Bill Morrow

OK, I reconverted all of the wav files with a different converter and all is well again. Weird the other format won't play on OpenElec.

OK, there is something wrong with the new sound files. I copied one of the old sound files to the new file name and tested the new Network Resource and it works. But the files play standalone just fine. I guess it could be a volume issue? I have tried both .wav and .mp3.

HELP!!!! ? I'm adding a bunch of new sounds, but the first one I added will not play. The Network Resource tests OK, but nothing is played. I just copied an existing NR and updated the file name. I tried both Wav and Mp3. Yes, the file is in the folder. Any bright ideas? GET /jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22id%22:%221%22,%22method%22:%22Player.Open%22,%22params%22:{%22item%22:{%22file%22:%22storage/music/GarageDoorOpen.mp3%22}}} HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.1.135:80 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 Connection: Close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 0

I have an old ThinkPad, R32 with a PATA interface. It got so slow you would wait two minutes for a right mouse click to respond. A memory upgrade and some tweaking made this bearable. But it will not boot off my mSata card with PATA adapter.. I thought it might be the adapter or the image, so I bought PATA to USB adapter and I can see the disk and the image looks fine. But the laptop does not see the drive. If I try to boot off the drive plugged into the USB it will Blue-screen, so at least it sees the drive. I bought another adapter (they are dirt cheap) and I noticed it has a jumper on the master/slave pins, but the original drive does not have this, so I assume it's hard code internally as Master. I know someone else who used my first interface, so it could be some kind of incompatibility between the interface and my choice of Sata cards, although it works perfectly with the USB interface. Upgrading the new laptop was a PoC. I replaced an average SSD with one of the new Crucial MX500s and it boots instantly now. The ThinkPad was not my working laptop BTW; I just want an XP machine to play with.

Thanks Brian, my bad for being lazy. I've got a few projects on the go from upgrading an old laptop to SSD (Grrr), upgrading the SSD in a new laptop (Yay), fixing my RPi sharing issues (damn Windows 10), rewiring the home theatre, debugging the fish's computer issues and DIRT. Sorry for the Blog. I bought another Extender for the I/O Linc and I'm going to install a filter before the garage door opener.

No, how does that work? Some combination of button presses I gather.

Thanks, There's a range extender about 30' from the I/O Linc. I could move it closer, but then it might get blocked by the fire door. Maybe I need another extender on the other side of the room, as this is closer to the I/O Linc.

I was afraid you were going to say that! ? I think I have about five range extenders and the garage is on the main panel and not the sub panel. Although the GD Opener comes with it's own surge suppressor, so I suppose that could be sucking up the signal. Maybe I'll try plugging a range extender next to the I/O Linc if your suggestion works. I've also got a box of filters somewhere; I might try putting one of these before the surge suppressor.

OK, the set button does open and close the door. Yay! ? The sense light goes on and off with the door going up and down. But it STILL won't link. Why is linking this device crashing the Admin console? ?

Nope, the relay is not the issue. I double checked and it seems to be using the correct connections. Although pressing the set button does not open the door. Disconnecting the relay makes no difference to the linking process either. ☹️ The sense light is also on whatever that means.

I'm trying to install my Insteon garage door sensor, but it won't link with my ISY. The ISY console just gets stuck on 'System Busy'. Is this a wiring issue with the sensors or the relay? It's been a while since I wired up the Insteon TBH, as I had to do some electrical wiring in the garage to get this thing 'operational' I have the relay wired up to the connections on the Liftmaster per the manual.and I have one garage door wired up to the open/close sensors. I wonder if the Liftmaster is putting out juice that's bothering the Insteon? I'll try without the relay, but I don't think that's the issue. Thanks

I sent this to support, just because the 2 second wait was bugging me. Just in case no one else did.

I started having this issue recently too, after I fixed my hardware issues and got Julie speaking again. At first I thought it might be a programming issue, as it worked OK before. Once I added the Wait statement before my Network Resource line things are back to normal, as Teken indicated above. Thanks Teken, you silenced two nagging females with one blow.

It seems you can splice backups together and restore the Franken-Backup. At least it loaded and everything seems to be there. More testing required obviously. I managed to recover some devices, network resources, climate configuration, a few programs and some variables. The bad news is that when I loaded my ISY console this morning (BEFORE ANY OF the ABOVE) it was having trouble communicating with multiple devices again. Could be the modem, but I suspect something else. Time to backup Frankie again, while he still works

Thanks, I was poking around the files a bit and they seem pretty straight forward. I'm going to compare the two zip files and see what's new in the latest backup. I'm hoping I can glue the two together and see what kind of beast I can create. Assuming there is no checksum in the file, I would not be surprised if there was. Otherwise I'll just recreate the missing stuff.

I assume not. I have not been in the Admin Console for a while, so when I loaded it up I had a bunch of devices with the exclamation mark. No amount of device updates/restores would fix these. So I restored the ISY, which fixed them all, but one troublesome wireless device. Anyway the last backup is missing some Network Resources, so I assume I have to add these the hard way? At least I can read them in the backup.

Thanks, looks like SD card is toast, PI is toast (mmm Raspberry Toast ), and possibly the HFB. It might be an issue with the cord to the PSU or the extension cord although the Unraid box on the same cord does not seem to have any issues. The new HFB arrived, so I'm putting Humpty back together.

OK, so I attached the new Pi to the HFB and it still won't boot. I get a solid red LED and a solid green LED, but no screen activity. I guess I'll try a different PSU, but it does not look good for the HFB.

I tested the dead Pi and the good Pi with the same PSU. Yep the HFB was removed for the last test. I have many other PSUs, both Pi and HFB in my junk collection.

I get a solid red LED and NO screen activity.

Looks like the SD card is corrupt and the Pi is dead. I put the card in another Pi and it complained about the SD card being corrupt on boot. So I reformatted the drive (more than once) and restored the contents from a backup. The new Pi will now boot, but complains, as the HiFi Berry is missing I assume. The old Pi will not boot with the resurrected memory card. I'll attach the new Pi to the HiFi Berry and see what happens.

Julie died, OK she's been dead quite some time. There's just been too many real world things going on to go over her corpse. The LED on the Pi comes on and stays red. My first thought was the SD card of course, but it seems OK when I check it on the PC. My next thought was the HiFi Berry, but removing it gives the same result with the standalone Raspberry Pi. I guess I'll install a fresh SD card and OS in the Pi and see what happens; otherwise I guess the Pi is dead. Anyone else experience the HiFi Berry being a Pi killer? Any other bright ideas on where to look? Thanks

Yeah, I found the matching handle on Amazon after I posted. Wow the handle is a scary price compared to the lock. The handset looks very much like our existing Schlage, so I might just buy the lock for the front door. I'll have to see how close it looks. There is almost no price difference buying them together, at least where I am. I just purchased ZWave kit for my ISY.

The Schlage BE469 looks interesting, but how well do they hold up to the weather? Also what about a matching knob?

Thanks for the details. Yeah she carries a phone, but it's never turned on.