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Oddly, it's the two v35's that show events! I have a hardwired phase coupler wired to a breaker in my home's circuit panel, AND I have two plug-in access points plugged into outlets on opposite phases. I also have two FilterLincs on two power strips with electronics plugged into them, and I have of course, the PLM modem that is used with the ISY, which also acts as an access point, IIRC. I just tested most of my Insteon switches, including a couple triggerlincs, some on each phase. Only one of the triggerlincs gave a response registered in Event Viewer and of course, the old v35 switchlilncs. About 7 or 8 other switches were tested on both phases and none showed info in Event Viewer set to show Device Comm. Events. Regardless of this, I don't feel like there are any (or few) communication issues across my Insteon network as my 3 triggerlincs work 99% of the time and all of my hardwired switches work 100% of the time, including a couple of 3-way setups (I can't remember the last time a switch didn't communicate properly with another in a master-slave relationship). Also, I have a couple of other programs in ISY that do work properly 100% of the time (outdoor timed lights talking to appliancelincs plugged in outside for lighting) and the aforementioned program that keeps the kitchen lights dim after 5pm. Another test I did was to use my ipod with Mobillinc to turn devices and scenes on/off and they all work flawlessly. But to make sure ISY was listening and receiving the info, I had the admin console open and watched the device list change from off to on as I switched each device on and off via the ipod. Strangely, while using the ipod to switch lights on/off, the Event Viewer showed all events for each device turned on/off. It just won't show the events if I tap physically at the switch itself (except for the kitchen 3-way for some reason). Hopefully some of this extra info will help shed some additional light on the problem, or help us narrow it down at least. Thanks again for the quick reply. - Vinnie

Hi Lee, Thanks for the reply. FYI, I didn't mention before but this is a single switchlinc dimmer I'm using to control the nook light (v.38). I checked the program summary and can't find anything that indicates Not Saved. I did make sure to click Save Changes after writing the program to make sure it was saved so I don't think that's a problem. Status says "False" Last Run time is the last time I manually started the scene from within the admin interface. When I open the Event Viewer, I don't get any events listed no matter how I press that switch -- regular on, double-tap fast on, hold to dim/brighten. I tried the various levels in event viewer but never get any events from it. I don't get any from my dining room light switchlinc either. Oddly, I do get events from my three-way switchlincs set up for the kitchen lights when I tap them (these are the only two older version SL I have in the house, which are v.35 if that matters). But I do know that the admin console can communicate with the device because I can use the admin console to turn that light on and off either singly or as part of a scene. Not sure why there are no events showing though.

Hi, I have an ISY-99 IR Pro. I have it working fine with my Insteon switches and triggers. I have timer based schedules and they also work fine in the ISY-99. I added a new scene called Dinner tonight. It turns some lights on and others off. If I go into the admin console and turn the scene on or off, it works and the appropriate lights come on or go off. However, I want to trigger this scene by double-tab (Fast On) my kitchen nook light. So I wrote a program called Dinner Time that looks like this: IF Control 'Kitchen Nook Light' is switched Fast On Then Set Scene 'Dinner' On Else -- No Actions -- But it never works. It's "enabled", but if I double-tap the top of the nook light, it just turns on the nook light at full brightness (the default action with no programs running). I have another program that traps double-tap (fast on) for my kitchen lights and then resets them to 80% if it's in the evening (I don't want them ever turned on full brightness at night). This program works great. My new Dinner Time program should work similarly (triggering on Fast On) except that it turns a scene on, but it doesn't work at all. Any ideas on things I should check? I'm sure I'm just missing something stupid that's staring me in the face! Thanks in advance, -- Vinnie

Here's the phase coupler: http://www.smarthome.com/4816A2/SignaLi ... ler/p.aspx It's no longer for available (which seems a shame because they still sell the 3-wire version), but it says it can be used for Insteon and X10 and for the past 6 months has worked great to solve some initial miscommunications I had with a couple of linked switches. Initially I did all the linking by creating a scene in the software and adding both switches as controllers to that scene. I didn't do any manual links on these two switches prior to adding them. I only did the manual set-button linking later after it failed to see if it was a software issue or if the switches simply could not be linked. They linked manually the first time I tried, so then I knew the hardware was good and I had to start looking at the software config. I actually ended up getting this working by ultimately removing the slave Icon switch from the software, then doing manual linking at the switches using their set buttons, then adding it back into the software with the option to preserve eixsting links. The software created its own scene this time (whereas I created a scene and dropped both switches into it the first time which worked for other 3-way linkings around the house but failed here), and this time it brought the switches in but showed the slave as a responded not a controller in the scene). I removed the slave from the scene, re-added it as a controller and now it seems to work. No idea what the ultimate reason for the issue was, but with manual linking it seems to be better. I have set up other icons in 3-way setups through the software prior to this and they've always worked, so that's why I was surprised when this one gave me such problems. Although, I think all the others did have their original working cross-links already. I can't remember if I added them with the option to preserve links but I don't think I did. I thought tonight was the first time I tried that option during the adding of devices. Regardless, once it started working I quickly backed up the ISY configuration!

I added two new Icons today. One directly controls a lamp load. The other is the 3-way slave that will link to the first one so I can control the lamp from two locations. The master (controlling the load) works fine and is in the ISY software. The slave Icon switch can be detected when I use the software to detect it by pressing it's Set button, but it can't be linked to the first using a scene to make a 3-way setup. After adding it to the scene, the software does a bunch of writes when updating and then reports a -20000 failure error. I can query the device succuessfully in on and off states. I have a phase coupler on the system and all other switches work properly. FWIW: If I use the manual-linking mode (using Set buttons on each switch to cross-link them -- not the software -- I can successfully link them as a three-way circuit. Any ideas?