larryllix

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?

Hubs? We don't need no stinkin' hubs! Yeah and they are so Insteon conscious there! (sarc)

Interesting that Home Assistant is winning the race as a "side controller". Could mean people weren't as happy with it as when they started, or could mean the misread the poll question. ISY counts are doing well there.

I was on that bus once and it bounced us around fairly badly, running over all those apples.

Last time I factory reset both my 2441ZTH stats, as I thought perhaps v5.0.4 may have fixed some parameters not being settable, I had to factory reset one about 8-9 times before it would link and update properly with ISY. The newer unit had to be factory reset twice before behaving. Each time different parameters wouldn't work. Of course ISY has no profile information (not listed as a device) for the 2441ZTH, only the 2441TH stat. Sure it reads the model and version from the stat and displays it but no controls work on one and only some do on the older version firmware.

Well, as you probably know, in Canada, the price is higher if you pay cash, than if you pay by credit or debit. For those that don't know, Canada has no penny coins anymore.

As silly as it sounds... I got caught a few times like that. You always have to hit the save after opening any NR for examination or editing, or the Test button doesn't work.