scotcarter

It's alive!!!! I got a little excited and forgot to take photos as well but the steps listed on page 1 are right on. I did vary slightly so here is how I did it. 1. Open the PLM and remove the daughter board. 2. Take out the power supply board (larger one) and use some helping hands or a small vise to hold it. 3. I used a soldering gun with a large tip. I did have a bowl with a wet pot scrapper laying in it to wipe off my tip. 4. Get the gun hot and wipe the tip on the pot scrapper. Then on the back side of the board heat up the solder under the cap while prying slightly from the front. When the solder melts it will just pull right out. 5. Next take your new cap and from the front place the tip of the positive lead (the long one) on the correct solder pad. Place the iron or gun on the cap lead near the board. When it gets hot the lead will just drop right through the board until the negative lead touches. 6. Do the same with the negative lead. Just as the negative leads passes into the board, I was able to get my guns tip to touch both leads and could just push the cap all the way down. 7. Flip the board over, add a little more solder, break off remaining leads. 8. Repeat for the remaining 4 caps and put back together. Took me about 20 minutes and mu house is now smart again!!! Thank you all for how to and parts list. 7 bucks beat 80 any day!

Well find out! I just placed my order....

Two years would be just about right! Thanks for the link, I will be replacing the caps myself.

This morning none of the programs I have set ran. Unplugged everything plugged back in but still no good. I seem to have several issues I think. 1. One mobilinc doesn't connect with a message about Your ISY is not connected to our servers. I have a working internet connection and I can see the ISY from my PC. 2. When I look at the ISY from my PC is says I am in safe mode. Not communicating with the PLM. Also when I click on programs I get, Could not open config file to read [CONF/INSTENG.OPG]. I restored an older backup but same thing happens. 3. Should the LED on my PLM be on? It is not! I unpluged it held the button while plugging back in and continued to hold for 3 seconds to reset it. But the LED never came on. Thanks in advance for helping me get my system back up!

I like the way the Icon toggles on and off. Made what I was looking for real simple!

Agree that the LED it way way to bright. I also bought an ISY 994i ir pro so I could use my tv remote but because the LED is so bright I can't. Thought about going to Radio Shack and replacing it with a dimmer one, or just use a black marker and color it in! Would be cool if it were adjustable like the switches LEDs are.

Just got home and now things are working like I hoped they would. Original issue was I had no scene setup in the ISY for the two switches. That was made locally at the switches themselves. Then I had them in the scene as responders and not controllers. Now I have them as controllers and things appear to be working as they should. In Mobilinc on the My Devices tab I have all my switches listed including Master Bedroom 1 and Master Bedroom 2 (my 3-way circuit). If I click into either one of them so I can see the different options to control that switch; on, off, fast on, fast off; and turn it on from there, then that switch only shows as on in both Mobilinc and the ISY web interface. But, big BUT here! If I stay on the My Devices screen where all switches are listed and tap the icon for the master bedroom switch 1 or 2 it acts like I turned the scene on or off (toggles) and both switches status react together. YEAH that's was what I was hoping for. I never tried to tap the icons to toggle the lights on or off. This is even better now cause I don't have to leave the devices tab at all but to look at my cameras. Thanks for all yaws help! Update: Found only one thing that doesn't seem right but I can live with it. If I send an on command from inside the Mobilinc panel for switch 2 only the light doesn't come on. I can tap switch 2s icon and it does. Switch 1 (has the load) controls it from anywhere. Oh well can't have it all!

Was playing around with the if control and nothing was happening. Then I found out that control only works from the switch and not from the web interface. I also just found out that my scene should have had the switches listed as controllers and not responders. I am going to change them to controllers to see if that helps when I get home since its hard to actually push a button from 60 miles away. It was bugging me that I would turn on the light at my master bath and then turn it off when leaving the room at the hall and Mobilinc not knowing that the light is actually off. Since I want to look in one tab only in Mobilinc then I will make my scenes favorites and the lights with only one controller a favorite. I'll just fill up the favorite tab!!!

It's starting to make since. I remember when I was playing around at the house. When I would manual flick switch 1 on, I would hear the relay click in and the status LED would change along with the staus LED of the other switch. If I would then walk across the room to the other switch and flick it on (even though the LED already shows it as on) I would then hear the relay click in. So I guess even though the LED shows on the device itself really isn't. Am I correct in assuming this? I was just trying to accomplish having to only open the My Devices area inside Mobilinc to control my lights and have them all display accurate status's. It appears that wont be the case for rooms with multiple switches controling 1 light. As it is right now I can open the scenes tab and turn my bedroom on or off and both display right. But if I turn it on from the scene and turn it off from a local switch then only that one switch displays an accurate status in the My devices tab of Mobilinc leaving me to wonder is it really on or off. Another example was I turned on switch 1 from My Devices or the switch itself, the light comes on, both physical switches LEDs turn off indicating the light is on. Mobilinc shows switch 1 as on and switch 2 as off. I then turn the light off at physical switch 2, the light goes off and both switches LEDs come back on. Mobililinc shows still shows switch1 as on and switch 2 as off. I just though that if the status LEDs follow each other shouldn't the status's inside the ISY and Mobilinc also follow? I truely appreciate your insight here. I dont want you to think that I am just being argumentative. Just not making sense to me. It will soon click it. No pun intended!!!

Firmware and UI = Insteon_UD994v.3.2.6 When I go into control panel the Java, then on the java tab, then the user tab, I see two; a 1.7 platform with product of 1.7.0_04 and a 1.6 platform with a product of 1.6.0_30. Both are checked as enabled. On the system tab I see just the 1.7. The about Java page show Version 7 Update 4 build 1.7.0_04-b22 Just tried to make another scene and this time it did show up in the list immediately. Go figure! OK, created a scene last night using ISY, added both switches. When I turn on or off the master bedroom scene both switches show on or off inside Mobilinc. If I turn on the master bedroom scene from Mobilinc both switches show on within Mobilinc but if I use one of the switches itself to turn off the light, only that switches shows off inside Mobilinc and the scene now shows 50%. Like I said my Insteon setup right now is very small. Only 4 switches total installed. Only 3 scenes total. 1 is the ISY scene, the Auto DR, and the Master Bedroom I created last night. I’m going to keep reading and performing some trial and error while I learn all of this. I am game to try anything you guys throw at me. The program I setup that was working OK went like this: If status of 1 is on Then turn 2 on else turn 2 off Also had one for switch 2 just opposite of switch 1. This was working until they both tried to run at the same time, then my light started flashing until I disabled the programs. It worked for 2 days! I was trying to think of a creative program that would monitor both switches but not fight like my last two did. I was thinking of something like if status of 1 or 2 is on, the set 1 and 2 on, else set 1 and 2 off. Not sure if I turn the switch off at the switch if the second switch will respond before the ISY sees an on in one and not the other and run the program. Essentially keeping the light on always!

I use Nortons.

Looking at my ISY now and the only scene I have is Auto DR. When I click on either switch in the tree all I see for either is switch name, is controller for, is responder for. That's it nothing else. When I was on the phone with the Smarthome tech guy he said we were setting up a scene so the LEDs would stay in sync. This was done at the switches thought. So do I need to create a Master Bedroom Light scene and add these two switches to it since it didn't create when I added the devices? Remember I only added one device the other showed up on its on with the first one. Just added a new scene and this has happened both times I have played around with scenes. I click on new scene, type a name, hit enter, the new name screen goes away but no scene shows up in the tree. I close the admin console and open it back up and there it is. Any idea why the new scene doesn't show up until after I restart the console?

OK, just read this from another post: Define a single ISY Scene. Add the two switches as Controllers in the single ISY Scene. This will cross link the two switches such that either switch controls the load and the status LEDs of both switches stay in sync. To operate both devices from the ISY or MobiLinc turn the ISY Scene On/Off. Turning an individual device On/Off has no affect on other devices that may be linked to the individual device. Update: devices should only be linked with the ISY. Linking with the Set button creates links the ISY is not aware of. The links can eventually be deleted or overlaid by ISY activity. I did make the links at the switches themselves before ever adding them to the ISY. On the isy I clicked start linking and then pressed the set button on one of the switches. The ISY gave me the option of adding all devices linked with that switch and to keep those links. That was the option I choose, so doesn't that mean that the ISY does know about the links that were made at the switches themselves? I'm still trying to figure all this out.

Hi all, new to Insteon but many year veteran of X10. I am currently swapping out my outdated X10 system Insteon and running into some annoying issues. Currently my main issue is with status’ being updated. Here’s the setup: Main bedroom, 3-way circuit. One switch at bath door and one at hallway door. I have the switches linked properly now (after tech call to Smarthome) so that either will turn light on and off and the status led under each responds accordingly. Now where my lack of knowledge comes, I am using Mobilinc pro and can send an on command to say switch 1 and the light comes on. Both switches indicated that the light is on but only switch 1 shows on inside mobilinc or the devices page in the ISY. How can I get both switches to show the proper status? I tried making a program to check the status of 1 and turn 2 on or off as needed. And another to check switch 2 and turn 1 on or off as needed. This worked a little but then the two programs started fighting and wouldn’t stop flashing the bedroom light! Anyway thanks for any help you can offer.