when it's ready.

The Venstar T7900 has that capability, and there is a plugin for it. But the plugin itself doesn't have the ability to switch heating mode to auxiliary.

Not for long...

If you have other routines using fast-ons on other switches, do they still work?

Oh my, my first computer was a TRS-80 model 1. The best $1000 I ever spent. The things I learned with it, including assembler programming, served me so well for my 40 year IT career.

The eisy uses unix commands. This will be very different from any controller previous to the Polisy and eisy. As for copying files in and out of it, the "scp" is what's available. Thankfully Windows supports scp. There is no ftp, rlogin, rcp, rsh or any of those in the eisy.

That 5.9.1 has me intrigued. And I'm not alone...

Well wait a bit... Maybe you have another issue that's affecting performance, like something stuck in a tight loop, making it slow. Is the eisy itself unusually hot to touch? If you look at the "summary" tab under programs, does anything look unusual in the "Activity" column? Anything strange like "running" constantly or even "out of memory"? You could try disabling some of the programs that appear to be running constantly, as a test.

Just for fun, I created a scene with a Jasco z-wave on/off module as a controller, and an Insteon wall switch as a responder. It works; turning the Jasco module on and off controls the scene perfectly. So the eisy can certainly use z-wave devices as scene controllers.

If you look at one of your z-wave switches in the admin console device list and turn the switch on and off manually, does it's status update in the admin console? If so, then you could look for the status change using a program, and have the program correspondingly turn the scene on or off.

You mention migrating. From a ISY994i to a eisy? Are you reusing the same PLM or is this a new one?

Yes, you can program the eisy to send a "query" to the IOLinc. This asks the module to send it's current status. I do this with a garage door opener application. The IOLinc is not a dual band module, it's powerline only. This makes it more likely to lose a signal transmission if it activates a motor driven device that produces electrical noise. To poll it's status regularly, you could schedule a bunch of hourly requests, such as like this for every 15 minutes: If Time is 8:00 Or Time is 9:00 Or time is 10:00 .... Then Set (IOLinc name) Query Wait 15 minutes Set (IOLinc name) Query Wait 15 minutes Set (IOLinc name) Query Wait 15 minutes Set (IOLinc name) Query But before doing all that, try activating the gate with your program, then wait for the time it takes the gate to open or close, plus 10 extra seconds, and then adding a query statement after that. This would have it queried after the time that the motor has finished opening or closing the gate, when the electrical noise has stopped. See if that makes a difference.

Here is my idea about how it might all work (just speculation based on what I've read so far). Matter is an IP addressable protocol, so it would likely have a very well defined set of instructions and definitions for generic support. Much like "Class compatible" USB devices that need no drivers. As for physical layer, it supports both straight IP (hardwired and wifi) and Thread, which is a mesh network, like Z-wave and others. Battery powered devices will likely use Thread. Both both physical layer types support IPv6 addressing. Think of it as a type of dual band capability similar to Insteon, though I don't know of devices can act as repeaters across both physical layers the way Insteon does. Thread uses 2.4 GHz frequency, like Zigbee. I saw somewhere that the Zmatter dongle will use the Zigbee antenna for Matter too, which would make sense. So it would appear that the Zmatter dongle could be the equivalent of a wifi access point, but for Thread. Since both physical layers support IPv6, maybe the dongle will create it's own subnet and act as router? Who knows. Straight IP wifi or hardwired Matter devices probably won't need the dongle at all if you don't have any Thread devices. I can't wait to find out how wrong I am!