Michel Kohanim

Hello aLf, Yes, you can do crawl and bring your existing links/scenes. From past experiences with crawl, I personally feel that you'd be spending more time trying to debug that it would take to start semi-fresh (see below). Here are the reasons: 1. In 95% of the cases, there are half links in the devices: a device has a master link and the other devices doesn't have the associated slave link and vice versa 2. You might have added devices that you have since removed but their remnants are still there 3. ControLinc, SocketLinc, and RemoteLinc do not respond to ID Req, so if you start from a device that includes any of these, then you will have to do another crawl starting from them ISY brings in all your links and tries to make sense of them. In most cases it's successful, but if you have too many contradictory links, then ISY simply chooses what it thinks makes the most sense but that might not be the reality. I personally suggest a semi-crawl which means that ISY would try to bring in all your devices but without their links. This way, you will not have to go through adding one device at a time but at the same time you will start with a fresh device database (ISY will overwrite all your existing links). Anyway, here are your options when you add a new device or do start linking: 1. Overwrite existing links --> use this only if you want to add devices one at a time 2. Add devices found in links --> this is the semi-crawl; it brings in all your devices but without their links; it overwrites your existing links 3. Add devices found in links and keep existing links --> this brings in all your links For options 2 and 3 - and if you have any of ControLinc, RemoteLinc, or SocketLinc, please start from them. Also, if you want ISY to find the most number of devices in the first shot, simply start with a device that has the most number of links to any other device. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, Ah, I see now. I bet you moved devices in 2.4.8 which had a known bug where it could not remove some of the links (related to a PLM bug). In 2.4.9, we have put a work-around to alleviate this a little bit. So, would you be kind enough to: 1. If you have your old backup from before 2.4.8, expert your programs, and then do File->Restore ISY and then followed by File->Restore Devices. 2. If you do not have your old back, please remove the KPL button from all your scenes, then remove the KPL itself, add it back, and try again. With sincere apologies for the inconvenience. With kind regards, Michel

linuxguy, If you want to enable remote access to ISY, then please follow the process as what "sloop" kindly and thoroughly outlined in this same thread. If you are not trying to use enable remote access, then all you have to do is: a. Do a test to see whether or not you can get a notification through ISY b. If you do, then you do not have to do anything (your current static IP settings work) c. If not, then make sure ISY is in the same IP range as your router (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1). Change ISY's DNS entry to that of Verizon's and as you outlined. d. Repeat the test I hope this helped. With kind regards, Michel

Rand, As usual, you are 100% CORRECT. There were no export functions in 2.4.8! Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Restore Devices??? With kind regards, Michel I can find no way to Export/Import Programs. When I applied the File->Restore Devices a requestor appeared that my RemoteLinc was not found, Thank you! and Request Failed. But contrary to 2.4, Restore Devices is apparently going through all my devices again, rather than only the failed devices. Which means the RemoteLinc linking mode will probably time out before it is restored. In my case, I haven't changed anything, just thought I would make certain all the devices were in sync, so all it is costing me is some time before I can delve into 2.4.9. Thank you and Owl-b-Baac, Rand

Mark,thanks for your feedback. Alf, Welcome. I am going to supplement Mark's feedback only where necessary: 1. Yes, you can enter your own exact lat long. On Configuration, click on Change Location, and then at the bottom enter your own lat/long 2. You can always checkout http://www.universal-devices.com/supp.htm for the latest firmware, download it, and take it with you to your location 3. YES: ISY knows when a button is pressed and updates the status on the console while giving you the capability to create triggers based on the status or button press. 4. ISY - and for that matter any other device - can not turn on/off the backlight on KPL sub-buttons (such as b, c, d, e, f, g, h). But, if you put any of those buttons in a scene, then you can turn on/off the scene and the KPL's backlight indicator will follow 5. WRT54G is a good router and one that we support. ISY is connected with ethernet cable to your router. If your nosy neighbor has your WEP key + your ISY userid/password then s/he can surely access ISY. If you put ISY on the internet (File->Enable Internet Access), then everyone in the world can access your ISY provided that they know your url and your ISY's user id/password Please don't hesitate to contact us with your questions, With regards, Michel

Mark, Factory resetting ISY should be your last resort and I don't recommend it now. I am rather uncertain at what the problem is you are trying to solve. The KPL sub-buttons (a,b,c,d) do not have levels. Are you trying to turn on the KPL load button using one of its sub buttons? If so, why? With kind regards, Michel

Neil, Yes, looks like a regular AC outlet with one difference: One of the outlets is INSTEON controlled and the other is not. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, This is quite nice. One question though: What you have is strikingly similar to just putting the keypad button in the same group as your lights and assign different onlevel/ramprates for each button light combinations? With regards, Michel

Hello Neil, No worries. These are Beta units and we have not yet been given a date for general availability. I don't know why outletlinc can be against electrical code since X10 + UPB have had similar products for a long time now. With kind regards, Michel

Brian H, With pleasure. With kind regards, Michel

Mike, It's quite simple. You have two choices both of which are outlined in the Advanced Configuration Guide (on the CD or http://www.universal-devices.com/docs/p ... 0Guide.pdf . In short, you have to connect to ISY's shell which can be accessed either by a serial connection to your computer or by telnet. Since you are already on the telnet, simply go to your command prompt (Start->Run->type cmd) and type: 1. telnet isys.ip.address 126 2. enter your user id/password 3. When you get into the shell, type CT (stands for Configure TCP/IP). Notes: 1. For security reasons, the shell commands timeout every 10 seconds so you will have 10 seconds each to enter your ip/netmask/gateway/dns 2. In the shell, all commands and responses are CAPITALIZED ... so, 'y' will never do what you want. Make sure you use 'Y' 3. Please note that some routers do not allow you to use them as a DNS server if you have not been assiged a DHCP address. So, if your notifications stop working, then try using your ISY's DNS server With kind regards, Michel

Hi jbev, UPnP does take care of "the world accessing ISY" but it does not take care of "ISY accessing the world. That is where I think the problem lies: if you've assigned a static IP address to ISY, then - and depending on your router - you have to assign the ISP's DNS address to ISY instead of the router's address. With kind regards, Michel

MikeB, There are no drawbacks. The only "problem" we have found is with certain routers (such as ActionTec), if you use a static IP, and then try to use the ActionTec as the gateway/DNS, it will not let your traffic through. Other than that, we have not had any issues. With kind regards, Michel

MikeB, You are 100% correct. You can use a cross over cable if and only if you setup ISY with a static IP address. With kind regards,

MikeB, Thanks for the update. We are currently retesting the migration step for any inconsistencies. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Mike, Apologies for a tardy reply. It will be implemented, for sure, in the final release of 2.5. Unfortunately, it will not be part of next code drop. With kind regards, Michel Might want to reset the device or try to manually get that button out of toggle mode. Which reminds me - I'd still like the ability to change the toggle mode on the load buttons of a KPL when in 6-button mode. With the current firmware, this has to be done manually at the switch.

Hello Jason, Yes, indeed it's quite nice. Please let us review the security ramifications and figure out what would be the best way of enabling this so that everyone can use it. Thanks again for your suggestion/feedback, With kind regards, Michel

Mark, Thank you so very much for the feedback. This is a know GUI bug which is already fixed and will be included in the next release of Beta (by the end of the week). As far as your original (migrated) schedules which run against My Lighting, please do not do anything with them; they will continue to run. With kind regards, Michel

Mr. Hart, This is an excellent idea! My only concern is security: if you can send ISY and email so does everyone else in the world by simply knowing your ISY's email address. I think we might be able to solve your requirement with our new HTTPS/HTML feature to be out in November. Thanks so very much and please do look for our new features by November. With kind regards, Michel

Anders, My pleasure! You are correct and that's precisely why we are not pushing our UDMobile. I am impressed with your solutions. We shall have our HTML/HTTP(S) based version by November and we would be very interested in your feedback. With kind regards, Michel

Mark, Excellent. Please do let us know if you run into this issue again. Thanks and with kind regards, Michel

Mark, Have you upgraded to release 2.4.8 (= 2.5 Beta) yet? With kind regards, Michel

siegeld, First of all, apologies for the inconvenience. To program a RemoteLinc (drop it into a scene), you should first hold the Bright and Dim button on the RemoteLinc for 10 seconds to put it into programming mode. ISY comes up with a dialog instructing as such but not on releases before 2.4.5. So, please do be kind enough to let me know which release of ISY you are running. Please note that 2.4.5 is a minor version which is not automatically notified. Again, with sincere apologies, Regards, Michel

Mr. Anders, It seems that you are already familiar with AJAX and possibly Java. At the moment, we do have a JSDK (Java SDK) which allows you to create applications/applets. JSDK allows you to do everything we do from our Admin Console. We do not support AJAX (yet) simply because we have a lot more security hooks than a simple HTTPS. Furthermore, we maintain the state of each session for each client, and thus, we make sure the clients are alive otherwise we close the session. We do communicate with external web services from within ISY, but that piece is not configurable. Do you have any specific feature in mind? If you are interested, here is our Developer Forum Thanks and with kind regards, Michel

Hello All, I just wanted to let you know that 2.5 Beta is now available. Thanks and with kind regards, Michel