larryllix

No. Read my post #14. The ISY board is only for interfacing with specific brands of utility meters supporting user interrogation.

The way I understand it ZigBee, is only a very low level protocol anyway and having ZigBee makes you compatible with just your own protocol at the higher level layers in the OSI model. ZigBee devices are only compatible with their own brands, and not between brands at all. Of course, providing that is all true, it means Echo is hardware prepared for software licencing to anybody that will jump on-board later. Software is downloaded every day into so many things these days, without our knowledge sometimes. I know Hue professes to use ZigBee but my other bulbs and controllers use Ethernet and proprietary 2.4 GHz.

I never did get my 2411T working. It came with a sender cable wired incorrectly. I rewired the LED cable that were wired back to back polarity wise. It works but the linking doesn't even beside my PLM. It is sitting on the edge of the garbage can waiting for a push one way the other. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/19963-ir-sender-2411t-wont-connect/?hl=2411t

Yes it does say that but I think it has always stated that regardless of how many. I did notice it at the beginning (three years ago?) but it never meant anything to me or seemed to cause any problems. Get a new focal band on your glasses?

I would be trying torroids on sensitive circuits. They are easy to slide over the ends of any wire but they may block Insteon signals from passing too. Improvements may take some very educated trial and error using different filter types.. Hopefully one more trial than error though. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

For the first year or so, mine would auto load the admin console if there was only one URL listed, but I had to manually double click the desired one, if two or more URLs were present. Then for almost the last two years no auto load would happen regardless of how many URLs were listed. I always had to double click the desired URL. In the last few months the "ISY finder" NOW always auto loads the top URL listed regardless of how many are listed. I can live with either way but it has changed back and forth.

Mine did that for two years where I had ti manually select it every boot. Now it started booting automatically again. I have no explanation. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

If the generator is an electromechanically produced waveform, the 5% THD will be with a certain load only. Usually almost or full load. Also with type the frequency usually wanders somewhat and that make affect Insteon timing. If the generator is an electronically produced waveform (inverter) or co-gen purposes, the 5% THD is usually with a connection to the grid supply that absorbs much of the inverter voltage steps noise. If it a stand alone inverter type, the 5% THD will be at a well loaded situation. These types have a hard time producing a smooth waveform with certain loads, usually light loads.

Newer usage (slang) in some English meaning it cannot be broken down any further. ...or maybe cannot be stopped.

V5 can do it with seconds resolution so much better. I posted a series of programs to do this in the V5 section.

Nice! Did you know ISY has a modulo arithmetic function to make this easier? $hours /= 3600 $seconds %= 3600

You will need a few support programs to work with this basic timing loop but yes. It may make your ISY somewhat busy. You will need a program to run at midnight to transfer the accumulator variable to another one to remember it and then reset the accumulator variable, a program to send out the remember variable at a convenient time. You will lose timing if ISY power cycles, in all cases. If you run v5.+ it has a seconds since midnight function variable that is easy to accumulate from.

Use the Belias programs linked to in Post #10, this thread.

Here is a copy from the Belias program thread. 3d - Create a program called Leak Startup and ENABLE RUN AT START-UP If $iStartUp is 0 Then Run Program 'KitchenSink - Variable Control 2' (Then Path) Run Program 'StorageRoom - Variable Control 2' (Then Path) Wait 5 seconds $iStartUp = 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') ** Set to run at start-up ** Here is the thread where the power up program was copied from. Post #1 http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/11566-leak-sensors-a-suggested-complete-program-package/page-1 Now mind you, this program will also cause notifications to happen at the same time, 25 hours after ISY power up, also, if no heartbeats were detected.

I have a common initialisation program for the whole ISY. In that, I reset all MS low batts as well as all Leak detectors heartbeat detection programs. It's always a pain deciding where to keep these programs...all in one common place or with each device. Either way, it's always an easy forget to maintain thing, when so many other things are going on updating programs with new ideas.

Let's see what I have online here.... This one is a list of Network Resources I use. Typically I use three for each bulb. I could use a set of four NR for any all bulbs but ISY has a buffering problem and can send your new variable value for an old NR send. Using a set of three for each bulb resolves that and eliminates the safe timer using Wait 1 second between every send. I use one for Setting levels, one for simple On, and one for simple Off. Typically you would set up a brightness level, a colour and any other parameter in Integer variables. Then when you call a NR it uses those memory values to send the parameters. This avoids a bank of NR for every brightness level and colour combination numbering into hundreds or more. This one is for a bulb specified variable = one NR does all bulbs but is not used due to the above argument. Ths one is only for bulb 2 as specified in the URL. Other parameters are specified in variables

It would be better if you quoted a least a small piece of somebody's post. It gets that person's attention, let's others know who you are asking, and your post just happens to fall on a new page so it makes it hard to even know what you are posting about.

"close" works to turn off a light I tested but "open" just get's ignored. V5.0.10 / Echo / ISY Portal

You have always been vocal about certain things anyway but yes, vocal control has changed a lot for me too. I have two 4 button mini-remotes I haven't sen in a year now. The batteries are probably completely dead now. Wife know many of the commands now after hearing me use them ( the beatings didn't work! ) ISY can make it happen!

ISY time frames do not follow any other language simple logic. They exhibit dual logic personalities, one of triggered event driven logic, and one of inline style code conditional, conventional logic. ISY time frames are probably the most complicated constructs to understand.

I use that technique a lot! It works very well to centralise control and isolate triggers from many programs. When you discover a new method of determining "dark" you can change the code in one program and the rest will still work without modification. I use 7 out of 10 MSes reporting dark and even then the 7 factor is a variable I can modify. Nice!

Agreeing with apostolakisl above, is the ISYcode you use and others depend on, out of alpha / beta? V5.0.10 should have never been labelled as "alpha" In the same vein as your "Insteon/UDI/Smarthome" analysis...... You used the term "Smartphones" instead of "smart phones", as if android/Windows/iWool mobile phones were another division of the Smarties corporate chain. Way too much credit given there

I have a query for clarification about your use of the phrase (damn English ) "beginning to fail". Does this mean some have already failed...or ..some have started to function erratically? Being in a similar position as you my take on it....and I am procrastinating way too much. I wouldn't go about replacing things that are working well but I would switch gears in the future. If nothing else having a Zwave option will ensure all your Insteon devices work forever. I thik the writing on the wall for the SH/UDI relationship is getting clearer as time passes. As a severe procrastinator, I will give it another year and then start the ZWave trail, but along side what I already have. OTOH, I have developed a lot into WiFi and Ethernet devices for coloured lighting. Then again Hue is ZigBee, So much for my Insteon purity.........*SIGH**

People keep stating the blank status doesn't matter but that is nonsense. ISY programs have to test true or false, one way the the other, for blanks status fields. I need to do some testing for that logic since this has come so up many times now. Most are testing the Heartbeat with a 25 hour allowance. Some LDs send an On every 24 hours, and some send an alternating on and then off, one each 24 hours. Have a good one!

I hope you also tested each and every sensor and rest them too. I spent most of my years in industrial control systems. Electrical grid protection and control systems. We weren't allowed mistakes. Beer should be involved here. Some have successfully used both and it can be done but it takes a lot of mental homework and overhead. I wouldn't attempt it because I can't fathom any section of my HA control and inputs that could be isolated from the rest. ISY has plenty of computing power yet. It's the Insteon protocol that bogs down waiting to be so polite.