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I have an older larger installation (~50 switches), but I would say close to 100% of the Insteon switches have failed and thus almost everything is dualband Insteon switches. The installation started back in 2008 and has just increased since then. however, the dual bands are well spread out through the house.

Hi, I was having issues where the commands were not always being sent to the Insteon units. When I looked at the ISY logs and went over them with an installer in the area, he said that he though my PLM was going bad and recommended I buy two new ones for backup and to swap one out to disprove his hypothesis about the PLM. I mistaken bought two of the USB PLM's earlier in the year and when I went to swap the serial one out, I discovered I had this issue. I just bought a Polisy, which will work with both serial and USB, so I will be able to validate if the PLM's are the issues that I am seeing.

Thanks, I do have two 2413u's that are brand new. The wiki seems to state that they will work also and I won't have the issues that you list with the USB dongle. I figure it is going to be better to upgrade to the Polisy and use the 2413U's vs. the out of stock 2413s'.

I looked at the Wiki and it says the Polisy does support the 2413u's (which I have two of). So it appears I can get out of the 2413s debacle by going with Polisy and my two existing 2413u's.

I have the ISY994i and a failing 2413s with over a 100 Insteon devices. I also have 2413u's. It sounds like I can upgrade to the Polisy and use my 2413u's and transfer all my existing programming from the ISY994i to the Polisy

Will that setup work with existing Insteon switches? I'm up for getting a new Polisy and USB Insteon Dongle if I can get out of the 2413s debacle.

I also have my entire house with Insteon. Can you really switch to Zwave or Zigbee and still use Insteon and ISY994?

Yes I did. I just did a factory reset and reloaded my backup file and then reset my P/U back to the original and all seems to be working now. Thanks!

The launcher sees my ISY994i, but when the admin console launches, my U/P isn't valid. Any ideas how I can regain access to my ISY994i. I do have a backup.

thanks. the programs are enabled @oberkc @MrBillI will test this out by changing the programs on the switches that turn on successfully by Time of Day and see if the status command works on them. @MrBill when I do manually turn the switch on, the admin panel tells me they are on, though sometimes I have to query the system to see that it turned on, so maybe they did get partially taken out. I have gone through more Insteon switches bighting the dust from a damn power failure than seems reasonable.

I have had ISY running programs that haven't been touched for close to 10 yrs. now. We had a power failure (days) and supplemented part of the house with a generator. When the grid came back up, my programs that check the status of an Insteon light switch stopped working. If I run the program from the "IF" part in the ISY Admin Console, the program works. In this instance I turn the switch on from the ISY Admin Console. If I turn the Insteon switch on / off at the switch, the program will not execute. The program's are very simple. Check the status of the switch. If it is on, then wait N minutes and turn the switch off. I did a screen grab of the program below. All of this was somehow induced from the power going out. The ISY994i seems to be working fine as I can get into from the ISY Admin console. Programs that are based off of time of day work fine. Anyone have any ideas on troubleshooting this?

There was a topic on this back in 2014, that was for Blue Iris 4. The same method doesn't seem to work in Blue Iris 5. I simply want to take a motion event from a camera managed by Blue Iris 5 and execute a program in ISY994i to turn on a light for 5 minutes and then turn it off. I can't find any instructions on how to do that. I see that there is Polygot mentioned for integration between Blue Iris 5 and ISY994i, but I don't really want to install a nodeserver to just do that type of operation.

i didn't explicitly do a restore device, I just restored the backup and then that mapped the name of the device back to the original name. However all the buttons on the keypad no longer function, even though the Admin Console shows that they are still part of the necessary scenes.... I was in the process of removing all of the references in the scenes to that keypad and adding them back in manually. I haven't completed that yet though... Sounds like I need to redelete it, re-add it and then add it back to all the scenes?

I had changed my PLM to the 2413S at the same time as I upgraded my ISY991 to the ISY994i. Backing up the ISY, deleting the keypad, linking the keypad and then restoring the ISY solved the problem! Thanks!

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