Michel Kohanim

Randy and Frank, It pleases me to note that you have answered your own questions!!! In short: You do need network connection for the following activities: 1. To configure your INSTEON devices using your computer 2. If you want to access ISY remotely, say, from your work 3. If you want to access ISY on your Microsoft Media Center TouchPanel/Tablet PC 4. If you want ISY to be able to send email/sms notifications to the outside world If you are done with step 1, you are 100% happy with your configuration, and you don't care about 2,3, and 4, then you can simply unplug the network cable from ISY and everything should still run normally. With kind regards, Michel

sloop, Thanks so very much. Please find my comments below. With kind regards, Michel Yes, the answer is YES. The only difference may be the onlevels/ramprates which are different for the scene as opposed to the button (unless you use copy attributes from ... ) You wouldn't want to do this at all. It just adds too much overhead to the network/communications and the results are not always predictable.

black_fx_35, All we need is an RC-5 compatible signals. You can choose almost any RC-5 code (such as 205, 255, 65) and assign it to your Harmony. It's just like programming Harmony to work with a specific device with the exception that you have hundreds of options to choose from! With kind regards, Michel

FrankG, You have legitimate and valid concerns. Hopefully by the time 99.9 is out so is the beefed up PLM. We are currently testing PLM v.57 which supports more than 2000 links. So, you should be OK for a while. In order to keep the cost down, we have incorporated the IR sensor right on to the hardware platform which means that your remote should be within the line of sight of your 99.9. This said, however: a. We have saved so much on the cost that you can probably get 2 of those RFIR pyramids and still will have paid less than what you would be spending on a more complex solution from UDI b. If you feel like running wires, you can use IR extenders which are much less expensive than the RFIR solutions c. You can use our triggers to send and X10 command when an IR command is received. I am not sure how that would help though With kind regards, Michel

FrankG, At a high level: 99.9 is based on a new hardware platform It supports a lot more devices/scenes It has an optional IR sensor capability So, to answer your questions: If you want IR integration/sensor, then you'll be wasting $300 on ISY-26. If you don't want IR, and you don't have that many devices/scenes (256 max), then you'd be wasting your money on 99.9. 99.9 can be programmed using almost any IR RC-5 code. All you have to do is to assign, let's say RC5 code 65, to one of the physical/logical buttons on your Harmony. With kind regards, Michel

C Martin, Yes, you are 100% correct: it does precisely that! With kind regards, Michel

CopyRon, By 6 events to you mean 6 devices? If so, the above code should work. Otherwise, I am not sure what you mean. Would you be kind enough to elaborate? With kind regards, Michel

C Martin, My pleasure! You can use the "Ctrl" button when downloading a zip to MAC to stop it from automatically unzipping the file. I am not sure why your Vista does not work. Please do keep me posted. Yes, we have plans for the future products to have a USB connector. With kind regards, Michel

Hello aLf, No updates from SH yet (i.e you cannot expect the KPLs to respond to the All On/Off commands disseminated from CLs/RLs/ISY). So, at the moment, the only possible solution is as you had previously implemented: -Put all your devices and KPL buttons in an All Off scene as responders. On the KPLs, make sure you add the sub-buttons before the load -Make sure you do not put the KPL button that's controlling this scene (if any) in the same scene Now, everytime a schedule/trigger turns off the scene, all those backlights should turn off as well. I think the problem we were having last time had to do with the PLM communication problems. So - whenever you get a chance - please do try this scenario and let me know how it goes. Thanks so very much, With kind regards, Michel

Hello deeepdish, Please make sure to register your ISY (http://www.universal-devices.com/register) and then send an email to tech@universal-devices.com . With kind regards, Michel

MikeB, Please do make sure to get the latest ELKRP Software and ELK Firmware from Elk. With kind regards, Michel

CopyRon, I am not sure what you mean by: You still need schedules (programs) which are created to turn off a scene. As such, you can delete all schedule events which are created for each individual device within a scene. Here's an example which turns on/off the Backyard Scene depending on the time of day: If From Sunrise - 1 hour To Sunset (same day) Then Repeat Every 2 hours Set Scene 'Back Yard' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one press 'Action') Please do let me know if this makes sense With kind regards, Michel

C Martin, Excellent post! The first thing you should do is to use http://www.universal-devices.com/beta instead of the Logon to MyISY URL simply because I know for a fact you are running the Beta 2.5. If you use the Logon to MyISY URL, you will have a client/firmware mismatch which explains why you don't see the tabs on either of your IMAC and Vista. Next, My Ligthing should appear in Network dialog in Vista. This has been thoroughly tested and currently used by many ISYers. If you don't see My Lighting in Network, then you might have setup your Vista Network for "Public" places which prevents all UPnP traffic. In order to access ISY directly (without going to our website), please do the following: 1. Go to our website using http://www.universal-devices.com/beta 2. Login to the Admin Console 3. Choose Help->About and write down the value for My URL 4. Create shortcuts and/or put that URL in your favorites in Safari The only problem with step 4 above is that ISY might be given a new DHCP assigned IP which causes your shortcuts/favorite links not to work in the future. To alleviate, you have three choices: A. Make ISY use static IP address B. Configure your router to make ISY's DHCP lease permanent C. If your link fails, simply redo steps 1,2,3,4 above With kind regards, Michel

Hello Ron, Apologies for the delay in my response. YES. Absolutely! You can trigger/schedule scenes. Simply look for the name of the scene in the "Then" block. And, as per Mark's comments, all you have to do is to keep that button in the scene. Are you trying to do something more elaborate? With kind regards, Michel

gatchel, The documentation you are referring to, alongside all the other new features in 2.5, do not exist yet and shall be available when 2.5 is released. At a high level, the procedure is VERY simple: 1. Configure your lights/scenes the way you like them within ISY 2. On the Configuration tab, choose ELK and enter the ELK's M1XEP's IP and Port. Click on Save ... now ELK will communicate with ISY over the network 3. On the same pane, click on Export ELK Configuration and save it to a file 4. Go to ELK RP, right mouse click on lighting, choose Import. In the ensuing dialog choose Universal Devices' ISY-26, and then choose the configuration file exported from ISY 5. After the import is done, choose "Future Use" column for all the scenes/devices for which you do NOT want X10 commands sent out (X10 slows the response time) 6. Save it to ELK (using the Send button) That's about it. With kind regards,

Mark, That's the whole point: whatever is linked to your CL is turned on/off when you click on the All On/off button. If you want all your lights to be controlled by All On/Off, then you have to have all your lights linked to at least one of the buttons on your CL. What you are witnessing has nothing to do with the 6th phantom button. With kind regards, Michel

Hello aLf, There's no hard limit. The only trouble you may run into is that your logs (default is 3MB) are going to get full, have to be truncated, and start back from the top which is a resource intensive process during which time, in all likelihood, ISY will not allow any other operations to complete. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, You don't have to set them up. By assigning different devices to different buttons, they automatically end up in the All On/Off for that CL. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, As I mentioned before, we already do support the All On/Off button on CL, RL, and ISY. At the moment I don't see why we would want to support a phantom button regardless of the level of difficulty since there are much more important features to implement. With kind regards, Michel

mdcastle, I am so glad that your upgrade was installed without incidence. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions/comments/concerns/suggestions. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, Because we have to know the status of physical buttons ... dealing with phantom buttons is like dealing with ghosts: you might experience strange behavior and not know where it came from. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, That feature has been available for a very long time now. The only thing we do not support is the 6th button on the ControLinc. With kind regards, Michel

Hello upstatemike, No! ISY does not support phantom buttons. All on/off are already supported by the virtue of your INSTEON devices being linked to the PLM. As such, you can use My Lighting to send an All on/off to the whole system. With kind regards, Michel

Hello Brian, Yes, it is possible in our 2.5 release which we are now beta testing and which you can use to test your scenario. With kind regards, Michel

sloop, The PLM does not care about whether or not your KPL controls a load and, therefore, you still have 422 links! With kind regards, Michel