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I'm not home now so I will try again when I get back. Note, however, that yesterday I rebooted both the ISY and the router and the errors started about 3 minutes later! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My email notifications stopped working recently and I looked at my error log and found many of the following error messages! Sun 2017/03/19 10:12:37 AM System -170001 [Network-DNS][Task=22] Failed DNS 2056/rc=6 Sun 2017/03/19 10:12:37 AM System -140000 mobilincconnect.com I have an ISY994i/IR Pro running v5.0.7. I used to use the Mobilinc Connect to access the ISY but now I use a DDNS service. The Mobilinc Portal is still showing as active and I don't have UDI's Portal installed. My ISY's network settings are DHCP with the address reserved on the router. I use gmail with the smtp.gmail.com server on port 587; 1,000 timeout; and using TLS. My HTTPS Server and Client settings are TLS 1.2; Strength -> All; and Verify unchecked. My router has the DNS's set at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 When I first noticed this error I rebooted both the ISY and the router and the emails started working again but pretty soon the error messages started again and the emails stopped! Any thoughts on what is going on?

Ok... here goes... In the original post, step #2 was to select "Automatic Writes to Battery Powered Devices" so that it was greyed out. The THEN statements of the suggested programs has the action 'Write Device Updates' to the specific wireless device. It seems to me that the program action is a 'manual update' and therefore there should be no need to have selected the "Automatic Writes to Battery Powered Devices". Is this correct or do you need to have made that selection in the first place to allow the 'manual update' to work?

Another question... looking for clarification... Am I correct in assuming that enabling and running the program(s) with the THEN 'Write Device Updates' means that I do not need to select "Automatic Writes to Battery Powered Devices" (step 2 of the first post)? Is there a battery downside to leaving that option selected?

I do a slight variation on Paul's setup. I have 3 seasonal variables (Summer, Winter and Xmas). - Summer season --> Summer = 1, Winter = 0 and Xmas = 0. - Winter season --> Summer = 0, Winter = 1 and Xmas = 0 - Xmas season --> Summer = 0, Winter = 1 and Xmas = 1 I then make copies of the ON programs so that I have 3 similar programs but I test for the 3 variables in the IF statement. I then use a program (in v5.0) to set the time variables every day at 1:00am. Today's Date - [ID 013E][Parent 013F] If Time is 1:00:00AM Then $Day = [Current Day of Month] $Month = [Current Month (Jan=1, Feb=2, etc.)] $Year = [Current Year ] Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Then I call on those time variables to set the seasonal variables as needed... here is an example setting the Xmas variable to ON Setting Xmas Variable ON - [ID 0143][Parent 0141] If Time is 8:00:00AM And ( $Month is 12 And $Day is 15 ) Then $iSeason.Summer = 0 $iSeason.Winter = 1 $Xmas.Lights = 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Here is an example of the Xmas Lights ON program Lights On Xmas - [ID 003E][Parent 00E7] If Time is Sunset And $iSeason.Summer is 0 And $iSeason.Winter is 1 And $Xmas.Lights is 1 Then Set Scene 'Back Lights' On Wait 2 seconds Set Scene 'Front Lights' On Wait 2 seconds Set Scene 'Front- Garage Soffits' On Wait 2 seconds Set Scene 'OutDoor Xmas Timers' On Wait 2 seconds $iLights_are_ON = 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Michel, I believe you are right about a program that was looping. I fixed the program and I have not seen any errors since. Thanks

I bought my latest PLM May 25, 2015... that would be significantly less than 2 years! On the back of the PLM it shows: 2413S V2.1 1514 39.00.C2 In the Admin Console it shows: 39.0.C2 v9E / Connected I had a look at the error log for Tuesday and Wednesday (see attached)... Note that I restarted the system on Tuesday evening at 10:32pm and 11:03pm on Wednesday. I assume that something is amiss if the 'Buffers Free: 0'... right? Any more thoughts given these error messages? ISY Error Tuesday and Wednesday.txt

I have had my ISY for some time now and I started encountering problems last night! (I am on version 4.3.26) All of a sudden, last night, the ISY was no longer communicating! The programs stopped working and I couldn't ping the ISY on my network! So I went down and unplugged and then plugged it in again. Similarly, I did the same to the PLM. After a while it started up and everything seemed normal. Then this evening, the same thing happened again! This time I looked at the ISY LED's and saw that, other than the power light, the only light working was the slow blinking of the memory LED! I rebooted the ISY again and everything seems normal in that I can access the devices through Mobilinc. For a while, after this latest reboot, I could not get access through the Admin Console - it would start up, allow me to login and then close! After about 15 minutes I was then able to get in through the Admin Console. I quickly made a backup of the ISY since I have made a lot of program changes over the last few days! Given that I cannot ping the ISY over my home network during these problems I believe that this eliminates the bad PLM issue. Any thoughts on what is going on or how I debug this?

Thanks for the replies. I was away for the last week! I moved the EZFlora and the transformer to another circuit and that didn't change anything! I tried the Show Device Links Table diagnostic test and I get the error "Failed reading device link [-200000/-5]" After reading your reply I searched for communication problems with the EZFlora controller and see that others have experienced similar problems and have been, as you suggest, attributing it to the same problem as the failing PLM's!! Does anyone know if they changed board in the new dual band units? I would hate to buy another expensive controller and find out that it will fail in 2 years! (I see that the warranty is only 1 year on this unit!)

Bump... Any ideas on why the controller would generate communication errors but still allows the zones to operate?

I have 3 EZRain/EZFlora Irrigation Controllers controlling 17 sprinkler zones. Recently I noticed that for one of the controllers, which only has 2 zones connected, the Admin Console shows all 8 zones with the exclamation point beside the devices! I have unplugged and replugged the controller without a change. When I start up the Admin Console I only get an error message (cannot communicate...) for one of the 2 zones. Interestingly I can still control the zones manually and with programs! One of the 2 zones shows a status of OFF regardless of whether it's is ON or OFF. The other zone (which is the one that had the 'cannot communicate' error) doesn't show any status! Any ideas on how I can resolve this issue?

Thanks to everyone for the comments. After reading the comments I looked at the load and realized that one of the dimmers controlled 10 50W lights and the other controlled 4 50W lights. Fortunately I had a box of 7W dimmable LED's at the cottage so I changed 8 of the 10 on the one switch and all 4 on the other. The result was that the cover plate was only slightly warm after several hours. By the way, the box type is metal and the faceplate type is plastic. The two dimmers are side by side so I could pull them out and reorder them to put the on/off switch in the middle, but given that the faceplate is no longer hot I am no longer concerned and so I will wait until another day.

At my cottage, I recently had an electrician do some wiring changes eliminating 3 4-way switches to a single gang box with 3 switches. I installed in that gang box 3 insteon switches (1 KeypadLinc Dimmer and Buttons - 2486D; 1 Dual Band SwitchLinc Dimmer - 2477D; and 1 Dual Band SwitchLinc On/Off Switch - 2477S). I had all 3 switches turned on for a few hours this evening and when I went to manually turn them off the cover plate was hot to touch! Is this normal?

Thanks... I will do the factory reset. Assuming that the Swtchlinc doesn't come with an X10 code pre-assigned... how would this unit have been assigned an address? I haven't had an X10 controller for many years!

I have a light in my swimming pool that I control with a Switchlinc On/Off switch (2467S). The light has not been in use for the winter months. However, shortly after I opened the pool I noticed that the pool light would come on every evening. Yet when I checked with Mobilinc or on the Admin Console the light had an OFF status! I checked through my many programs and confirmed that there no programs turning on that light. So I was totally puzzled as to why it would come on and then eventually turn off with the other lights. If I manually clicked OFF, using the Admin Console, the light would turn off. By coincidence the other night when I turned off the Insteon light in our family room I saw the pool light turn off! The only program I have associated with turning off the family room light is a program which turns off an X10 lamp module. We are currently in the midst of a home reno so the X10 module is no longer plugged in. So I then ran the THEN part of the X10 program which has following lines of code: Send X10 'C2/off (11)' Wait 4 seconds Send X10 'C2/off (11)' (I double the Off command because the first time doesn't always work with the X10's) Interestingly, this program now turns off my pool light!! (the similar X10 program to turn on the X10 module also now turns on the pool light!) Has anyone seen this before?

I have 3 windows in my family room that are quite high. When I moved in, I wanted powered blinds but there was no power supply close to the windows, so I settled on battery packs for the Hunter Douglas blinds. I have regretted that decision ever since! The batteries wear out very quickly and are a pain to replace due to the height. We are about to do some renovations and I want to get power to the windows so I can install powered blinds. All of the power will be taken from a light switch which currently controls a couple of sconces that are being taken out. I am looking for suggestions on what kind of Insteon modules I should consider installing to control the blinds. Note that I want to be able to control each blind individually. Thanks

Thanks... I guess I will have to wait for version 5+

I have tried searching the forum using as many different search criteria but without success! Is there a way to set up communications between two ISY's remote to each other (home and cottage)? As an example, I would like to have a button on a home keypad light up when certain cottage lights are on and be able to turn off the lights by pressing the button. Is this even possible? If there is a thread discussing this I would appreciate someone directing me to it.

Thanks... that is what I hoped the answer would be. This will work well with my programs

Thanks for the quick reply... Does a If Status statement ( "Status 'device' is Off") only trigger when there is a change of status? If so, then great... but if not, then my programs would be constantly triggered when the lights are off which would not be a good thing...

I have several programs within the ISY that are triggered with If Control 'device' is switched Off Or Control 'device' is switched Fast Off Then ........ These programs work well when I physically turn off the switch with a single or double tap. However the programs do not run when I turn off the same device either: - using another program with the command "Set "device" Off"; or - using Mobilinc to turn off the device! Is there some other logic I should be using within the ISY to recognize that the device has been turned off by a 'Set device Off' command or Mobilinc so that my programs run?

Deirwin... I am interested in this because I have a house which has radiant heated floors throughout the basement. However when I looked up the specs on the Trane-Zwave thermostat I see that they have this statement in the specs "Not for use with radiant floor heating systems"! Any idea as to why they have this restriction?

Teken... can you briefly explain how I can access this feature? I cannot find any reference to this in the programs section! Thanks

I wish I could say I fully understand your question... but I don't! Hmmm... your comment makes a lot of sense (should have realized this myself!!) I had installed these switches quite some time ago and always left it on the back burner to try to resolve the issue. So, I opened the two boxes and see that the load is in the bottom box (with the On/Off switch!) and the line is in the top box. I had the dimmer in the top box whereas based on Larry's comment it should be in the bottom box. So I changed the switches so that the dimmer is now connected to the load in the bottom box. I have capped the red wires in the top box, with the On/Off switch (was this what you were referring to Stu?). Now when I turn on the scene it correctly goes to the 60% level and I am able to dim from either switch. Thanks for the help

I tried to find more information on this topic, in the forum, but I couldn't find anything that specifically relates to my situation. Given the many threads on 3 way switch setups it's quite possible that there is one dealing with this so if anyone can direct me to another thread I would appreciate the link. My situation is that I have some lights on a stairway with switches at the top and the bottom. I installed a Dual Band Switchlinc Dimmer switch at the top and a Dual Band Switchlinc On/Off switch at the bottom. I then put them both into a scene with both devices as controllers. My issues are as follows... I cannot dim the lights at all! The scene has the On level of the dimmer at 60% but when I turn on the scene the current state shows as 60% for the dimmer and simply On for the On/Off switch, and the lights are at 100%. When I press on the dimmer's paddle nothing happens unless I do a hard press to bring it to 100%. Does this setup actually work? I seem to remember reading quite some time ago that this was feasible! Does it matter which switch is connected to the load?