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Find a real review site that isn't really just another advertising site faking it. There is a lot of money left over to advertise these toys that should sell for $39.95. I have seen a few videos exposing their deficiencies but they have all disappeared since. I have a model 500ish with dead batteries that lasted about 7 or 8 uses. They are still using ni-cad. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

...and once these cloud sales get flooded with clients and not many more new sale dollars, suddenly the "included" services become only $x per month for the first six months.

After about 6 years of my old garage door opener I added another just before Christmas. Suddenly my Insteon problems got worse and things in the house were acting very badly. After replacing my PLM I realised the timing indicated the new battery backed up DC motor GDP was making a lot of powerline noise. After doing some experiments I discovered the older ac motor GDO was making some powerline noise as well. After plugging both units into a different circuit, I ordered and installed two filterLincs and my Insteon system works without any comm problems again. Moral of the story is a new DC motor unit, and an ac motor unit, both made a mess out of my ISY HA. Strange that both technologies produced so much noise. Beware of GDOs. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

IMHO Insteon has put out top notch equipment for the basics, and their original releases, like plug in modules and light switches. Insteon protocol is one of the best, or the best, out in the common masses so far. However, Insteon's battery operated devices are some of cheapest junk I have seen. It seems like there is a divided attitude inside the Insteon manufacturing team and it is killing the company. No matter who has been in charge of the company it seems there is some factor or hidden person that doesn't want to allow quick progress. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

It will be automatic everything. I leave it off and check the box when updates are announced and I am available for any trouble that could happen. It updates immediately then. Nodelink has not given me much trouble updating. There is also a checkbox to update the ISY portion of NodeLink. I think I got into trouble with this one enabled (only) last time when it updated and my RPi portion didn't causing some critical variables to change. I recommend you keep both checkbox options set the same. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Some other Insteon device settings only use the lower 5 bits so that value 33 is the same as 1 and 65 and 129 etc.. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

You haven't seen how Apostolakisl managed to get all this in v3 while we were all still in diapers! Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Repeat while looping Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

When triggered by a change in the back door status, the program then or else section runs only once. There is no 'continuous' in event driven software. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

In v5 we have access to the current time of day, current date, month, and other real time items from the system. Many users did backflips programming to get these prior to v5. What are you hoping to accomplish?

Where are finding the import/export menu? I wrote up a thread about a year ago on using this. I was looking for it to help somebody in another thread question last week and spent more than a half an hour looking. I couldn't find it in the admin console v5.0.14. I just figured UDI must have taken it out again. Make sure you always Save after making any program or folder modifications. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Real time variable/system variables are available in v5. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Bash is the command line interpreter for some linux operating systems. Run the terminal screen on your RPi. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Query ISY? Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

That sounds like you do not have the Report "On Only"" checked..

Yes those all-else-fails timers are important with HA. People get to expect lights to turn themselves off and forget they turned them on manually. I use that with voice commands also. With the low powered LED bulbs these days it is not so critical though.

I think there is some confusion in key terminology here. If you remove the front cover from a 6 key KPL there are the same 8 switches underneath. Conversion (change of key count) kits are available.

Nope they won't but I don't use many scenes created directly between devices. I prefer the control I get when ISY handles them. Exceptions are between MSes and the Lamps they control (for speed of response), every unit in my home for security flashing, and a few Gathering room scenes (reading, TV watching, Movie Watching, Bright, Full On all affecting the same group of bulbs) I think If you want to break the path between the LED and the garage light you have to dump the scene connection and use programs. You just create scenes for each LED and monitor/slave programs to operate the scenes like this. If status garage Light is On Then Wait 2 seconds <--- avoids signal clashes in the same box set scene.LED.A On Else Wait 2 seconds set scene.LED.A Off Now whatever or whoever turns the light on or off, the LED will follow.

I believe the Max Hops are set by the system and used by every device. The retries are set by each device and many newer devices can be set from ISY options on each device. If the Max Hops bits are set to 3 and ISY shows Hops Left as 3, then no hops were used before reception by the PLM. = Direct between device and PLM If the Max Hops bits are set to 3 and ISY shows Hops Left as 0, then all the hop possibilities were used up. Devices stop repeating these messages so the system doesn't bog down. If the Max Hops bits are set to 3 and the PLM never received it shouldn't show up as an event in the logs. I believe it doesn't matter how many hops were used, the reception end has to wait until all three hops are bypassed (messages ignored) before it can respond with an ACK. If retries are involved the time it takes gets compounded. Now if the ACK has problems getting back also Insteon gets real slow. This is why a noise free power grid system is so important. Insteon usually gets there through a lot of garbage, but it can get real slow and ISY usually gets the blame. I just found two GDOs making noise (one since the beginning of time, one newer is noisier and gave the clue) and now my system is flying again!!!! My very first Insteon filterLincs ordered!

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@arf1410 You can add an extra logic line in your programs like this offering two (or more) paths for any event trigger. If control KPL.Button.A is Switched On AND it's nighttimeThen do whateverElse ----- If control KPL.Button.A is Switched On AND it's NOT nightTimeThen do whateverElse -----

If I understand you correctly, you want to modify the scene used with each key? I don't think this is possible but you can dump the scene links and use programs to make the KPL key operate anything you want and change it with programming. The extra program usage time taken is not usually a problem for manually operated devices, but Motion Sensor to Lamp systems should not have the extra In/out of ISY delay. It is annoying. This extra time delay is not due to ISY CPU speed. It is due to the Insteon protocol taking time and waiting for all the Hops to finish, needed or not.

Hops are not reties! When an Insteon transmission is heard, all capable devices synchronously repeat that transmission. When another device hears this, one hop is completed. This allows Insteon signals to transmit to the Initiating device---->hop---->second device----->hop----->third device----->hop----->PLM or reverse orde,r PLM---->end device This is not counted as a Hop Initiating device ----->PLM On top of all that if an ACK is not heard back or a NAK is received Insteon devices will/may try again with repeats of the whole process. Zero hops left is not a failure. It means it took three intermediate devices to get there. If it failed, ISY wouldn't know about the attempt and you would not likely see any recording of an event.

The 1011 means there is binary code to be written to your device yet. If the device is battery operated it must be put into linking mode first. Then you can right click on it and select "Write Updates" As kclenden posted above, you need good comms first or things get messed up.

Sure. Write a program for each button and put whatever you want in each program. Configure your KPL to non-toggle On mode. If control KPL.Button.A is Switched On Then do whatever Else ----- KPL LEDs can have levels changed with programs in the admin console (all for one setting) but LED On/Off can only be done with scenes. Of course, then use programs to activate the scenes.