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I find the admin console does not remember settings for each browser. One desktop needs about Font = 16pt and another needs Font=12pt. Any usage of one nullifies the size preset for the other system.

None of them stick with double sided tape. You require clips shown in other threads, or stuff track channels as Mr. Cold White (Scott above) used. My 230 feet of cheap RGBWW led strips work fine and other than the orginal section of bad red elements that were replaced, I have never had a problem with them at about $35 per 5m section. I do have some white 18 inch hard tube ones purchased for about $40 each I wish I had never seen but then I can hardly see anything with them How the technology changes from last week. The mounting quality is in the B holder. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Like most interpreter/compilers these days, the programs will be tokenised and not take much space at all, especially in this day and age where the kBytes term is seldom heard anymore, and MBytes are like crumbs on the floor. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I think everybody has got that error for the last six months. It doesn't seem to make any difference to operation. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Your IO/Link can only do the same thing your GDO pushbutton does. Each time you push the button the direction alternates. It could be determined with the status of the door, used in an ISY program though.

First. ISY programs do not actually "test" anything. ISY programs are event driven by changes of devices sent from the remote devices. ISY then remembers what the position of the devices are until told differently. Programs only run when a line causes them to "Wake up" from those events. You can try something like this in another program and develop it further by adding more lines. If Garage door sensor is switched On AND I am not home <------------ if you have a method of knowing this in ISY Then Wait 2 hours Close garage door Else ------ WARNING! This could be dangerous to close a garage door without having a visual of the opening and most will not recommend it. Prepare for some flack here possibly. Newer garage door operators do this on a timer but warning beepers are used before closing. This doesn't help a toddler that could get killed by the door or a toy that could damage your door and/or gasket seal.. Your conscience!

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.