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People have no rights to their purchased computers anymore. You just get what you are given on your "rented" machine now. Usually this ricochets back to you from google asking if you want to approve this before allowing it.

The powerline signal has a much farther rating than RF. If memory serves the powerline signal is 500' and quite possible it will travel to the pad mount transformer and back to the outbuilding. There will likely be no passing "through" the pad mount but dual band units at the other end can transverse the phases with Insteon. Making the outbuilding a sub service from the house or vice versa would make less dual fixed charges on your monthly bill. Dual first rates may be a bonus though, depending on billing structure. Is the transformer between the two buildings somewhat, assuming dual feeds from padmount, or where is the split in services done?

This becomes much more critical with all the laminate flooring happening now. Most of it is a hard surface / wear layer of something backed by compressed cardboard. A bit of water plus an half an hour, it's wrecked and all needs to be replaced. Now you pull up your baseboards and trim that will cost you four times the price of the cheap laminate.

Did you create the scenes using the admin console?

I had an Insteon Leak detector against the foot plate of my dishwasher for a few years. It got kicked around and kicked over many time. I had a leak that never triggered it as it ran out the side. Fixing the leak damage I now have the LD under the dishwasher without any problems in the last year or so. I missed one heartbeat in that time. This unit turns off my well pump, rings local beepers, and notifies us four different ways. With 3000 feet of piping in my basement slab (open system) there is a fair residual pressure to drain off but the dishwasher is on the main floor and should dissapate the residual water quickly. I know there will still be water damage but I will not come home to a basement swimming pool. The LD is surrounded by metal on the front face but the other three side are wood cabinet materials. It works fine.

Each aspect of an Insteon device can be a separate link. In the admin console there is a feature to download links from any device and then a compare button to check them against what ISY thinks should be there. Or you can just right click on the device in the admin console device tree and select "restore". Battery devices have to be in linking mode first before doing any of the above. It's a battery saving feature they have.

Only if ISY knows the scene changed. Many operations do not change the scene and are not reported. I have overlapping scene device lists and some scenes may change the status of a device and yet the scene is still reported as on. eg. I just activated my Gathering Room Off scene to 'On'. All lights went off and MobiLinc reported the scene to ON. ISY handles it and operates the scene anyway. Then I operated my kitchen bar lights on from the switchlinc. ISY is aware of it but no programs are triggered. This was a device operated in the OFF scene but the scene still reports ON in the REST interface to mobilinc. Scenes created outside of ISY will not report their changes to ISY. Study the scene protocol in the SH white papers.

I block all my similar types of devices together by function, so my ISY and related input devices are all 0.160- 0.169. RGBWW lighting 0.140- 0.159 etc. Printer and system stuff 0.100 - 0.119 etc. Then my router assigns guest devices randomly, starting at the bottom by native DHCP, at 0.010 - ? Right after my four routers 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5

Your quest really caught my eye. It was freaky you assigned exactly the same IP address as I did my ISY.

192.168.0.1 will be the IP of your router, not your ISY. Look inside your router for the IP address your ISY is using.

Yes. Your router will assign the next available IP address within the range of 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254 (you have set) less any already designated IP addresses within that range. Using the DHCP reservation table in the router will assign devices into that range only and not allow any conflicts. As I stated before, using the 192.168.1.xxx address range may find you in trouble with some new devices. Many new devices have factory defaults in that same range and if their IP address conflicts with another device on your LAN you may not be able to configure them and not realise why your system has more trouble. However this setup may allow you to access your ISY to turn on DCHP and then you should be able to change your router range to whatever you want, rebooting ISY each time to do a new IP address grab.

You are going to have trouble if you don't set all devices to 192 168.0.xxx. Many new devices come preset to 192.168.1.xxx, so they are clear of conflicts until you can set them up to your network range. This avoids any conflicts with existing user devices. I was trying to use both for some time , but I had troubles with many network things defaulting to the highest address which other devices couldn't access properly. Wake on LAN is a problem that uses that technique. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

No. ISY will request an IP when it boots up but the router will just issue it the next address from it's free space pool. Usually you could disconnect or turn off the device for a few minutes and when you turn the ISY back on or reconnect it you should see a new MAC address pop up. Then you install that into the IP reservation table inside the router and assign it whatever address you want it to be. It must inside the set up range of addresses inside the router. Now when you reboot ISY it should get the IP address you picked. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Seems like a really natural move. This could eliminate phones in the rooms, provide specialised music to the recipients, take requests to the front desk, order take-out food, etc.. etc.. Plus sell the establishment to the less techie people that find Alexa totally novel and fascinating yet. ..."test Alexa before you buy one?"

I assume you have viewed the event log, the program tree and summary sorted by event time, to determine if you have a program oscillating and eating the ISY engine time. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I got into bad problems like that when I mixed my UI and firnware version between v4 and v5 once. I finally did a factory reset on my ISY and reloaded my programs back in. This changed everything with new speed again and many problems went away. Unfortunately my best backup was older and I had to recreate some programs and updates from scratch. I would open a ticket with UDI and I am sure they will fix you up.

The admin console booting is very dependant on client CPU capability. From my 2GHz 1 core Netbook taking about 5 minutes+ to load, my 3GHz 8 core taking about 1.5-2 minutes to load. Contrary to popular belief I never run admin console on a Palm Pilot. More ISY element makes longer times. Backup takes about 10 minutes now.

This depends on what kind of LED lights you have. The commands and techniques would vary a lot. If you are referring to MagicHome / LEDenet bulbs / RGBWW/CW strips controllers, there is a Polyglot project going on (see another thread) right now. IIRC NR can be used to control them. I use NR to send out encoded messages to my own python3 code running on my RPI3 to operate my dozen RGBWW strips. Most of them have been cracked now but I am not sure how other protocols work as I have no other brands of controllers that can be addressed directly with WiFi. I have MiLight bulbs that I control with the same software as well as using NodeLink with that particular node installed on the above mentioned RPi 3. As a side note: I use many Alexa boxes as well a three Google Home minis. Nothing hits directly on my lighting and everything goes through my ISY with decisions before turning one a few dozen lights to preset festive colours or various brightness levels. My doorbell notifies both of us in text messages only if we are not home. ISY is your friend.

Yes they do. Any empty If section is considered If True

Likely a network problem with IP addresses clashing Need further description of what 'fails' means. Do both have their own PLM? Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I don't believe ISY even knows if a 'scene on' command is successful in the first place. If another device issues a further 'scene command' that controls the involved devices. The devices do not respond with statuses of any of the involved devices. ISY may have no idea what those presets are set to. This is to prevent an Insteon data storm with multiple devices being controlled at one time and an Insteon feature and development. Insteon scenes are presets set by the user ahead of time, and were never made to be modified or monitored. Instead of people always trying to change the design Insteon was famous for, just send the same scene on again every few minutes or do it with ISY programs properly. That's the power of ISY when you want to do something out of the ordinary. People need to use it. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I just added a direct email to wife and myself for my CAO fridge tag based on temperature and light. The KumoApp method would require polling to frequenty and kill the batteries too fast. A 15 minute update is too slow for detecting the fridge door is open. CAO Tags.

The download appears to work regardless of the error report. I have rebuilt my google home account (for the fifth time now) from the ground up, and I only have one account. Google home knows about all my ISY Portal defined links as soon as I give it my UDI account name, without using the ISY Portal download function.

Just ignore it. From what you have said before and the nonresponses I am getting elsewhere this problem, the style has changed and this is a left over process from before that hasn't been cleaned up yet. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I don't believe the ISY Portal has any control over program enables, only running Then and Else. The program icon turning green indicates that Then ran last. Many use programs that change the enable of another program succesfully and without saving.