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My 2441ZTH units (I have two) report temperatures in a one byte (8 bits) value 0 - 255 value = 0.0 - 127.5 degrees C. There is no negative values as it is not possible in the protocol. I don't think 0.5F resolution is possible, only 0.5C resolution. Despite forced sending testing showing about 1.5C change before sending, ISY always seems to be accurate to sensor temperature. I wouldn't use an Insteon thermostat for main HVAC in my home. I use them for sensing probes, backup = anti-freeze protection, and humidity control ventilation. Non-critical applications. Stusviews uses them for fireplace control.

Please read post #2 again. You are asking all the same questions I have already answered there. Thanks

Yes. It has to be a State variable and it will trigger program every time it changes. You don't read the temperature from the stat. It tells you (ISY) the temperature when it changes. If AC stat temperature > -999 Then set $sVariable = AC Stat, Temperature set $sVariable init to AC Stat Temperature <---survives power failures Else -- If $sVariable <= 20.0 <---stat provides hysteresis Then turn heater On wait 100 hours turn heater Off Else turn heater Off

I have to assume you mean the 2441ZTH. I had to bring it through the back also. I used some small hex nuts to raise the stat off the wood wall to accommodate that. I used a 5v adapter to run it and left the batteries in. They don't appear to get used when the AC is on and no backfeed into the batteries, is apparent. It works well. I cut the plug off and used the bare wire into the terminals in the stat. ISY does not retrieve the temperature from this device. Insteon is not a polling system from the master. Insteon is a report by exception system from the remote device. When the temperature changes about 1.5 C the stat sends a new temperature. ISY is blind after a power cycle until the stat reports a change. Many don't like this. You can memorise the temp. in a variable easily with v5. Now use the variable in your programs. Humidity is sent on a regular timed basis. IIRC about 1 minute for AC and 5 minutes for batteries. The 2441ZTH is not too bad, lacking fancy features, and looks, but the updating has to be understood or frustration results from users.

In a previous house I used a few X10 switched outlets. Most burned out running cabinet lighting, and had to be replaced, poor quality. After selling my home and having to take them all out, I never purchased any for my Insteon system, when Plug-in modules are so easy to unplug, repurpose, and take with you. I would not use smart outlets again and I wouldn't want to scare prospective buyers away when selling next time. After a previous home sale I removed all my X10 switches, worrying that the buyer would demand them back. The day of the closing inspection the woman walked right to a cluster of switches where many X10 switches were, and said, "What happened to the switches?" I told her they were part of a security system that wasn't operable anymore (BS) "Well, Good! I thought I was going to have to get an electrician to replace them all". This house I will have to worry about prospective buyers being scared off by an alternative PV solar energy system.

That what the power on feature was designed in for, regular switch operation, same as the X10 modules were. This is so people don't have to use some app on a cell phone, but rather can enter a room, and flick the switch off and then back on again, to get normal bright white lighting. This way, real people, without the neck problems, can use them too. They didn't make the lights come on with a power outage as a feature. It was a bad side effect they didn't know how to avoid without more engineering time. The price is already ridiculous. My Hue bulbs run off an Insteon SwitchLinc Dimmer.

The accident was more from a user having an unsafe device that shouldn't have been on the market. and a few other factors. Then tried to blame it on technology. It was an attention getter. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/17477-insteon-almost-burned-my-house-down-now-isy-problem/?hl=%2Bburned+%2Bhouse

In the local URL interface ther eis an Install Admin Console option, IIRC I have to leave it open until I exit the Admin Console or it doesn't install.

It is pretty sad but apparently SH has been upping the quility, or trying. OTOH all electronics can be "worn out" early by dirty power. They are only designed to handle so much distortion and noise, or less. You have a lot of lightning strikes in your area? Got bad service grounding? Got a bad neutral in your house? Got a noisy UPS or inverter? Got bad connections on receptacle wiring? Bad switching power supply in another electronics piece? These are not the PLM's fault. It's just the canary in the mine that shows it first. I mympathise with you but the problem needs to be solved without your wallet every time.

Insteon does not use a three-way configuration like the exclusive Or function of hardwired switches. Insteon uses logically OR connected switches to operate the bulbs. Either can turn the lights on, and either can turn the lights Off.

Run the links provided under the thread announcing your version. When Admin Console runs it installs the icon but I have found it on my Desktop, startup menu and a few other places, lately.

PLMs are known to have poor quality power supply filter capacitors in them, and some think power supply noise could affect the memory of the PLM. When the PS caps go bad PLMs lose their links, for sure, so there is a relationship there that electrical noise could also get through and do the same thing. Electrical noise is higher frequencies that is hard for the PS capacitors to filter out and can accelerate premature failure.

I just installed a lamp as "audo video" and this worked just fine for me."Alexa. Turn on audio video" "Alexa. Turn Off audio video" Do you have code to perform your command in the Else section of your program, to be activated by your Off command? Try it with a device temporatily and see if it works there. (remove program audio video first)

Only takes about 5-10 minutes and will last you a lifetime, ...and for only pennies per day!

V5 has the features. Three things you should know. - Backup - Backup before - Backup after

You won't even know you switched.Unfortunately you won't appreciate not having decimal values and math, Repeat While constructs, comment lines, faster program processing, and many other advance features from v2-4

I wouldn't have missed an hour of V5.0.4 but I have no Z-wave and apparently that is a deal breaker for many.

Both programs test for the output to be "On" and your program plays with the same point. Does the 065 affect the other status inputs?

Looks like ISY made the Carribean Blue on the pie chart. Is that good?

ISY994ixxxxx has no USB port.

After creating you program inside the Else section you have to setup the vocals at www.my.isy.io ISY portal and assign a vocal name for the program call. Now you have to ask Alexa to run Discovery to link it in.

I just put the lines of code in the else section. "Alexa. Turn Off All Lights" Remember to click the Start button to shut Windows down.

We were warned about SkyNet. I wouldn't push it too fast, Dave!

I have five Hue bulbs Four originals and one Bloom. I am impressed with the interface but the colour rendering is horrific. The Bloom, OTOH is very nice with full colours. This factor alone with the Hue products not even putting out the same light colours is a PITA. As stated the interface is very well done but the power up at fill white brightness is just a step back into the 1980's following the X10 philosophy, attempting to compensate for users not having switch initiators to control them. I understand Insteon bulbs have got around this staring into 500 Watts worth of white light in the middle of a good night's sleep by offering a option to work either way. So far I have avoided any white smart bulbs except for the MiLight RBWW bulbs. I wanted the colours not the white bulbs or I would have gone and bought some cheaper white LED bulbs. ...and I don't control my bulbs and lighting with some app that I have to find my cell phone, log-in, boot the app and operate the bulb. So 1990s. Cool for the first 3 operations and then I grew up. This is about Home Automation, not operating lights by some weird remote control form of switch. When I do use a switch, it's a SwitchLinc dimmer and my ISY knows about all its types of commands and turns on the selected settings of light arrays. With a selection of about 15 variations for the room. Yes you can do a lot with 18 different bulbs under ISY control. When I double tap the SwitchLinc at the top or say "Alexa, turn on fill lights" you can feel the nuclear radiation warmth, coming from about 300 watts of white LED light. Thank Gawd for ISY, but for ISY to power up and turn off the glaring Hue bulbs, in the middle of the night, takes a good 5-10 minutes. Sure glad I don't sleep in that room! I may start to have nightmares I am in an operating room where something is being removed. WAF might be high there. Rant done!

I have learned by experience that the Internet is a powerful propaganda media. If I write a sentence in WikiPedia in an article, I find myself quoted in thousands of websites within days. I also find wikipedians attempting to quote the articles that are quoting my words, as gospel. Yeah the old cyclic reference where the originator was full of BS. I have seen whole word meaning changed and all traces of the real meaning of a word changed due to this phenomenum. Just post it on wikiPedia and the whole world changes it's thinking. scary stuff. When the medical examiners dig this poll up two years from now, it may show up as the law, who knows where?