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I think the answer may be the speed difference is irrelevant to any home automation user if you use any remote devices via a communications protocol. If you want to listen to music while watching a 4K video and still have your HA operate at the same speed, there my be somewhat of a difference. IOW: in polISY and eISY the CPU will be 95% of it's speed wasted, waiting for the comm line to talk to, or hear back from, it's peripheral devices.

Any time lag perceived by a human is from the comm protocol being used. Insteon is a very slow protocol once you add in all the transmission security, echoing and retries of any bad device or noise picked up and translated to valid signals fr devices that don't exist. Of course it is fast enough in a clean system. I always needed to put in Wait 1-2 seconds between every group of 3 Insteon devices or buffers would overflow and lose commands and statuses. WiFi and some other protocols are much faster. ISY was only about 200 MHz CPU while polISY is aprox 1,000 MHz, and multi-processor core. It is not slow to a human.

This is how I did it with two programs. Any program wanting to start the time just sets the state variable, $sHouse.countdowner, to X minutes and the rest happens automatically. After the timeout the house is marked as unoccupied. Note usage of constant integers. Occupied.countdowner - [ID 0167][Parent 000B][Run At Startup] If $sHouse.occupied.timer > 0 And From 9:30:00AM To 11:00:00PM (same day) // [Run at Startup] enabled Then Wait 1 minute $sHouse.occupied.timer -= 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Self retriggering timer. -If startup occurs outside wake timeframe, will self start at beginning of timeframe. -If timeframe commences while .timer is 0, first new occupied.timer value will start again. Occupied.flagger - [ID 0168][Parent 000B] If $sHouse.occupied.timer > 0 Then $sHouse.occupied = $cTRUE Else $sHouse.occupied = $cFALSE Power up assumes home unoccupied! Shouldn't be long to correct that. Program cannot be combined into "Occupied countdowner" program as it's timeframe end would zero occupied.timer

Yes, Outback is one of the earlier era more top quality inverter systems for solar PV systems. I spent some time with Modbus, and more in DNP 3.0 before we went to Ethernet for electrical grid substation automation, just as I retired. When I started in 1974 I serviced tube and relay SCADA systems as well as some DTL systems. Left as Ethernet came into being. Would have loved to stay for that because it was right up my alley...but **sigh** time to go.

If you are dealing with Outback inverters they have another protocol laye on top of modbus, whereas the registers are dynamically assigned inside the modbus code. Fixed register numbers will not work with that higher level protocol.

I have a different brand and they have to be calibrated to the top and the bottom before usage. Has that been done before remote controlling them?

Very strange. I have used about 40 Insteon devices, and other than maybe 2 devices that came bad, I have only 2 devices that have gone bad since 2016. Some people have bad electrical noise that can get amplified via Insteon devices, or RF noise to interfere with wireless device comms. I would be looking to resolve those issues. Insteon is much more reliable than WiFi, most of the time in the homes I have owned. However, Chamberlain garage door openers gave me years of trouble until I found them and filtered their power plugs. I thought it was my 120/240v Outback inverters and just allowed it for years until my second Chamberlain GDO arrived and pushed my Insteon system over the edge.

I find it just stops working for no reason sometimes, Later it may start again but saving the URLs in a file helps expedite recovery times. My idea is that it sends out some "are you out there" signal and ISY, polISY, eISY and/or the new eISY responds with "Mommy. I am here" response. Sometimes they just don't hear each other and the child is MIA.

Look at the buttons on the bottom of the IoX Finder box.

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. I use IoX Finder on two different laptops and after both finding my poISY for dozens of times successfully, either one may suddenly not find it at times. Then I have to reload my saved profile file and away it goes again. Either laptop can do this at random and I have never established a cause or reason for the random failure about once per two months.

You can increase the memory size but every update of Java will erase it again In today's world, we are pestered with updates on something every day or two. HTML5/CSS3/javaScript is coming soon, I hope.

SMS text messaging is not available to many people traveling. People do not want to pay exorbitant rates to get phone service for a week or two Usually most resorts (in Mexico) provide WiFi data, so emails are one of the only methods to receive notifications.

MS devices use many channels and each one establishes a link with your PLM. It is very common during disturbances and EPROM rewriting to MSes to lose or scramble one link. All the other functions may work, but one doesn't. Put the MS into linking mode and use IoX to Restore the device, by right clicking on the device in the device tree. If that doesn't do it, then try factory resetting the MS and then Restore it again. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk

I prefer not to add another dummy program just to run another a startup and try to use the function without another program. I have a few with Else sections that just jump back to the Then sections. Run at Startup would be much better as another program line that users could be aware that it exists without extra documentation, inside the program. A coding line for Run at Startup would also disclose the logic Run at Startup uses, and be controllable by the user usage of AND or OR logic. No extra confusing program or hidden checkbox would be necessary. Programs should be self-contained, not logic spread all over the webpages and jumps into the middle of other programs in spaghetti bowl style programming.

An old woodworking project, of the many, I created to fit my synthesizer years ago. Now I do not have enough room for it in my apartment so it sits in my son's music room 20 km away **sigh**. Sent from my SM-S711W using Tapatalk