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So my friend likes honey with his coffee. The coffee of course is automated to him getting up, but he faced an issue that sometimes his local honey would be crystalized and need warming. So he got a coffee mug warmer and automated it to turn on when the coffee started brewing. Used an I/O linc to simulate pressing the button to turn it on low, wait 1s and then press again for high. He did this by adding a cable to the switch on the mug warmer. From him: I used the 2 conductor 18ga SVO. The I/O unit has really small terminals so I had to use 20ga ferrules on the end. I/O lit recommends 20-22ga but SVO seemed like good choice considering kitchen type environment. Signal measured at 5V as we suspected. Wire was soldered to back of PC board and inner standoffs allowed me to run around the edge of the heater housing to avoid heater element with a couple of zip ties. I put a little heat shrink over the cable where it exits just because. The button is still functional. The heater has a timer and turns off after a certain amount of time. Heater starts when I turn on the coffee. I didn’t use any connectors other than the ferrules. The warmer is listed as 21W. I measured .08A on low and .16A on high. Honey Warmer.mov

@johnnyt I have had DST time change issues for very nearly my whole time with the ISY (15 years) and your solution is much simpler than my plan of moving to AZ and finding a new job and life.

On 5.7.0_5 Yesterday I replaced a 6 button KPL. Replace of the links worked well, but the PLM had trouble communicating with a distant device to update its links. Process stopped with to be written flags next to that device. Admin console did not close, and programs did not get updated with new device. I had to manually close and reopen AC after some time and then manually edit each program that had any reference to replaced device.

In response to your post I looked, and sure enough, my sunrise and sunset are both an hour early...

Daylight Saving Time ended last night. Woke up this morning and none of the stuff that should have happened happened. Programs not running. Open admin console and find that all 300 programs are set to 'Not Enabled'. Required manual intervention of 'Restart IoX' to correct.

@Techman Hahaha. New to zwave, but those other nodes got relegated to a holding folder right away. 😉 Good to know that this is just part of the zwave world. Thanks And thanks so much for the wattage threshold parameter test. Not sure I would have realized that as the solution to rapid notifications.

Added Z-Wave to my system. Got the Smart Switch 7. Tweaked Param 21 and now using 2 of these instead of synchrolincs. Thanks @Techman. Will be buying many more. I appreciate the assist. Being new to Z Wave, why does the outlet add with a whole other set of nodes? I end up with 11 nodes from this one device and many of them seem like duplicates. TV Switch and 002.1 Binary Switch seem to be the same thing, and both turn the module on and off. and TV Sense and 002.1 Energy Meter 1 seem to be the same thing

@Geddy That is an interesting idea. I will do that now. @MrBill Thanks for the offer. At this point it is more an exercise in understanding than in needing the Synchrolinc. If I really needed one, I have 1 working backup and @Techman has a great Zwave solution that would get me to move to Zwave which could be fun. If it is a v 1.15, I would seriously consider buying it if you could confirm it adds to and works on the current firmware. I am going to reach out to Insteon support and see what that reveals.

Thanks everyone. After another day of testing I am giving up on this one. I have tried everything I can think of. I even put the synchrolinc behind Insteon filters and plugged a dual band module in with it so it had to use the other devices repeated comms. Still a bad link table. And it still can manually link to and control any device I want. I am at a total loss as to how these two modules fail in this way. Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas.

Thank you so much @Techman No, I have not tried adding a dual band plug in same socket. I can link and control any device, including v1.1 synchrolincs in the test outlet (right next to my PLM). I will try that next, but I cannot see that making a difference. I think I will probably get a zwave option going in the futrue. I really appreciate you doing that test for me. And just to confirm, after you added it, you looked at the link table and all entries were "identical" on a compare test?

Updated to 3.0.26in a full package upgrade from ISY. Restarted PG3 (on Polisy) and my Weatherflow node server had all the forecast nodes (which I do not use, do not have in configuration and previously deleted from the poly) and it also had a node for my defective Tempest which was removed and replace with a new one. Not a big deal, but I did have to delete 11 nodes to clean up my ISY tree. Is this something that will have to be done with each update? Updated to 3.0.27 today via restart node server, and all the unused forecast node came back...

Upgrade to 5.5.4 corrected the issue.

Upgraded to 5.5.4. Added in the Synchrolinc. All still same failures. @Techman Would still love it if you dig a v1.15 out and try to add it some day...

@Techman Factory reset is working. If I check the link table after a factory reset it shows the expected table. And again, directly linking this device to a lamplinc or something will reliably turn that device on and off in response to load changes at the output of the v1.15 synchrolinc. That 3 line link table is the result of a restore device.

Thanks for the attempt at help guys! I thought the i1 comms was a good path to try. So I forced the ISY to i1 comms only and added a factory reset v1.15 to my system. That went extremely poorly with very long writes and an ever more terrible looking link table as a result. I deleted, factory reset, and tried using automatic and device reported. Back to the original bad link tables. Factory reset v1.15 and restore device yields same bad link table and no live status updates. Poor comms are not an issue in my system. I am a power line home automation guy from back in the X10 days, and I learned (was forced to learn) how to have a clean strong power line environment. (capacitive couplers- filter links on every noise make, line sucker - and lots of dual band Insteon devices on both legs.) @Techman Thanks for the zwave device suggestion. That alone will make me get zwave when my last functional synchrolinc fails! And yeah, in a few days, if you could try adding that spare I would appreciate it. I would not advise touching the one that is working in the system just in case I am not crazy. Event viewer of last attempted add attached if anyone is curious. This would have been an attempt at adding a factroy reset v1.15 with the ISY back in automatic comms selection using the 'start linking' and button press on the Synchrolinc method. adding synchrolinc.txt