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There are several threads on this back about a year ago. People blamed it on google but I never used google anything. My ISP doesn't even accept a password on a tight input channel from me but it stopped working without a domain that matches the other field with a domain in it. I changed everything to match and it started working again. AFAIC this was all ISY upgrades in security and nothing to do with ISPs or google.

My admin console has started hanging again with the greyed out icons to indicate it quite frequently again. This didn't happen for months and suddenly can happen from the first second to hours after I boot it now. I run Win 7 and 10 with ISY v5.0.4. It is very annoying at times but has been ahppenning since v4

I didn't know there was a log in ISY for the first year and a half. What do I need a log for when every device has status on it's own page and the device summary shows them all at a glance. If you want to see HA process traffic, display the Event Viewer on your same page.

Keypad lights only work from scenes.

This is good news. I wasn't successful with this in previous attempts. They seem to snoop my stats from my google account everytime. I had to use a virgin computer with no registered accounts at all to make it work.

What is your latest firmware? Does your UI and firmware version match? What OS are you running the Admin Console on?

I use the sms conversion link my mobile phone provider provides. Some time back things changed and I now have to make domain names match and accounts match in the field parameters.

Do a search for email to SMS conversion services. Most of them are open for anybody's use.

If you can control ISY from whatever then ISY can control all it's paraphernalia. I like to keep it as the central clearing house for the control and logic I can get. However most stats come with a free cloud service that can sidetrack the control should your ISY, router or whatever gadget fail. Usually, in that case other equipment won't be accessible either, anyway.

Not the same boat. Portal is a "hook" that can make another computer, particularly a RPi, into an extension of the ISY. This is like running dual CPU system connected by Ethernet. The Network Module allows you to send out Ethernet packettes in almost any protocol you will find, allowing you to inject into Philips Hue, MiLight bridges thermostats, etc.. No feedback is possible so it's a one way interface feature. EDIT: My comments were based on the Android MobiLinc that works differently, but lacks a lot of features of the iVersion and doesn't use any Portal for ISY.

V5.0.4 is the latest but in alpha. Some bugs but mainly GUI stuff, like statuses missing on devices pages, screen only and some too big for screens etc.. No program bugs I have found. Find the developer's forum in the UDI forum. There is a thread labelled V5 with the usual instructions. Backup...backup...backup. If you have severe problems you can go back and no one will ever know you were there. Make sure your password is more than 8 characters???? first! You will need the Network Module to write to files as if they are SMS or emails. If you have a programming/hacker background you won't be bothered by any quirks found. If you have little experience you should probably wait for v5.0.5 but it will be alpha or beta, also

And ISY has a lot more.... Taking ISY V5.xx, have a read of this thread. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/7269-logging-variables/?hl=%2Blogging+%2Bvariables All code contained on ISY but a browser to interpret and run the script.

IIRC people have reported that the PLM Link count doesn't work properly as Insteon traffic will stop the count process mid-stream.

Just to further the same stat model discussion... I do not have a humidifier on my central air system so I use a floor humidifier, all run for the T7900, via Rpi/NodeLink to the floor model humidifier. The stat controls the setpoint and ISY controls the cycles based on that. ISY also co-ordinates my HRV ventilation system, T7900 stat running the fan, along with the humidifier so that fans are run simultaneously to conserve energy usage. (HRV needs air handler to distribute outside air). ISY can sense how long to run HRV based on outside air being beneficial. ISY also cycles fans when needed based on a time cycle synchronised for the last time they were run, not just a straight timer overlapping heating usage cycles.

I sometimes have a few seconds of delay for confirmation. I expect that going from a mobile phone network, through many bridges to the Internet , through my router conversion, operate the light, Insteon report status back and all the way back again.

"Insteon Hub" is a completely unrelated product???? You can't use both without lots of trouble and understanding to avoid system confusion.

I have two Insteon 2441ZTH units, The older one works both ways perfectly. The newer one reports perfectly but I cannot control it. Most of the problems are not understanding the reporting method. It gives many people problems looking for statuses that ISY can't know yet. I also have two Venstar ColorTouch stats and many 1Wire probes and CAO Tags. I like the CAO Tags best. Accurate, stable, and can report 25 different ways, but cloud dependant for allowing operation, despite local operation.

Not complete. The MS will have at least three links to PLM/ISY. There is a Light/Dark link, a Motion Link, and a few others.

MS units are notorious for having really strange things happen if not Factory Rest before linking to ISY. I have ten MS units and half of them dod things that shouldn't be possible until factory reset and then restored with proper links from ISY. I recommend you do this by removing the battery for ten seconds, reconnecting while you hold the linking button down, until it totally stops buzzing. Tap the link button twice to take out of Linking mode. Now put the MS back into linking mode and right click on the MS in the device tree and select restore. Back to normal mode again. After that tap the linking button several times and watch your ISY status page. Doing this you can send alternating On and Off signals to test the pathway to the status indication.After that the rest is programming.

If I can guess what Stu is getting at, the 'Wait 2 seconds' will change the visual response time of the con change in the program tree. This will allow you to see the MS trigger the program for say 1-2 seconds and then turn off again. We need to break this down into proving your MS is even linked to ISY properly proving the MS is triggering your program proving your programs are operating your lights.

Has your admin console timed out? When mine times out the icons at the top of the Admin Console go all grey. Then no updates are had on the screen. This happens when Java just times out like a screen savers for some reason. Then I have to reboot my Admin Console. This can happen immediately when I open it or hours later sometimes. You should be able to see the icon colours in the program tree change colour, if you have that option turned on. Also try right clicking on your programs and selecting "Run Then" to test your programs without MS intervention. Now you can isolate the problem to program or MS.

You can't disable the ON also. Then the MS wouldn't do anything. Yes you can eliminate the auto Off. Just remove the lines Wait X... and Turn off....

Enabling the Off from the MS will drain your batteries faster and take away a lot of ISY control that you should have. You should disable the ON in the MS (this makes the timer moot also) until you get this down in your head, and working. It takes a while to get this through to people, at first. Later it will become much easier once you get on to trigger based programming.

You will need two programs then. Disabling the second program will protect changes from stopping execution. Master Bathroom Auto Lights - [iD 0006][Parent 0001] If Control 'Insteon / Master Bedroom / Master Bathroom Motion Sensor' is switched On Then . . . Run second program (If) Else . . . -- Second program (DISABLED) <----nothing can stop me now!! If And Status 'Insteon / Master Bedroom / Master Bathroom Vanity' is Off <---triggering is disabled And Status 'Insteon / Master Bedroom / Master Bathtub' is Off <--they still work as logical filters though Then Set 'Insteon / Master Bedroom / Master Bathtub' 33% Set 'Insteon / Master Bedroom / Master Bathroom Vanity' 33% Wait X minutes Turn them off again Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

These lines will stop your programing from running when you change the light status. Any change in any device will cause you If to be re-evaluated and start Then or Else over again. This can stop further lines from executing.