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Every time I use UD Mobile I see more additions to it. It has become a powerhouse of features and if variable additions are not there, my guess is they soon will be. @junkycosmosSuggest pinging the author/code writer with your concern

Yes. The image writers is called Rufus and an image.img file is involved. UDI support supplied links (image was time limited for security) and you download the two. -After removing the SSD from the polisy, you insert the SSD into the adapter, and screw it down (micro screwdriver supplied with adapter) to hold the contacts tight. -Insert the USB combination into a USB slot, -run Rufus, which automatically finds the drive and tells you about partitions etc. -SELECT the polisy???.img file, and click START. -You will then see a lot of warnings about destroying old data and partitions, you will ignore. -Now you should see a sliding progress indicator, about 20 seconds -Now you should see the CLOSE box appear. -I used Windows eject USB feature -Reinstall the SSD drive. Don't forget the overlayed small PCB onto the dual header pins. -Close up polisy case -Power up polisy -Reset credentials and font size, and location time zone etc. -Reboot, and load in saved IoX image file. -in PG3 need to re-install every NS using the "want to reuse the same slot" menu option. Despite looking like it will recharge our wallet, there is a method to bypass. Then after a few moments when reported installed, every NS required a restart to comm with polisy, then install any keys or passwords. IoX data resumed updating for every NS. Ecobee found the old one, after deleting and installing new key provided by ecobee NS install. Watch for it in PG3x. Govee had to request a new "api_key" from the mobile app to see the set of lights it handles. Install in PG3 Govee config api_key = xxyxyxyxyxy Twinky did it's own thing. but no devices attached right now. -Alexa looked after itself completely. -SSH need to be setup, maybe but password in polisy needs to be changed from the default admin/admin to desired. -my NRbridge software had to be re-installed in Polisy, used Fileziila but directories had to be created first using SSH. The crontab was hard to figure out because I am not real good with freeBSD yet. -default freeBSD editor needs to be changed to nano, if desired. Research online. Can't remember the"export ?????" syntax. Need a permanent assignment yet.

Support has already started from Michel. I already have this mSATA to USB adapter from rebuilding my polisys from some incompatible original polisy image. https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-ELUTENG-Converter-Portable-External/dp/B07VP2WH73/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2ZEVFJRTHNDN7&keywords=msata%2Bto%2Busb%2Badapter&pldnSite=1&qid=1658831709&sprefix=msata%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-5&th=1 I don't know why this link jumps me back to the forum. I have reinserted it four times with the same results now.

Yeah no access to modify or fix anything. I do remember (now) Michel's ask to not do resets. I do have an SSD imager that Michel recommend in the past to recover from the stone age so I still have hope. Not sure where this is going to go but I think I better start working on my spare polisy now and get it up to speed.

Bricked polISY Another one bites the dust. Just upgraded my polISY v5.8.? to v5.9.1 via the mobile app. It was against my better judgement and I have avoided it up until last night because I have no matter devices connected yet. I had some trouble with a few WiFi bulbs and attempted to reboot my polisy via the mobile app. I discovered the update and thought the bugs would be worked out by now. It never came back up after waiting all night. I rebooted the router, net switch and power cycled the polisy a few times with no response. Swapped over to a spare power supply. Tried a new network cord and port on the switch. Tried various resets from 1 to 5, also held it for 15 seconds once but no luck. The green power LED is on and the Ethernet port shows flashing green and solid yellow leds on the port so it seems to be talking. However the router does not show any device connected to that IP address. Where do I go from here? Any ideas how to revive this bricked polisy?

We had an Interbet failure for several hour in Ontario a few years ago. Only one large provider was affected on their backbone. People were surprised when their phones stopped working, they had no TV, they had no Internet browsing and a few other services all dead. Basically there was no entertainment in any form. It was a big wakeup call. My side of the Internet backbone was only affected by data slowdown somewhat but it makes one think. Can I add my home automation to the list of dead items? How about Alexa information ,HA control, and weather info? There was a lot of talk about law suits and legal actions but I doubt they went anywhere because nobody guarantees service.

I think your head is in the clouds. Would I have to text you to turn on my lights then?

I'll split it with you! But who is going to be "the cloud" and who is going to be local? 🤪

Results are always assigned to the variable register they originate from. Try not to use STATE variables for complex calculations as they may trigger your dependent programs repeatedly with premature results. For multiple operation calculations, it may be best to use an Integer variable and then transfer the resultant into the STATE variable. Use of a lower precision variable, during calculations, will result in truncated decimal places for the final variable precision regardless of the final variable set precision.

It only takes a few lines of code to create a variable timer that self starts and self runs. This one has been tested for years. https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/45088-wait-variable-minutes/#findComment-394015

@Jimbo.Automates I don't know why this has reared it's ugly head now but my two ecobee remote sensors are reporting as F instead of C, as per settings and all other temperature readings. The values are correct but the nomenclature in the admin console show as 23F instead of 23C. IIRC, this has been scaled incorrectly for years but as just a scale typo I thought it would correct itself with an update sooner or later. However, it never has apparently. Now, trying to use a value in a calculation I find the value used for arithmetic is being converted to C, so that being shown as 23F calculates to -5C in the variable calculations. I have tried reinstalling NS into PG3 and restarting but no luck. How do I jerk this back to proper unit scales dictated by Admin Console settings?

Having a few spare FilterLincs can really help. My big problem was Chamberlain garage door openers. My first GDO gave me slight comm problems for about ten years. Once I got a second GDO with battery backup, my Insteon went to about 20% success. Unplugging both of them resolved the problem so I bought two FilterLincs and my system worked much better. The long delay was I though it was my whole home Outback Inverter system doing it and due to being minor, I just ignored it.

Most of my Insteon devices do that now. For the last few updates, I have had to right click on the device and select Write Updates or the 1011 stays there forever. I feel this is an old update logical bug that never got straightened out, especially on battery operated devices. This may also depend on what your battery writes options are set to but I have always just Write Updates for the last year or so.

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.