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I mean maybe the breaker, could be a loose neutral or you could have a grounded neutral (I found one of those when rewiring all my switches). My situation was the whole house, every can light, under counter light, sconce would flicker occasionally (never constantly) and only when the battery is doing this stupid charge process that turns inverter on and off every minute or so trying to top up the battery. If I set backup to 99% is does it less because evidentially 100% is 99.9 +.1 and you only need to lose .1 to make it kick back on the charger but 99% is like 99.5 and comes back on at 98.9. i also had red blinking less lights on my switches showing comm issues. I had like 75 dimmer switches. Now that they are almost all gone I have no comm issues with these remaining KPLs which now control no loads directly or the remaining switchoinc, outletlinc or wireless devices.

If you go to inovelli.com there is only one version of white(matter) dimmer switch. If you have eisy I would try the red version that is zwave if you want to put in to your automation.

Sorry, I am not using these with ISY. They do have zwave versions of these switches I have not tried as. I get no flickering with these switches.

I haven’t seen anything on zwave. It is definitely only dimmers and KPL dimmers. On/off no problem. I can also see the leds in the kpl lighly flicker. My belief is the triac based dimmers are sensitive to some noise and are susceptible to phase changes. The pw3 must be generating noise in to the ac current but my ups and my monitoring don’t show voltage drops so maybe it’s here is some phase inversion when charging? If I set battery back to make it not charge it stops flickering. So the inverter kicking on and off must be causing the issues. I’ve left Insteon in 1 room so if Tesla ever comes out we can look at the problem.

Not for me. I took apart every light switch box in my house and changed to inovelli matter switches. As I went I tested every circuit and did find a neutral load wire that must be grounded somewhere. I removed it and checked everything and still get flickering. the new switches do not blink. I have left my KPLs in the loop for now to give all my leak sensors a dual channel path and to do some scene controlling but mine are hooked to a load. I am going to leave 1 room Insteon only for when Tesla come out. I tried the little devices you wore between neutral and load to reduce flicker but I’m wondering if I should have tried working in front of the switch. I’m still playing with options to remove flickering. My communication and errors have calmed down once I moved the ppm to the furthest location electrically from the powerwall3.

I didn’t go zwave, I’m going to hop over to matter and thread and go all in home assistant on lighting control and deal with all the ugly new tech issues in favor of future development potential . I’ve been happy with Insteon and isy for 20 years but running dual plugins to get apple home devices … has been a lot of work so moving programs to HA. Already have stuff I like better with what I have had with Insteon, but finding ways around them until matter binding is implemented.

Where is this setting? I don’t think I see that setting in the Tesla 1 app.

I started ripping out my 40 or so Insteon dimmers and putting in inovelli matter dimmers. no flicker. It isn’t Insteon’s fault as I’ve had some of these since 2004 with no problems but writing on wall with Insteon so make the change now is my decision.

Tesla says they can come look at it at the earliest date of March 31. What a joke. Told them they are on notice for damage and so far I have a failed soft start AC unit, a few automation devices. I know for sure it only happens when batteries are in this charging / not-charging loop trying to get to reserve. Ive had to set batteries below 100% as they never seem to get to 100%. when neither battery is in this charge / non-charge loop there is no flickering.

I would appreciate any help or advice you have. I’m convinced it is made worse by having backup at 100%. When backup at 100% the charging / not charging graph looks like left side of the picture attached. At 98% it doesn’t do the same thing and looks like left. Essentially I don’t ever see my batteries get to 100% and the constant switching on and off charger creates some of flickering and noise.

I've also seen that it is worse when lightly loaded. At moment mine are in background mode only so always lightly used. The flickers seem to happen when it shows it is lightly discharging and then recharging. I don't know why it needs to do this 2 times a minute, but whatever. Anyway, when it does a calibration and goes totally battery so all load on the batteries the flickering completely stops. It's really annoying, I have like 15-keypadlincs and 35-2477D dimmers. All of them with loads attached flicker occasionally. I've divided my problem in 2 parts. 1) Communication reliability - this doesn't seem too bad but I'm convinced my micro on-off problem is related to the batteries as only the v.43 versions have the problem and all of them have the problem. The .48 versions do not. My PLM is being a little flaky so going to try a brand new one that some people say has better / stronger signal and see what happens. 2) Light flicker. I know these are triac dimmers. The LED bulbs in the Switchlink ON/OFF don't flicker and neither do the insteon bulbs or the lamplinc, so assuming maybe it is the forward phase dimming of the triac. I found a known forward phase dimming bulb I'm going to test and see if it makes any difference. If the flickering can go away, I can maybe solve the comm issues.

I have exactly all of these issues you have. I can confirm that turning off the batteries eliminated the problems. I bought those little blue/yellow dimmer fixers Insteon sells and that didn’t help. I swapped bulbs and that didn’t help. i’ve seen haywire red flashing on the devices a few times. i removed my Transient voltage surge suppressor as a test and that didn’t fix it. while I knew it was doing some flickering I removed the dimmer switch and wired the light direct (no switch) and problem stops. I’ve seen the little leds in the dimmer switch twinkle. Putting on a large load like a hair dryer doesn’t make it do anything. i downloaded the Tesla One app and paired to my PW3s to see realtime voltage and hz. It doesn’t fluctuate much and doesn’t look strange. i think it is happening as it switches to charging the battery. It does this constantly, it doesn’t charge and then stop, it switches between charging and not charging constantly. it’s kinda pissing me off. I assume it must be noise which I can’t reliably diagnose. i have 2 Powerwall gateways connected to a single meter. If in turn off the pw3 on one gateway it still flickers in both houses so the noise or whatever is transmitting upstream of the gateway as well. I’m wondering if it’s the gateway/ I know AC doesn’t care what is line 1 or 2 but can power going out line 1 and coming back as line 2 cause issues. I don’t understand how the gateway is switching internally or if all power goes to the backup side circuits on pw3 and feeds loads from there. anyway, you aren’t alone. Tesla hasn’t been much help and they installed my system.

You can also add it manually. Just add the device by typing https://IP_ADDRESS:8080/desc in the window that pops up. It adds it locally. If it ever finds it on the network you will see it as eisy.local. I have 1 Mac I can't get to find it automatically. I know it is the network setting to allow local access. There is process to reset all of that I just haven't messed with yet.

I keep seeing red blinks on some switches when locally pressed. I've had the issue with device being randomly turned off and now I've had 2 times where all the devices came on (like if you do on with the my lighting scene). Then last night no device presses would work on switches but I could control them from ISY. Looked and all the links in the PLM were gone. I don't think I accidentally held in the button when plugging in. Restored it fine and then all lights came on at 4am. Sound like a failing PLM?

thanks I have done that. It isn't at a specific time. I'm having home assistant monitor the wifi bulb and send me a notice when it goes offline so I can find a time, but there isn't any specific time. It is strange it is only the v.43 modules. They are a pain to replace. I can write an automation in Home Assistant to turn back on the micro modules when light goes unavailable, but that is a hack. I'm wondering if some electrical noise is causing them to turn off at the switch. Like I say, when I see the light bulb become unavailable, if I look at ISY it still says it is On until I query and then it shows off so I don't think Eisy is getting a message to log.