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I installed a new circuit just for my HA and the first box contains the phase bridge. Then there receptacles after it containing the PLM, ISY, and a dual band on/off module with a small emergency heater in the utility room all within a few conductor feet of my panel. My inverters are direct wired and cannot be filtered easily. I have some slight but very occasional comm problems on the circuit on the main floor right above the inverters and main panel. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Position on the bus in the panel shouldn't make any difference. Close to source means close to the PLM conductor wire to me. Keep it plugged close to the panel for best comms distribution throughout the house. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I remember reading that also. Confused the heck out of me. I thought UDI was allowed to sell their own devices. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

The light can appear very soft being so evenly dispersed Contrasting that with a single point overhead LED or halogen (like jewellers prefer) that make your pots and pans sparkle so much it's hard to see what you are doing. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

This is easy with v5. Just save all the levels into integer variables and when you are done write them back to each device. I have a section of variables dedicated to many of my devices and some take two variables for saved colour memory. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Canadians For Canadians the "free shipping" costs, plus return shipping costs for defective items end up costing you more than the item is worth, typically. When you pay the shipping one way, SH will not cover the return shipping costs either, despite SH responsibility for sending a defective item. Getting taxes refunded means dealing with Rev Can and the replacement item may get taxed again when shipped. Defective items are replaced free but it ends up being garbage, due to economics of it. aartech.ca is still the best deal for Canadian purchases. The Black Friday sales are not quite as impressive looking as SmartHome.com deals appear.

Got a spare PLM also? It may your turn!

I do not detect anything outside. I use 11 Insteon MSes inside.

@beninsteon If 'Neighbourhood' Occupied is True And From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) ISY doesn't poll Insteon devices. They report in when their status changes. These conditions will auto-trigger if the program and folder is enabled. Then will run at sunset and if Neighbourhood Occupied is True. Then will run if Neighbourhood Occupied just became true and from sunset to sunrise Else will run if Neighbourhood Occupied just became true during the day time. Else will run at sunset if Neighbourhood Occupied is False Else will run at sunrise, no matter what Neighbourhood Occupied is doing Else will run if Neighbourhood Occupied just became false no matter what time it is. Clear as mud?

Insteon devices have many settings. There is a unrelated on level and ramp rate for each link/scene, local control, and ISY program control. What you set in scenes does not affect the manual on from ISY or the manual on via the switch paddle.

What iR devices do you have that support "On level" or "Ramping speed"?

Scenes can be activated by programs inside ISY or without any ISY functions by including a device in the scene as an initiator/controller? (I never remember what ISY calls it) when you include it into the scene.

First, all Insteon devices should be factory reset before linking them to your ISY. They can come with all kinds of weird things inside them. ISY admin console has a button in the top menu that creates a scene. This will appear in the device list page as another device. To add devices to the scene just mouse drag and drop the devices into the scene icon. You will be asked if you want them to be responders. All should be responders except one, if wanted . ISY will then write the links automatically to all devices involved. Battery devices need to be in linking mode first. ISY will then keep track of your scenes, can repair them with a simple mouse click etc... Once created the secene devices can be modified for different ramp rates and levels in the admin console. It's a great Scene manager, making it much easier. Your iRLink is likely full of half links going to the old SwitchLinc and needs to be factory reset to clean them out first.

Canadian source if convenient. https://www.aartech.ca/isy994-zwave-plus-upgrade-module

Did you build the Insteon Scene connection using the ISY as the scene manager? ISY doesn't know statuses unless the devices tell them. Insteon devices do not send out status changes from scenes IIRC. If so remove the scene from both units and/or factory reset them, restore them from ISY and then use ISY to build the scenes so ISY knows what you are doing or use programs to pass the information.

Insteon devices can do this quite well with their ramping. Other devices do not do it well. The look of the sequence is important though, and can be annoying looking if some care is not teken with the appearance, for sure. I only see two complete cures. Amazing protocol speed and delay all responses for a synchronised effect signal. Sonos, chromecasting, and other synchronised audio systems must be using this method.

I try to set my ramp rates to different speeds to match and the differences are not that visible.

It isn't the power supply. The 6A 12V PSU feeds multiple strips just fine in a radial configuration, but the tiny conductors in the strips have too much voltage drop to feed a sequential 5m of strip. I was thinking of beefing up the power supply trace with an external conductor also but every one of the five would need to be done or just one single negative return. The best way I have found is to use a common box with two sets of electroncs and feed both directions every 10m, 5m each direction. PSU can be shared if 6 ampere.. Only one receptacle end required and the RGBWW strips run just fine on a 3A supply anyway.

The two protocols are not complete backup for each other. The whitepapers describe dependence on each other. RF only gets repeated over powerline and vice versa. RF is dependent on powerline for synchronisation of hop timing. Of course a whitepaper is only a public concept, not what is actually being used.

Eliminate powerline? No. Decouple them them? Yes. I can see the original Insteon powerline protocol to continue to exist for distance and usually reliability. I can see the Insteon RF to completely change into a higher throughput protocol that is not coupled, nor synchronised to powerline at all. I am not sure how that would logically work but the speed of RF is desirable. RF is a problem with metal electrical boxes and short distance. Maybe it doesn't have to be.

From what I have heard (somewhere ), the manual query doesn't do it. I don't know why there there would be (or could be) a difference between program Queries and manual queries. The MS doesn't respond to manual queries anyway. Of course putting it into linking mode may help.

Which MS version do you have? The original MS doesn't have a heartbeat. and the lowBatt sgnal is only sent once. I have seen reports to use a query of the MS in an ISY program to clear that past indication. ISY only indicates the last thing it was told by the device.

Here is an example of Insteon's new promise engineering. Battery isolator strip pulls out and catches battery negative end spring, damaging it. (bottom end of battery) Here is the previous Rev2.0 design without this stupidity.

Yawn. Looks like they have no idea what to do next. We are going to, we are going to, we are going to... I just received two more defective design Leak Detectors. The PCBs do not fit inside the case. Brilliant engineering and even more impressive QC....NOT! I still use only their products though. Their basics are still the best IMHO.

CAO Wireless tags and WC8 with 1wire probes. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk