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My 2441ZTH displays every 0.5º C also but it doesn't send updates to ISY until about a 1.5º C change. I assume that equates to about the same as your 2.x degrees F.

If the results show many are using ISY, many more may follow. People often look for safety in numbers, when making purchases.

Ewwww. I would try to isolate your ISY from those noise makers on a different circuit, as a trial. You don't have the unit plugged into a UPS do you? They can produce the worst waveforms and burn out lots of devices. Just had another thought. Perhaps your ISY power supply is going bad and all your PLMs just look bad but really it has been the ISY PS. You should probably talk to UDI about this and let them help you get to the bottom of this. You have enough history for them to diagnose this and provide further trials to zero in on this.

If this is happenning to several folders and started after a version ugrade, I would install the latest stable version that is showing on your Admin Console after a backup, of course. If that still doesn't solve it I would make another good backup and try to factory reset your ISY, then restore the backup file. You may have to reset your geo location, DHCP, and other basic setup parameters again. It took me about 10 minutes for the whole process.

I assume that you know when the program is freshly triggered by the results and not the program icon colours? Have you tried to change your folder logic to positive? If . . $AlarmArmType is 1 Then . .

As per paul's report post #9 this sounds like the weak capacitors used in PLMs are being bombarded with powerline noise that the PLM filtering caps have to absorb. You envorinment may be making the PLMs die prematurely. Perhaps a change in filter capacitors to top qulity units, and/or finding the noise source may help.

Do the programs in the folder "continue to execute" or continue to be triggered?

May be good for ISY users to represent themselves at cocoontech.com forum. No forum membership involvement. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiu2EhOi4hb6gN4RQa-U6VA-SZ711Es1wseEkvcBqUI1r7eQ/viewform#responses

No Noob there when it comes to posting screenshots etc. When State variables change value they cause the ISY real-time engine to run through your programs and evaluate any logic that contains that variable, usually in the If section. Using too many (hundreds to thousands) may bog down the real-time engine processing, so IMHO you want to limit your State variable usage to only key variables that are needed for this function. This doesn't happen with Integer variables. Integer variables do not trigger any evaluation and just sit there doing nothing. Consider them lazy. I use hundreds of them to define values as in constants that never change. eg $TRUE, $FALSE Both types of variables can be used as logic filters eg: If 20 <= $sVar <= 30, just as well. The gotcha' comes in when you use trigger causing items (State variables, time periods etc.), as conditional logic filters in programs. They can cause sneaky triggers of Then and/or Else programs sections unless the program is disabled. Then the only way you can get the program to run is to call it from another program. EG: If . . $sVar >= 20 Then . . do something . . Wait 10 seconds . . do something else Else . . -- If $sVar changes to 19 while Then is running it will stop during the Wait and run the Else. Got it? ... ....Send money!

I may have missed a big point here. To trigger program and IIRC to get the attention of a folder condition, from the ISY engine, the variable used must be a STATE variable. Integer variables do NOT cause evaluations to trigger programs or folder evaluations upon value changes. Also....most of us use a prefix signifier to signify State variable usage. It helps everybody, including yourself to know what type of variable you have used. I use $sVariable_name, and some use $s.Variable_name. Note: I do not prefix my Integer variables, others may. You are very welcome. I just hope it helps the way others help/ed me.

Your program trigger to detect you are hone is the same one that enables the folder and allows the program to "see' the trigger. You have a race and apparently the folder gets handled last so your program is blind to the change. I would remove the condition from the folder and test. Another thing I prefer, is to set the stat into vacation/home mode. That way, any changes made on the stats become effective without running Admin Console and other clumsy (for every day usage) programs. I use multiple MSes to control my Occupied mode. Based on that and a 16 hour delay, I then flag $sVacation as true. $sVacation sets my stat temperatures back when it changes. Any movement gets a four hour timer to indicate house occupied. After midnight to 8:00 AM, no timer will change that. If the usually mudroom exit place MS gets triggered, the timer is only 20 minutes. If I set my KPL password into the security system programs, Occupied is False immediately after a 1 minute beeper warning. My house will correct about one degree per hour so, if I correct my stat when I enter the house, I will be tossing and turning in the heat and humidity all night. My setbacks are much more conservative. In view of that, I try to remember to set my stat back to Home mode the morning I am travelling home again. Edit:Typos

I use the MiLight controllers but 4100K is not available via them. With the MiLight/LimitlessLED controllers it's RGB or White, no mixing but the SuperNight RGBWW strips have the nicest white I have seen. Very smooth white good for work surfaces without being 6500K but good for softer lighting too. My guess is about 3000-3500K.

We don't ever use Tags wires in Canada. They won't pass our safety code unless you can wrap tape continuously from one end to another. I am not sure that is legal anymore either.

The biggest stumblng block for Switchlinc installers is that Insteon switches do not support 3-wire switch wiring. Insteon supports multiple switch controlled lighting through Insteon signal logic. I have two switchlincs operating as a 3-wire logical configuration that are barely in the same house, let alone on the same circuit.

Since most of us in the HA world here are Canadian, it would only make sense. "Teken, you are at the 990 word limit, set by yourself!" Yeah, I had barked about that in another thread, why there isn't a simple notification system in place for real world things. How about: "Teken, I hear you talking. You have events on your calendar today. Do you want to hear them now?" "OK, I'll ask again in four hours" "Teken. The webpage you are monitoring at Cruises'r'Us has changed. Do you want to hear the price changes?"

Your UI and firmware version don't match. Stu is trying to help you. Read his posts.

RGBW has to have 5 pins. If you cut the 5m length into four lengths, then two of them will have no connections on the ends. I have done soldering all my life and I doubt I could solder another set of wires onto a silicone dipped PCB strip that the foil will evaporate when you apply a soldering iron to it. If you are thinking about the solderless, 5 pin, snap on connectors, they sell on eBay, I have a box of them and the spacing is incorrect. They don't work despite the cons they give you on eBay. The vendors admit it but still sell them for those strips. They short out some connections. The 5m strips come with connectors welded on each end. You will have to fold the 2.5m lengths in half for easy factory made connections.

You may want to use the single width strip folded back. They come in 5m (15.4') lengths with connectors on each end. Cut in half and folded would give you 49 inches. I suspect inside a tube could give you heat problems and burn out the LEDs though. LEDs run hot when confined and can't take their own heat generated without lots of cooling. The SMD5050 RGBWW strips have a beautiful white that appears to run about 3000-3500K. I have several RGBCW strips that I replaced after seeing the WW strips. The CW ones were way too violet, against 6500K fluorescent tubes, and not what I consider white at all.

The Admin Console has always been intended as a maintenance port and not really for various users to operate devices from. Multiple levels of access would make more sense from the mobile apps available, and/or rest interface.

Just to complicate things.... I send a similar notice with the last known time ISY was running. This takes V5.0.4 to record the time into a variable, and another variable to know if the notification has been sent and continue updating the $last_known_time variable. The user can subtract the last known time from the message time to determine the length of power down time.

In the program summary tab you can right click on any program and see the option in the falldown menu.

Wasn't that when Prime Minister Horton got his double double in parliament on that one?

I have six exterior doors that have glass in them and wouldn't need to buckle, just break. I also have about 19 reachable windows that wouldn't need to buckle either.

Nope. I had one early Chrome version forced on me and one I installed voluntarily. Ruined both my systems and they both had to redone down to the bare HDD sectors to get control back. I don't install Chrome on my Windows machines, anymore. I prefer to have all the features of IE also and Chrome doesn't support so much now. Chrome is fine for mobile devices that you don't expect much from. I woud rather go without some HA than risk those problems again.

Well Thanks. Maybe there is another way using windows tools. For now I'll have to leave it in the USA.