Bill Morrow

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.

I live with an older parent who does not always remember to lock the door. The neighbourhood is safe enough, but neighbours have had people walk in off the street and walk out with anything laying around, while they were in the backyard. So I'm looking for an insteon lock that would alert me when the lock is open. I don't want the keypad or even the RF remote, although I would still like some way to lock the door remotely. What's a good quality, reliable and secure option?

I was playing with Teken's issue, as I want to do similar things. I came up with the following snippet to make Julie repeat herself N times: Temperature Sound - [iD 0015][Parent 0014] If $C_Sound > 0 And From Sunrise + 3 hours To 11:59:00PM (same day) Then Resource 'Snow Warning' Wait 2 minutes $C_Sound -= 1 Else $C_Sound = 0 C_Sound is a State variable that I set in another program. Set it to 5 and your program, a network resource in my case will repeat 5 times. Since I'm doing voice announcement, I also check to make sure it's a reasonable hour. I'm using two minutes for the interval here, but I'll be using 30 minutes in real life. I also set my state to 0 if it gets outside my reasonable time zone.

Yeah, I'm just getting into this, so I'm just assuming it would run as long as the conditions were true. I did see the comment about the polling interval above. I saw a script that polls several weather stations in case they are out of date, I assume you could modify it to find a weather station that has the condition you want. You document was very helpful, it saved me a lot of time, even with my SD corruption. Apparently you should not test the new announcement system at 3 AM however. LOL.

Hi, the code is just a sample I 'borrowed'. I would actually put my Network Resource here. Polling interval is 300 I believe, I just installed it. I could make it higher, but there might be other things I want to poll more often, say a tornado warning. I saw an interesting script that someone wrote to poll multiple weather stations and set variables in their ISY. It was being run on an RPi as I recall. Thanks for the advice.

OK, now that I have Julie making visitor announcements thanks to Thantar and Teken, I want to work on my climate announcements. So I saw this code as an example of a snow announcement, but I'm also interested in a freezing rain warning: If Module 'Climate' Dew Point < 32 °F And Module 'Climate' Humidity > 80 % And Module 'Climate' Temperature <= 40 °F Then Run Program 'Snow Probable' (Then Path) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') The one thing I'm not sure of is how to stop the announcement every 5 seconds. I assume I need to set a variable and don't run the program once variable is set. The variable would need to be reset after an hour or so. You also don't want announcements at 3 in the morning either, but that's a pretty simple fix.

I could waste some serious time just playing with the voices. I'm kinda fond of Bridget.

Yeah, I crossed the USB bridge yesterday. Fortunately I had one for for one of my UPSs. Did not solve my problem, but Brian pointed me in the right direction.

OK, the lights are at half power now. I was considering using the ISY PLM, but after the restore issues I just went though, I think I'll repair my dead PLM. I will need it one day soon anyway. Thanks

Very Kewl. My file-server runs 24/7 so it could host eSpeak. I also have a few Pi laying around.

Yeah I get that. So do I need two PLMs? One for the utility module and the one for the EZIO8SA? The documentation does not read this way.