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Your nickname in your router is not used by the Finder. Many do not even name their devices in their routers for it to work. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I see @Michel Kohanimhas been hard at work to make the wiki a much better resource over the last years. There is actually many directory links now. 👍 BTW: I never noticed a link the the Launcher until I copied the text to my post. Then it was underlined and an apparent color. Going back I see they use a very small icon symbol beside the link but the color scheme on a dimmed LCD screen is just not apparent. I attempted to brighten the link color but it just isn't apparent. (ooops...I guess there is another def. for a used link, also)

See my update above. The links were not apparent in my Firefox browser. Thanks again. I have bookmarked the wiki information. I have not been able to find it in the past.

Unfortunately that wiki link contains nonsense. You cannot use the file that you don't have to run the launcher. It's about finding the Launcher, not the admin console. "Installing the Admin Console Icon on Your Desktop It's always best to use the Admin Console application which is browser independent. To do this: Clear your java cache Use the ISY Launcher to launch the Admin Console. This should put an icon on your desktop once you run the downloaded start.jnlp file. Click on the discovered 994, Polisy, or eisy and you will see this menu UPDATE: This is a browser problem. Links do not appear underlined anymore unless you know they are existing and hover over them. Also the default link colour is not distinctly different from the normal text, making it hard to discern.

Thanks. I kept that file and changed the name to protect it last time. After restoring it when I ran it it reported there was a mismatch between versions, indicating v5.5.8 and v5.5.9 and would not install anything. I guess we will see next time again. It still would be nice for the automatic updating to install, or ask to install the Launcher, if possible. I have spent a lot of time for the last 30 upgrades looking for instructions how to get it back. Previously it would be found under the java app menu, sometimes on the desktop, other times hidden in a download folder and most of the time, nowhere I could find. Thanks

I clear my java cache and there is no start.jnlp. It was cleared out when I clean out my java items and there is nothing to launch. Then I spend at least 15 minutes searching the forums and wiki for something that doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

I am on Windows 11. What issue? How does the launcher link get installed on your desktop?

Not java related problems. These are problems with people operating the launcher. It isn't perfect and sometimes gives problems installing it as well as finding your ISY device.

I would like to see some automatic method to add the IoX Launcher to my desktop. I have been upgrading through almost every version put out since ISY994 v3.x and it still takes me 15-30 minutes of hacking away at different commands to make the ISY Launcher to show up somewhere on my laptop with a matching version to the ISY version.

What is the problem with java you are having?

That sounds like a great idea and sounds simple to keep a complete duplicate system, to me but... ...if there are bugs there may be no recovery back to a previous version to the controls system to recover may be crashed.

Maybe it should be reported on a ticket about the support ticket. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I was all against forced updates but after the bug complaints on old versions comment...now I am undecided. Maybe the usual forced push update load but user time decision when to install. Only danger I see is being half way around the world and an introduced bug shuts me out and there is no remote fix. Been there, done that previously with other problems on ISY Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Yeah..how many times has. ...'that's good enough for now' ... been regretted by people with real life experiences? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

You mean your admin console has On and Off buttons on it? I haven seen those since ISY version 4. I saw them once but they were too small to read. Now I only use temporary programs to see what is on the pulldown menus and try not to look at the device controls. Hey somebody could write a NS with an admin console on it???? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Amazon has a fabulous air quality monitor. It records and displays air temperature, VOCs, humidity, P)articulate M)atter, and CO. It displays on an Amazon Echo screen when asked to, and via the amazon Alexa app. It would be fantastic to see this written into a NS for ISY. It is very quick to sense anything and sets off my air quality alarm routines within seconds of pushing the bread down to make toast from across my apartment. Hairspray at the other end of the apartment drives it nuts until you open a window for ventilation. I have found no calibration settings for humidity which is typically within 50-60% accurate according to all 15 other sensors I have for humidity.

@MWaremanhad posted some programs he developed to map the results of this onto a graphic chart, all running from internal ISY code, and I had developed some ISY recording techniques from that to shape the graphic charts into better looking displays, along with dynamic file names that refreshed each month. This all seem to have been deleted from the archives now, according to the wiki forum link.

Where I am we end up going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. I would rather be switched to DST all year 'round so that we go to work in the dark but still have a few minutes of light later when we get home. This can be a real problem for people living at the far reaches of their time zone. Friends of ours, in Thunder Bay Ontario, complained about trying to get their kids to sleep, while the sun was still shining on their beds at 10:00 PM each night, using DST. The real answer is to retire and stop going to work at all.

Yeah. Click the ADD button and type the URL in manually. If found it will remember it.

Can't remember if I just powered it back up, loaded the old image back into it, or how it was done now. However, I had just moved and downsized a lot from a large home to an apartment and a lot of HVAC and security functions were not required any more, so I am not a good model to follow. The PLM is the worst problem as it has to totally reconfigured to talk to your ISY994. If you are using a different PLM then every Insteon device has to be factory reset and reconfigured for that PLM. If you have lots of battery devices it can take more than a full day. IOW: I don't recommend it at this point. I would tough it through with your polisy or eISY. If you cannot solve it, then open a ticket with UDI. Michel can log into your box and solve almost any problem. If he can't, it will become a priority for UDI to fix with a new version.

I could put it in the same box with my two ISY994s and keep them company. or Put it with your Apple II computer and monochrome monitor?

My reverse migration back to ISY994 was during the toddler time of polisy when features were non-existent and many more bugs were encountered. Since then I have gone back to polisy and abandoned my 2 ISY994s. Polisy now performs as well as ISY994 did so there would be no point in stepping back again, at this point. My beefs are still existing in both platforms now and minor AFAIK.

Yeah, we are waiting to see what QUebec and New York does about it because if we have a different clock time than them, the world might stop. Geeeshhhh! ...No. You go first then we'll do it... no you, I dare you!... no you....

I would encourage every user to petition their politicians to stop this DST nonsense. Many locations have. Just wait until fall, when your ISY has two 1:30 AMs to deal with in the same night. Then what? What will a program loop that executes every ten minutes do? What about a program that executes at 1:45 AM do? 2:00 AM? This will never be working properly for all program logic.

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