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Deirwin, I know it's been awhile but I hope you got your lights installed and working well. I've been recently thinking about rgb control as well for my next project, rahnee have gotten anywhere on that front? Radiant floor heat is tricky for sure. We decided to forego Insteon integration on this last house but I've been looking in to making this work by using the wireless thermostats with the remote sensor installed in the jibcrete or concrete to get an accurate temperature reading. Haven't done it yet though. I wish the regular thermostats had the remote sensor capability as well but unfortunately they do not. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I guess that 4 was important to pay attention to eh? Oops.

It sounds like issues that I was having with my PLM awhile back. After power cycling both units, (PLM first then the ISY) the ISY would go through each of my insteon devices and return the "could not communicate" error. The PLM was not acknowledging the commands so there was definitely something up with the PLM. A factory reset on the PLM had no effect either. So I called up smarthome and they sent me a new one. They figured it likely either needed to be re-cap'd or re-flashed. This exact thing has happened twice to me. It took about a little over a year for the PLM to fail. This last one is going on 11 months now so we'll see if it makes the cut. mangler: why wouldn't you just purchase the zwave upgrade kit? So much less expensive.

I have had luck with dimmable strip lighting with just a switchlinc dimmer as the load control. You have to find appropriate drivers/transformers for the LED strips though. I used one of these though I don't think I bought at that site. I liked them because they complied with code while sitting, hidden on top of the bar cabinets. I didn't have to bury it in a wall. It's a self contained metal box very easy to install. I can't recall what exactly the performance is in terms of dimming but I think it does a pretty good job. It's not installed in my home so I can't just compare the dimmed percentage on the switchlinc and what I feel the actual light output is. But it worked to the satisfaction of my customer so that was the important part. Thought that I had a picture but apparently not. Next time I'm over at that house I'll try and grab a photo.

Glad I could be of help.

It sounds to me like the motion sensor program's "then" statement is set to control the garage lights device and not set to control the scene. That would be my guess. I don't have any motion sensors to be able to see what conditions are available in the if statement so I can't know exactly what is going on but that's what I'd guess is your problem. But if you post the code then that would certainly help.

LeeG, So I realize that I kind of abandoned this thread, (unintentionally). I did figure out that that sequence was incorrect. I had contacted smarthome after this and they just sent me a new PLM. Worked fine. However I recently decided to get some more insteon devices and when adding a new switchlinc dimmer 2477D the same thing occured. Couldn't add via regular linking nor could I add via manually entering the address. Then rebooted the ISY and PLM in the correct order and then the PLM could not communicate with anything again. It's sunday so no RMA for me today but I'm really curious what I'm doing here that is jacking up the PLM.

Yeah copy that. The first time I restarted the ISY I also had the PLM unlplugged. I plugged the PLM in after the ISY had started up. I did move the ISY and PLM to an outlet that it right next to my breaker box. This time after everything booted up and I logged in to the admin console, ISY told me that it was running in Safe Mode and that it was most likely due to no communication with the PLM. So I'm getting the feeling more and more that for some reason my PLM went down when I tried the linking process with the lamplinc. Is there some sort of manual factory reset on the PLM that I should try? I couldn't find anything in any of the PLM's documentation. Nathan

I do not have any baby monitors or insteon thermostats. I was thinking of moving the PLM although I haven't had any problems since installing it 8 months ago. But still I was planning to move it to the outlet that is just below my breaker panel. This just requires adding a cat5 run into the hallway. I haven't had the time to do that since I posted though. I might have that time tonight but it is unlikely that I will be able to get to it until next week All work and no play. It still seems odd that the ISY thinks that the PLM is connected even when it is unplugged though doesn't it? I may need to purchase a few filterlincs to improve my network as it is getting large and I have no filterlincs on any of my battery backups or A/V equipment. Nathan

I just got a few lamplincs yesterday and I was going to link them with the ISY. I put the ISY into linking mode and then did the same with the first lamplinc. I registered the lamplinc and put it in the list. I clicked finish and it was doing it's normal thing. Part way through the process it returned a "Could not determine Insteon Engine" error. I thought that maybe I was having some comm issues at that location so I moved to a new location, closer to another insteon device and an AP. Same result. I kept moving around the house and on my 4th attempt, the ISY was not able to see the lamplinc at all. To be sure I went back to the original location where it could see it at least and it didn't this time around. So I then decided to install a new switchlinc that I hadn't quite gotten around to yet. Yet again no results. My ISY is on the 4.0.5 firmware. I decided that maybe a power cycle of the ISY/PLM might be a good option. This seemed to make my problem worse. While I hadn't tried to control some other insteon device during the whole linking business, after the power cycle admin console was, what I surmise was, reestablishing comms with my insteon devices. After each "system busy" type progress bar it would return an error stating that it could not establish communication with insteon device. So I click okay and that cycle continues until all of my devices are confirmed to not have communication. So I power cycled again. To no avail. I wanted to check the firmware version of the PLM so I went to check "PLM Status/info" and it returned the address and what looks like a revision number stated that it was connected. Funny thing though was that the PLM wasn't in fact connected. So bottom line trying to figure out where I go from here since it doesn't actually seem like I'm actually having a comm issue since everything else worked perfectly before I attempted the lamplinc situation. Thanks