idkayaker

Waoo!! Brian nice, are u a EE or is this strictly an avocation. I can tell you from experience trouble shooting communication issues like this can be a trying time. I do have professional horror stories. I see you are from east CT. I still have family in Shelton. I also as I write this have I hope that I found my problem. Its the switch. I set up some counters on the program execution and the sensor was communicating motion but the light switch is not turning on. So what i thought was a faulty sensor can be a faulty Switch.

Id be curious to see what an O scope shows on a voltage wave form as CFL and LEDS are added.

Jack great advice from many hours of trouble shooting over many years. good list. so compact florescence are a no no

After much hacking at this thing to impractically determine its behavior I came up with a configuration and program so this thing works the way it should out of the box. I have to say this experience has soured me on Insteon. I've had it in the garage now for almost 24hrs and it seems to be working. Once I went out there and i almost had to hope in front of the sensor before it turned on but it is cool in the garage. Its about 40 deg and the low limit of operation is 32 deg. I bought this new sensor because I felt the previous 2420 sensor Ive had for several years lost performance as it got colder and the off commands didn't always make it to the light switch. Does anyone have similar experience whit the 2844 or older 2420? The new one seems to be turning off the lights more reliably and the lights are staying on while i move about. And its not just about he sensor. Previously I had the sensor control the lights, now the ISY is doing it. From an engineering stand point I've added another point of failure Just to do what the sensor should do and that is reset the countdown timer internally when new motion is sensed. TO improve reliability of turning off the lights I added a 2nd off command in the program to insure that they go off. I'm also going to power the unit from USB currently on battery and I like the performance. The one detail that was nice to see is that they acknowledge the sensor temp reading performs differently on battery and USB. This along with improved communication leads me to think sensor performance and OFF command transmittal's will be more reliable on USB power. I'm also contemplating a second program to insure that the lights are off late at night. It used to be that the previous sensor did not always turn off the lights and they'd be on all night. just a simple thing to run at night. If the lights are on and the motion off for lets say 5 to 10 min the turn off the lights.

Hay guy's my first post on this thread but I've been on a couple of others regarding the 2844. Seems there are quite a few of us that have struggled with the 2844 and lack of goo documentation. I was wondering if anyone would like to collaborate on a real manual for this thing? topics would be configuring it in the ISY. Information about each of the parameters. And the quarks of the unit. like the difference between battery operation and USB. maybe a few program examples to help the uninitiated more easily use this thing in an ISY.

I have the same question where is the legend for the tree icon's?