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This is very common practice in some areas with large multi-unit buildings. It saves on some conductor size. However we used to get complaints from electricians about bulbs popping due to the 125vac on them and heats running at 216vac. Utilities tend to attempt a compromise by running voltage at 125/216vac instead of 120/208vac. The voltage levels are within specs and the 216v is not too bad for 220vac appliances. Cheaper incandescent bulbs never liked it though and after being called, many electrician troubleshooters didn't understand why the 120v was so high. However, since Insteon and X10 signals use the zero crossing of the phase voltage, I am not sure how well passing one phase's signals over to another phase, that is 120 degrees out of phase, could possibly work well.

Did you try reloading IoX? I haven't seen it happen in the last few years but occasionally the admin console would do a screwed up load and programs would be missing or elements missing.

If ..... XXX is switched Fast On Then .... do the deed Else -- This is also sent by the non-Dimmer Insteon Wall switches

IIRC, In the end of porting from my ISY994 to my polISY, after attempting to copy it over, I just printed out all my programs and re-entered them manually into my new polISY box. However, I had just moved from a larger home to a smaller apartment and my HA needs were much smaller and quite different. I started from scratch using variables for almost all lighting scenes as the operations are much more debuggable, and simpler, to write more complex deviations to the standard trigger on and time off processes.

I use mostly WiFi bulbs now, a few Insteon plugins with lamps, Insteon door sensors, and a few WiFi Christmas light strings. Matter devices are coming into being everywhere and ISY is working on supporting them big time. My next jump will likely be a WiFi Matter system. I did a short stint with zWave with a half dozen devices but it felt like X10 back in the 80s and now sits in my junk box. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

Be sure to save the IoX finder's url results. It makes it much easier to load them back in later when things get finicky again. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

Already wired Ethernet extensions are available and may avoid the switched pair confusion that can happen. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

Is your ISY IP address dictated in the DHCP IP address reservation table in your router? This sounds a lot like IP address overlap when people attempt to lock down IP addresses other than their router....sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I just remember getting decimal variables and some network capabilities with v5. Zwave came along much later IIRC about v5.3.x when ISY development stalled.

IIRC this was an old feature that has since been gone for years and many versions. It is not related to this subject matter anyway.

I discovered the ISY mobile app added disables to the Alexa / portal account connection and it defaulted to disabled. Look in the mobile app and see if it needs to be re-enabled. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

Therecl are small devices that wire into octagon boxes that provide enough current to accomplish this. AFAICT they are most capacitors inside do there is no heat generated due to their leading power factor not having any Watts. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

There is a limit to the version you can use on the ISY but I would advance to v5 for sure. There are way too many features that I couldn't live without now. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

You're spoiled by high level language tools. ISY language takes much more creativity to debug complex programming constructs but it can and has been done. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

It seems the non-nuetral devices have all disappeared since low current light bulbs have appeared on the market. The low draw and distorted waveforms have made it next to impossible to create enough energy to support a decent rf transmission for most protocols without a neutral wire. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk