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Thanks. That is helpful. Apparently UDI staff don't bother to reply to posts if there's any constructive criticism included.

Seems I missed the momentous event back in October where 5.x finally went mainstream. Finally! Although, it was a kick in the balls to read here that Java was kept as the environment for the Admin Console. Clearly that was a bad idea for more reasons than anybody would have time to discuss on any forum. Besides the fact that Java has been the most problematic run-time environment ever, requiring a desktop fat client rather than webified interface is sooo 1990's. I feel better now....I'll move on. But I'm ready to make the jump. I have about 130 Insteon devices, over 300 programs, a few Z-wave devices, the Elk module, and the Networking Module to trigger events in external systems. I know I need to upgrade my 300 series Z-wave board and have started that process. What's the best way to validate what issues and risks I face upgrading from 4.8.0 to 5.3.0? Is there a clean, full-proof roll-back process that isn't fraught with risk if I decide to go back to 4.8.0? Just having a backup doesn't make roll-backs easy. On this thread it states, "Upgrading to this version may require a lot of manual intervention including verifying scenes, programs and program settings are correct. In some cases it will be easier to rebuild your network." If this in reference to Z-wave only? If so, I'm not worried about that since I have so few Z-wave devices and programs that use them. Thanks!

I have a large Insteon network with ISY v4.6.2 in use for over three years operating mostly without issue. That is until I replaced a failed PLM a few months back. It's the newer PLM v9E (as reported by ISY). First I had some issues with the ISY getting bogged down and locking up. Without reason or any changes, that stopped after a week or so. I never found a cause. But now I'm dealing with an issue where certain devices just turn themselves on. It's just a few devices that are regularly affected but not at the same time.. And I only deal with On events, I have not noticed any Off events. And all the devices are different. A Switchlinc, a FanLinc, Micro On/Off, KPL..... For one specific device, it for sure happpens regularly at 3am when the Query All runs. But that's just for that one device. The others don't necessarily happen then. I have restored the affected devices but that didn't help. Any ideas or suggestions?

I'll try. But notice it says "Sold and Ships from Smarthome". Smarthome site says they don't have it.

Their site says not available for shipping to home. Only ship to store, which isn't an option for me. I'm guessing that means they don't have actually have stock and would order from their supplier when I order. I'm also guessing that they can't actually order any. Regardless, not an option for me since there ins't a Menard's here.

Site says no longer in their catalog.

So it looks like Insteon stopped making the Synchrolinc 2423A5. I'm using three of them now and have need for another. Anybody have suggestions for a good replacement option for use where the device plugs in? These devices I need to watch aren't on a dedicated circuit. I do have Zwave on my ISY but have very few devices in my network. Where I need this new sensor, I don't think will reliably access the network.

I'm not currently believing this to be caused by a programming issue. Although, I certainly can't rule it out. I expanded all my folders and don't see any programs firing. Although I have several hundred spread across two-levels of folders so it's not easy to view them. Arg!

This problem continues to plague me. I disabled all programs using a RESTful call to set a variable I have on the root folder. Forgot I had that and although delayed did finally work. After another reboot I was able to open the Admin console and waited for the initial query to complete. Then I enabled all my programs. Nothing happened. Everything seemed to operate fine. After a several hours it was starting to slow down again. Some programs didn't run. Some ran but delayed. The Event Viewer doesn't show any chatty devices or constant activity. Any other suggestions on where to look or how to isolate the root cause?

BTW. In the past week I only created one program to turn on a light when a switch is switched on. Hard to do wrong. And no problems for 24 hours after that. No other programs/network resources were changed. The only other thing I did was increase the font size to max size for the Admin console for a new laptop I got which has a very high resolution.

How do I do that if I can't load the admin console?

Arg! Catastrophe!! My ISY is unresponsive. I notice some programs weren't executing. Went to my Admin console that's always open on my home server and it was generating socket errors and was unresponsive. Looked at the logging via USB port (which I always have running) and I saw a repeating message about the queue was full. UDQ: Queue(s) Full, message ignored So I rebooted it. It was REALLY slow to reboot fully. I couldn't log in for about 5 min. Even now the console command line is kind of slow. And the Admin console crashed when trying to load after logging in. Thoughts or suggestions on where to start troubleshooting this one? ISY v4.6.2

I restored the PLM. Less painful than I was thinking since it was the same PLM therefore all my Insteon devices didn't actually need to be updated. Just the PLM itself. Seems things are running fine now. My links table is at 766 so should have just a bit more headroom to grow.

Sure. But the PLM links table is empty. How would it receive any event? Just an interesting note.... Don't want you to troubleshoot that for me. It's the ONLY device out of 130 that is able to communicate.

Yeah... Should've been obvious to check the PLM links table. Thanks. Luckily I've been relatively trouble free for the past 18 mos but means my troubleshooting skills with ISY/Insteon/PLM have eroded. Nothing shows up in the PLM links table with a Start request. Ug. Strange my wireless tstat works though, eh?

Greetings. ISY v.4.6.2 w/ updated PLM v9E. Largish existing network in use for 3+ years w/ Elk integration and Z-wave. My ISY can send Insteon commands and control any Insteon device. However, it doesn't receive any Insteon events generated. So for example, I can switch on a light and the ISY won't know it. Yet if I query the device, the status will update to On. So clearly the ISY and PLM are able to receive the Insteon protocol from the network. Devices linked in scenes together operate as expected. Programs can control devices as expected. I already power cycled the ISY and PLM. No change. Integration with Elk via Ethernet is unaffected. Zwave devices are unaffected. Events from my Insteon tstat ARE successfully received if I change the set points, humidity changes, etc. Events from my mini-remote are NOT received. Level 3 Event logging shows no activity for these missing events. Error Log shows no errors. I'm tempted to restore the PLM, but last time I did that it wasn't a simple quick, easy click. It took several tries with other issues that I can't recall the details of now. Suggestions on best next steps?

Perfect. That's exactly what I wanted to understand.

Tried to do some research myself on Kumoapp but their site is down.

To clarify, the local tag manager on the internal network can put variables into ISY directly without cloud/internet access? Or it must have cloud/internet access to work but locally stuffs the variables into ISY? Where does Kumoapp run?

Do I have to expose my ISY to the internet for the KumoApp to talk to it directly? Or can I have something inside my network make the REST call to stuff the ISY variables?

Ha... Yeah. Not space efficient but one is in my HVAC closet, the flo's in the garage, and the other is in the utility room cabinet. Compatible? I have not doubt. Effective? Depends. Is it low-pass, high-pass, or band? Signal suck vs noise and the type of noise are totally different problems to solve. Band-pass fixes most. High vs low depends on the situation.

How do you know it's band-pass? I googled and found several docs on it but none of them mentioned the low- and high- cutoff points. Or anything about frequencies.

Ha. Thanks for the tip. I tested the existing fuse with a multi-meter and also replaced it just to make sure.

Greetings. I have a few 15A (AF120) and 20A(AF300) filters from ACT now. Originally ,I purchased them from the smarthome.com site. I had one die and needed an additional one but found they were no longer selling them. Also, I could not find them on any other site so I guess ACT quit making them. Any recommendations for 15A or 20A Insteon filters? I see the X10 XPF 20A filter on the smarthome.com site but I couldn't find any info on frequencies it passes/filters. Is it a low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass? Have others had success with it? I need one for some noisy fluorescent lights and a "smart" dryer. Thanks!

Greetings. Is it possible to use CAO tags and get the data into an ISY variable without using ISY Portal? I prefer to not use cloud-connected services for HA/Security.