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My eisy and 2413s cable adapter arrived moments ago. Will set it up and restore my dead '994s backup to it after I finish "my day job". Out of curiosity, in the eisy packaging was a tiny ziploc baggie with a swatch of pink... film? It reminds me of a piece of heat sink tape that might go on an M.2 SSD. Is that what it is? If so, thanks UD for providing one in case I do add some storage that way.

Now that I've made up my mind to buy eisy, it's out of stock. Looks like the last stock refresh was April, any signs of when the next batch will be in?

Yep, swapped in known good cable, known good port; in the words of Bones, "He's dead, Jim!"

Sigh, sd-card checks out fine, and the power brick reads 5.2 volts on a multimeter. Tried a different one anyway, with the same results. Acts like no lan cable present. So, looks pretty much like the ethernet port got fried. Probably going to press "buy" on an EISY, and try to replace the six dead Insteon wall switches, after some reading... Appreciate the advice, many thanks!

That's my thought right now, too. I had two other devices that lost their LAN ports in that hit. They otherwise worked, but the ports were dead. Still gonna check the 994's power supply and sd-card, but I do think its ethernet port is fried. Maybe not; hope for the best, plan for the worse.

I will try another power supply, and pull the SDcard and see if it's bad. Probably this evening after the day job. As for upgrading, I'm fine with having to go to EISY just to modernize, and to get more programmability. I had been thinking a couple years ago about going to Polisy, but kept putting it off since everything was working fine. Now, if our 994 is really dead, I'm going to go with the latest and greatest just for additional programming capability.

Alrighty, EISY is my only choice. That gives me something to look at and see what it can do. As for the '994, I am willing to poke at it a bit and see if it will do anything. I know the ethernet switch it was connected to was killed in the strike, as was the 2413s. Another nearby device had its ethernet port fried, but worked otherwise. Our 994 powers up, but the ethernet port never shows link or activity (like no cable connected). Replaced the ethernet cable to no avail. The lights on the 994 "look like normal on startup", but end up with power LED steady on, memory and error LED flashing at 1hz. I do have backups of the ISY settings. The replacement 2413s appears to be ok, except I can't get into the ISY to verify more than the PLMs LED comes on.

Lightning recently caused some damage in our house. Thought at first just the PLM was shot, along with several Insteon wall switches. Replaced the PLM, but it seems that our ISY994i was destroyed also. With the 994 at EOL, time to upgrade! But to what? Polysys or EISY? My criteria is: no dependence on "the cloud", no dependence on Windows or MAC (I use Linux), programmability (loved the ISY994 for that), flexibility (I could connect the ISY with non-Insteon devices through the network interface and ioLincs). Can I control other than Insteon devices with the upgrade? Is the EISY the latest iteration of the ISY family? Advice on my upgrade path, please? I'd like to get my home automation stuff back up soon; we've become rather used (dependent?) to it!