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I thought Trane was just rebranded Honeywell thermostats. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

The phrase "latest" is meaningless as Stu posted. Clarification is being requested, that's all. I am running v5.0.8 as the latest version. There is latest release candidate. There is latest official release. There is latest alpha/beta firmware release.

Make sure you clean out your java cache and apps in the Java management app from Control Panel. Then run one of the links supplied with the version release thread. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

This is thought to be caused by battery operated Insteon devices, with their multiple signal sends, clashing with another signal being sent from ISY and creating an all on signal erroneously. Check your programs for creating this condition. Possible cures is to use scenes between battery devices and intended targets when immediate responses are wanted, And Insert wait delays before echoing responses from ISY. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

Oh. I have issues but not like yours, so far. ....................mind moving away some? Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

I was just wondering where you would care about the spelling with Alexa. Are you referring to the Alexa app or Alexa website app? Sometimes more background helps people to give help, workarounds, and alternative methods.

Why do you need correct spelling? sent from a really small mobile keyboard, so may be a short response.

Both of my models have 5v power supplies attached and transmit and received as well as any Insteon device does. Both send updates to ISY within their very poor specs, but only the older one can be controlled from ISY since v3. Some ISY features do not function with the working unit.

With v5.0.7 I had my win 7 x 32 laptop lock up many times without any method to escape or abort the admin console. Roughly about 6 or 7 times I had to use <cntl><alt><del> to get to the task manager to kill the process before I could gain control of the OS again. I haven't seen it with v5.0.8 yet but I haven't used it much. I haven't seen it lock up, re-login request, hang, blank out the icons at the top, or completely lock up the process yet, even once. java version 8 build 111 loaded Dec 25, 2016 currently. Tonight I had my program load time exceed the java session timeout time and my login credentials were again requested before it could load the programs and variables. It's getting non-functional on slower computers. After a second login the admin console cannot be trusted and needs to be rebooted starting the failure cycle over again. This is a java problem. In the last few years java has become so slow it makes some machine useless.

Welcome to the forum! Check about refusing them at the door or package them and attempt to return them using a silly line like "I though they said they were WiFi. Isn't Insteon a just a brand name?"

Doing the Off timer in ISY allows you to change the time delay. In the middle of the night you may not want you tripp to the toilet to leave the light on for 15 minutes, but during the day you may not want it to keep going off while you sitting motionless on the throne.

If the Off is enabled it is sending an Off everytime it cycles also. It is a lot easier to handle if it only ends an On, everytime it see motion. If you have a long time timer, you should be able to use the conserve function.

The timer is when the Off will be sent. The motion detection blanking is a separate and not user settable timer. IIRC it is about 2 minutes specified in the manual. The two timers are not related.

Another reason not to go to the "dark side" and stay with Insteon, real HA

Been there done that.I just logged into admin console , as per normal and you have to wait for a long time to get your slice of the CPU action. Right click on the offending program and select stop. You should see the icon changing colour back and forth like Christmas lights.

You need a combination of logic. You can use the light detection of an MS, the real time and motion sensing to determine fairly accurately if it is morning and you are rising. In the old days, of my X10 history, I used a 500W halogen to wake me up on work days, with long weekend exceptions, in the schedule. There was always that day that I phoned in sick, or Easter, which has such a complex formula, it couldn't be calculated. On that/those days I had a mini-keypad that would just cancel the whole sequence. Otherwise, if I didn't get out of bed at X time, the halogen would start flashing too. It can be done with MSes but other logic is needed and that is all in the ISY box.

I live on MSes. You have to decide whether you want real Home Automation or just more remote and local buttons.

I use ten Insteon motion detectors. If they are well placed... ....They know when you are sleeping. They know when you're awake.

History repeats itself. Now our kids live in network communes!

Yeah, some thinking goes into each vocal definition for smooth syntax. Alexa. Turn On bedtime lights Alexa. Turn On bedtime sequence Alexa. Turn bedtime lights on. I tried all kinds of xxxx mood and xxxx lights but it confused the search engine with so many similar names so I reduced all lighting items to xxxxx lights now and it hardly ever asks for what device? anymore. The first word in the vocal seems to be the only word used, or it has the most weight in the search engine.

The vocal syntax is somewhat restrictive though. Alexa. Turn On XXXXX Alexa Turn On XXXXX to 40% Alexa. Turn Off XXXXX Alexa Open XXXXX Alexa Close XXXXX. Where XXXX is a Program (Then/else), a Scene(On/Off), a device (On/Off/%), and now a state variable (definable On/Off/%) The syntax can also be turned around but some have more trouble with that. Alexa. Turn XXXX On Alexa. XXXX On

We're just a scene of guys shootin' the breeze. Defintion: A bunch of old Rolling Stone scenies.

My two year old grandson, that can barely talk at all, know how to unplug his iPad, turn it on, scroll the screen to the YouTube app, search for his Paw patrol videos and select which one he wants to watch. Parents have not instilled enough drive, yet, to plug it back in each night to charge it up though. It's just unbelieveable what is coming on computer equipment now but until he learns more words and to type he won't be able to browse porn, or hack the passwords to allow him to order toys online. hmmmmmmm... The future will definitely present some new problems for parents. God help the parents that are not tech-savvy.

There must be a female that supplies voices for Alexa. Computer voices don't do slightly flat musical and raspy sounding notes.. I hope she is getting paid well. Alexa. Sing a Christmas song! Alexa. Sing Jingle Bells Alexa. Sing Deck the Halls. Alexa. Sing another Christmas song.

Polyglot has a Hue driver that keeps current status from the Hue hub.