Eddie Reed

Your comments answered most of my questions. I am going to order a couple of the T1700's today. Appreciate your response/help. -Eddie

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post, but I need advice. I currently use the 99i Pro Controller and am seeking a programmable (compatible) thermostats (multiple thermostats) to use with it. The documentation on currently available thermostats is vague and state they are Insteon compatible. But, lack sufficient documentation to give me a "Warm Fuzzy" feeling. My house is entirely Insteon and I really don't wish to move to the X10 world. What I basically want is a couple of thermostats that I can do control over with my 99i. Desirable features are: 1. Ability to query the current temperature at the thermostat location via the 99i controller. 2. Ability to set the system to cool or heat as required via 99i controller and set the desired temp to maintain. Is something like this available. I appreciate all assistance. Eddie

Michel, Just a follow up... System has been up for two days with all the programs running and is rock solid. Lessons learned. 1. Alway make a backup before any upgrade. 2. If the system acts strangely after a upgrade, download the upgrade again and reinstall. 3. If you have a problem, contact the forums. The support I have received has always been excellent. I think you can close this topic, since all is well. I appreciate your assistance. Thanks, Eddie On a side note, maybe you should consider posting the MD5 hash of the download files, that way users can verify they got the file without corruption.

Hi Michel, I think the problem is resolved. Came home this afternoon and the system is still up and working great (24+ hours). Even have spent the last two hours rearranging devices it, and as usual it just makes amazing things happen quickly. I think the problem is definitely into the category of my update not completing correctly. I did make the jump from a brand ISY system (I think v1.0) to v2.6.4 in one step, and that is a lot to ask of any system. Thinking back the system Administrative Console after the upgrade kept generating connection errors, session time outs and other strange behavior (nothing I had ever seen before). After I reinstalled the upgrade the strange error messages have completely disappeared. I appreciate your help (and as usual great support), but don't thing this is a issue with the ISY. Thanks, Eddie Just for the record. The DHCP lease time is 4 hours. The network is WDS network with 12 devices and four Airports (1 base & 3 WDS extensions, one extension is dedicated to the ISY). All the Airports is use are less than 6 months old (all newer systems). The older Airports did handle DHCP badly (hence the reason we upgraded all of them).

Hi Michel, It was a solid Memory light and and solid Error light. The thing that was unusual was that when the system stopped working, it also stopped the dedicated Airport Express that it was connected to (that also had to be restarted to bring back online). I've had the Airport for a few months with no problems, so I don't think it is the cause. I also noticed that after the first upgrade the system was slow to respond or failed to respond when I attempted to connect to it. On the upside, I reloaded 2.6.4 last night and restored from a backup and the system ran all night without problems (Yea!). It also is responding immediately when I connect (appears to be acting normal again). I'm starting to wonder if maybe the upgrade failed or did not complete correctly, since everything seems to be stable again. I only have minimal programs enabled for the moment and will start bringing them back this evening. Hopefully this is resolved. if the system starts misbehaving again I will set to a Static address as suggested, but for the moment I think I will leave it alone. At least until this evening when I continue torturing it as I always do. I still am extremely happy with the 99i Pro and still remain amazed at the ease of use, I just consider this a bump in the road. Thanks for the quick response, and I will let you know if the problem continues. Thanks, Eddie

Starting yesterday, my 99i has developed the nasty habit of crashing. It had worked perfect until I did the upgrade to 2.6.4. The system just stops with a solid error light. When it crashes it appears to be several hours after we have left the house or gone to bed. The logs don't really show anything unusual and I cannot figure out any common problem. Should I down grade the software? Can somebody give me a direction to start troubleshooting this thing. Do the logs contain any hints or something that I am missing? Thanks, Eddie

Just got my new 99i Pro yesterday and took today off from work to get the house on the new system. I have tried several software solutions before (HomeLinc & Indigo) and while they did what I "kinda" wanted there was always the wall that you hit when you wanted to do something above the norm. I have a rather complicated house setup (all Insteon) with about 120 devices. The builder built the house for himself and just put lots of three way, four way switches in the house (to bad he didn't know about Insteon). I really had planned to blog my trials and tribulations of linking this house back together and figured this would cover several weeks (and lots of problems). Frankly this system freaks me out. The 99i Pro setup with my wireless network took about 10 minutes, relinking all the complicated two/three/four way switches took about an hour. Setting all the special conditions and triggers took me most of the day, since I kept changing my mind since now I have so many options available. I did run into one problem, when I tried to register with this forum. For some strange reason my registration keep failing. I put in feedback to asking for help. They actually called me within 3 minutes of putting in web feedback and fixed the problem immediately. For a first experience with a new system, this has been fantastic. I sure there may be problems in the future, but feel this company actually cares and will fix problems.