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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.

Yes, typically a program would look something like this. Note the status of the MS may never have changed If . . . MS is switched ON Then . . set Light On . . . wait 30 minutes . . . set Light Off Else --

If you have the sending of Off disabled from your MS, as most of us do, then the recorded status, inside ISY, will never change to Off. Usually for MS units people use "Control/switched ON" as that is the raw signal from the MS and it can repeat any time it sees motion and retrigger timers from timing out and turning lights off. Status, even if the MS did send an Off, will never retrigger your timers because you have to get an Off before you can get it 'back On', registering a change that triggers programs.

You may not be able to get a 1000mW laser past customs. Somebody told me a few years ago the largest laser allowed into Canada was 500mW. Larger than that you may need special permission and forms that you are not creating a weapon. This is all if you get caught or it gets flagged. A separate laser element may get through customs easier. More checking should be done before attempting this. From what I remember about the 500mW units,some advertising stated they were not for plastics etc,, but perfect for paper and lighter materials.

On my two newer units of four that I have pressing the button for about two seconds sends an off and pressing the button very quickly sends an on.

Humour is always funny. This is dependent on your side of the thracks, though.You have to tell us when it's humour so we know when to laugh, though.

I use my Hue bulbs in conjunction with many other coloured strips/bulbs and Insteon white lighting all from one SwitchLinc dimmer. My SwitchLinc dimmer is wired to the central potlights in the room so they always get hit first. But with a longer ramp on the main lights I can scene hit and Hue hit on the other bulbs and make it look fairly simultaneous from ISY. I use top tap to alternate scenarios between TV and Reading modes. I use double tap up to put all Insteon, Hues, and MiLIght strips and bulbs full on. = very bright! I use long top tap (brighten) to set a brighter scenario with everything. I use bottom tap to turn everything Off I use long bottom tap to set movie watching mode= dim white lights and multi-coloured outside room lights. I use double bottom tap to turn off white lights in the ceiling (7 bulbs) off only leaving just coloured lights. I use bottom tap, while off, to rotate through colours on the outside 5 Hues, 5 MiLight strips, 4 MiLight bulbs. The Hue bulbs are very fast to respond but I use the main ceiling white lights to distract from any delays seen. BTW: The Hue bulbs cannot produce any yellow or green (no Xmas), any only purple shades of blue with only three LEDs inside.. The Hue Bloom uses four LEDs and can produce all the colours. I would try the MiLights first for 1/4 the price and the 9W bulbs outshine the Hues with far more light output and very rich colours.

What does the app show as the perceived words? Does it match or misunderstood?

Just like your humour sometimes?

Nice! Edit your ISY setup and set DHCP to enabled. Edit your router IP reseravtion table, find your ISY MAC address, and reserve an IP address for it. Reboot your ISY and then use admin console to verify the IP address was taken from your rouer DHCP server.

Looney Lunar effect? Really sorry if I mooned you! Well where I am, and I am sure you weather and mine are very close, neighbour, we forget that some people still don't have air conditioning. At work I would think back about the guys bragging "I don't need no stinkin' air conditioning" and after a week or so they would bark up a storm at everything that made a statement and everybody , with the A/C, would wonder WTF was going on. He always seemed to be such a nice young man!. I say this on probably the hottest day we have had in the last 40 years, IIRC. Meanwhile, the wife has decided to bake four or five batches of cookies and cakes.....grrr....My poor hydro bill! wallet.