jmed999

In the climate module I see "Average Wind Speed". This is the average over what duration? Thanks!

My evapotranspiration is running about 0.12" per day. So at 0.25 intervals my system is watering real often for recent weather conditions. I watered way less than this last year. I'm not looking forward to my water bill, lol! How can I check the accuracy of the ET for my location? Thanks guys!

BTW, I figured out that the irrigation information changes at 12:05 AM. I figured this out by setting a notification every minute between 12 and 12:30. The one at 12:05 is the one with the new info.

I'm afriad this would still look weird.

This is a good idea...may do this!

What would the insteon switch control? When you say keypad...are you talking about a keypadlinc? If so wouldn't that still have the same issue as the switchlinc?

I have 3 switchlincs on that wall side by side. The faceplate is similar to this one (except mine is white)... http://www.lowes.com/pd_24532-334-PJ263A-SPL1_0__?productId=3366722&Ntt=3+gang+plate So do I remove the switchlinc for the fan and make it hot all the time? If so, how do I make it so the wall doesn't look weird when going from 3 switches to two? Since the wall is cut for 3, I'm not sure how to go to 2 or what other options are available to go in that swichlinc's place (ie. keypadlinc, remotelinc, etc.). I guess I could just leave the switchlinc on all the time but not sure how practical that is. Any suggestions to this problem? Thanks!

I just installed the fanlinc in the master bedroom ceiling fan. The fan power is controlled by a switchlinc. I'm wanting to control the fan light and motor via a remotelinc 2. The remotelinc is setup as 8 scene toggle mode. I can't figure out the best way to control the light and motor with the remotelinc. At first, I programmed 1 button to change a variable which sets the light on the fanlinc on and off. I then programmed the second button to change a variable which rotates through the fan's off, low, med, and high. The problem with this is the switchlinc must be on for these programs to work. If the switchlinc is off the programs can't communicate with the fanlinc. So what is the best way to control a fanlinc using a remotelinc when the power is controlled by a switchlinc? I would like to only use 1 button for the light and one button for the fan motor. Any suggestions??? Thanks for the help!

Nothing is magical about midnight. I was told the values change at midnight. I don't care when they change, I would just like to get a notification for those items right after the change happens. So when do these values change from one day to the next? If it's 12 midnight I'll set the notification for 12:01AM, if it's 2AM I'll set the notification for 2:01AM, if it's 4AM I'll set the notification for 4:01AM. So nothing is magical about midnight. Anyone know when these values change from one day to the next? Thanks! PS. Maybe I could set up a program to get the values in a notification every 30 minutes for one night. This would tell me when they change

I've been tracking this for several days now. The notification I get at 12:01AM for ET, water def, and irr req are different from the admin console when I wake up. I'm thinking something happens between 12:01 and when I wake up around 7AM that changes those parameters. What could be changing? This has happened on several days when it hasn't rained and the irr system didn't run. Thanks!

Thanks for your help! This gives me a few things to check. I'm wondering if there's some link between the two that I don't know about. I'll report back what I find out.

I have no programs or scenes associated with SW#1. SW#2 has a scene that makes it a 3-way with SW#3. SW#2 and SW#3 are in 1 program that simply turns the fan off after 10 minutes. These programs or scenes do not have SW#1 in them at all.

Seems weird to me, also. When you turn on switch#1, nothing happens to switch#2? What happens is switch#2 is already on and you turn ON switch#1? You have no programs triggered by switch#1? If everything is off and you turn on SW#1 with a single tap, nothing happens to SW#2. If SW#2 is on then you turn on SW#1 with a single tap then SW#1 turns on and nothing changes with SW#2. If everything is off, double tapping SW#1 will change the state of SW#2 but not single tapping. If SW#1 and SW#2 is on and you turn SW#1 off...SW#2 changes to appear off but the fan continues to run and the other SW (SW#3) that is in a 3-way still looks on.

I have a guest bath that has 4 switchlincs. Two switchlincs are by the door and switchlinc #1 controls the lights and switchlinc #2 controls an outlet. The other two swicthlincs are in a different location in the guest bath. Switchlinc #3 controls the fan and switchlinc #4 controls another light. I thought it was odd to have one of the SW control an outlet so I created a scene such that SW #2 is a 3-way with SW #3. So now the 2 SW by the door controls the lights and the fan (and an outlet that nothing is plugged into thus ignored). So that's the setup. Now for some reason if I walk in the bathroom and turn on the lights (SW#1) then the fan (SW#2) everything goes as planned but when I turn off the light (SW#1) the LED light on SW#2 goes down to the off position but the fan and SW#3 is still on. Also, if everything is off, and I walk in the bathroom, double tap SW#1 on, SW#2 LEDs go up indicating it's on but the fan doesn't start and I never touched that SW. Can someone tell me how to solve this? Seems weird to me. Thanks!

Thanks guys! You all nailed it yet again!

When I start the test program I just simply run the "then" part of that program. Nothing else triggers this program.

I was doing a catch can test today to determine how much water is provided by my sprinkler system in one are of my yard. To do this I wrote a program for a couple zones that applies water to that area. The program is below... If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then Set 'Sprinkler System / 3-Front Right (Near Driveway)' On Wait 45 minutes Set 'Sprinkler System / 2-Front Middle' On Wait 15 minutes Set 'Sprinkler System / 2-Front Middle' Off Send Notification to 'My e-mail' content 'Lawn Sprinklers Stopped' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') The problem is about 30 min into this program my sprinklers on zone 3 stopped. The device status for zone 3 continued to say "On" even though the sprinklers stopped. I queried and it still said "On". After the 45 min run time the middle zone turned on. I have noticed this before while doing the catch can test. Anyone have any idea what could make the zone 3 sprinklers stop? I had the level 3 event viewer on but when the sprinklers stopped the event viewer didn't have anything related to that sprinkler zone. I'm wondering if the zones are stopping prematurely while I'm asleep. Any ideas? Thanks!

if: s.variable.name = or >3 Then: whatever you want it to do

I think this would be possible using variables. Ie. Create a state variable that numerically increases by 1 with every tap. Then have a program run when the variable =3. You could then have the variable = 0 ten seconds after the switch is tapped. This would give you 10 seconds to make the 3 taps.

So why filter the PLM if you are still going to get powerline signals?

DOes the access point not accept the RF signal and rebroadcast an RF signal and powerline signal? Thanks!

ELA, that is some great info and helps some of us that aren't experts understand how the RF/powerline works! I had never thought about plugging the PLM into a filter! That's a good idea for a test if you are having comm problems and all your devices are dual band or RF only. Thanks for the insight!

Well I got home and unplugged the UPS form the wall. The ISY and all the other electronics is plugged into the UPS so when I unplugged it they still ran on batt power. I tried the keypadlinc button B time and time again. It work flawlessly every time. I then plugged a filter into the wall and the UPS into the filter. The KPLs still work great! Thanks for the help guys! Both of you were right yet again!

Yup. It may not be THE problem, but it is almost certainly A problem. Filters are cheap. I have a ton of filters not in use. At the beginning of my project I added them all over the place to later find out that made things worse. In some case it makes things worse in other cases (like my UPS, I hope) it makes things better.

Thanks Lee! "There are too many network issues posted on various forums to think Dual Band technology is the solution to Insteon communication issues." I agree that's why I was confused!