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I really do not have anything critical especially during the overnight hours. I will disconnect it when I go to bed tonight. If I do not have lights coming on when I unplug it, does that mean it is isolated as a problem emanating in the PLM? I have whole house surge protection and have not had any weather-related surges that I know of. I have a Ting power quality monitor and no surges have appeared before Monday last week. I will get a weekly summary tomorrow that will identify any power surges for any reason that have happened in the past week. I guess that is an indication that my PLM was an improved version, but does not guarantee that it is not failing due to advanced age. Thanks for the information, Brian.
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Just after I responded, a light illuminated, so maybe the restore step either did not properly function or it made no difference.
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I just did a restore PLM command. It paused and then displayed a bar that counted up to 2% before disappearing. Is that a normal response to a restore plm command? I have been waiting to see if the random lights illuminate again. So far, none have after 5 minutes. I will report back if this has temorarily resolved a failing PLM.
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I just had one of my lights illuminate and looked at the program summary tab. Of the 8 programs I have that are enabled, all were idle at the time the light was switched on. I will, at some point, perform a factory reset and restore in case the link tables are corrupted. This situation affects at least 7 lights, and I am still thinking the events are independent.
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Guy Lavoie, I have several programs that are triggered by sunrise and sunset times and are typically offset by minutes. But the lights affected also include lights that are not in programs. I have not determined that there is any pattern involved. Some lights are also linked by several Insteon switches, but some are commanded only by one switch
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paulbates, my dual band PLM is Model 2413S revision 2.4, 2817
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jlloyd_UD started following Lights switch on at random times
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Techman, I upgraded my eisy to version 6.0.0. I had been meaning to do that, and your prompt caused me to get it done. Thanks. After upgrading, the random light behavior remains. I had hoped it would solve the unexplained behavior. I read the article and, to the extent I understand its content, I am not thinking this is a source for my problem. This is not an "all lights on" situation. This is individual lights that come on at unexpected times (middle of the night, for example) when there should be no events that trigger the behavior. So far, there have been no instances where more than one light switches on at a time, and, therefore, these events appear to be independent. When I look at the log I can see where the light switches to an "on" state but there is no indication why it changes its state from "off." What else might I investigate?
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I upgraded my ISY994ir to an eisy several weeks ago, and after some minor problems, I finally got my Insteon devices and programs reinstalled, along with my Alexa "spokens." For the past several weeks, everything worked as it had before the upgrade without any glitches.. Yesterday evening, many, if not all, of my lights were randomly switching on with no command, either by voice or through a program. The lights were switching on in the middle of the night without explanation. I rebooted the eisy (power off and on), and that did not change the behavior. What should I look at to see what might be triggering this unwanted activity? I have just upgraded my subscriptions to Alexa (new voices and more conversational), but I do not think that is the trigger, although it was a coincidental change I made and the random light switching followed soon after. I ask Alexa to switch the lights off and she is able to do that. Does the Amazon change possibly create a trigger signal somehow? I am using IOX version 5.9.1 of the eisy and have a serial PLM, and my Internet is disabled.
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OK, I do have ISY Optimized for Smart Home V3, and it is linked in Amazon Alexa. I searched for UD skill, and it was not found.
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I had no UD skills in Alexa. I am unsure if I have ever had one. I searched for a UD skill that might be available, and none are listed among the dozens of home control skills listed in the Alexa search.
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Geddy, I submitted the ticket and was also steered to ISY Portal Migrate configurations to a new ISY - Universal Devices, Inc. Wiki. With a few clarifications, the migration was done successfully, and my spokens from the previous ISY are now successfully transferred to the new portal UUID. The problem I had was assuming that the UD mobile app did everything, needing only to follow its step-by-step migration. The final migration of the portal configuration was done using the instructions in the established link above. I am now finished with the total migration. I approached it with a little fear and intimidation but with all the help I received I was able to complete the migration. Thanks. Jim
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Just for the record. These are what I found after trying each step. I have an Android. Again, since the portal migration might have happened when you didn't have any devices in the eisy it more than likely wiped out anything that was previously there. When you log into my.isy.io go to "Connectivity" -> Amazon Echo. If the list is blank then you can try hitting the "refresh" symbol now that you have devices in your system, but I don't think that will do anything. ' It did nothing. At this point you might need to open a ticket to see if UD has any "tricks" or tips to get the mappings back, but I think it's not possible. I opened a ticket for this problem Know that Echo and UD Portal are different systems. Just because you don't have items showing in the portal (I'm assuming you mean my.isy.io) don't assume they don't exist on Alexa/Echo. Confirm in the Alexa app that you don't have any devices through the UD Skill. In the Alexa app (on iOS) click the light bulb in the bottom of the app and it should take you to all the devices it knows. Look for anything you think should be a device from the ISY. It has all my devices from the ISY on my Android Alex app. Click on the gear icon on the top right. That should take you to "Settings". In there is an "About" and a "Connected Via". For UD Portal it will just show "UDI". If you find any devices connected that way, but in the UD Portal (again, my.isy.io) you should delete them from the Alexa app. I could not find a "connected via" anywhere. I tried to connect a "hub" in the Alexa app and UD ISY is not a listed hub. I tried other and it could not find it on WiFi. I enabled WiFi on the eisy but it reported a problem (could not verify a WiFi connection) even as eisy said it was connected to a network after updating the network credentials I reconnected the ethernet cord. No, rebooting the eisy does nothing to the portal mapping. If restoring the devices and trying to refresh through the portal page mentioned earlier (in this reply) doesn't re-map the devices then you'll either have to manually redo them or open a ticket to see if there's a magic way UD can help restore them. My bet would be you'll just need to manually enter them again. I have initiated ticket to look for a magic bullet. I have set up some devices but most will not work becasue the UD is not connected, I suspect. There has to be a way to connect the UD. I have it on the local network. Not sure it is accessible via WiFi.
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Thanks again for your advice. I am beginning to believe the portal was wiped clean, but I am trying other approaches. My Echo device is not linking to the EISY, so I am trying to figure out what that means and how to resolve it. It has happened before with the ISY994i when I have had power outages, and I thought a reboot resolved the problem. I will continue to restore the spokens but I will likely have to reinstate them. Most are easy. The fanlincs are a little more troublesome. Thanks again.
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The Potal tab indicates the portal is online and registered and displays my name as registered. Clicking on "more information" identifies my account as a "corporate" account type. I chose not to click on the "revoke" button as I fear it will make matters worse