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The Venstar 7800-7950 series require a proxy like NodeLink with a Rpi to comm between them. There are some nice ZWave stats that are used by members here. I have no zwave.

OK I just factory reset my one2441ZTH stat. What a PITA. I have v5.0.4 but this is the same thing I remember with v3.xx This thing would not link properly to ISY for about an hour and a half of resetting and linking. The best I could get was the Heat/Cool mode would report and contact/outputs would update. Humidity never updated. I tried the power cycle factory reset mode about 5-6 times with no success. Then I tried the set key reset method probably 25-30 times and finally everything updated in ISY. Each time I monitored the parameters for change with a light blinking program...nothing. I tried several times using the 2441TH definition, instead of the automatic find but exactly the same response, just contacts/outputs and heat/cool mode would update and no other parameters. When it finally clicked I left it alone for fear of losing the ISY setup again. I only show three links listed for the stat to the PLM. This seems like too little but al one way comms are working again and none of the ISY controls are working as I started with....so no luck. For some time I could get parameters to update only by querying the stat but then that quit again later. My suggestion is to keep on trying. ISY has no definition for the 2441ZTH and I suspect the support was never installed or never defined properly but somehow works partially as a 2441TH unit. For all the posts claiming they can see the device type, I know it shows 2441ZTH on the device page that it read from the device. That doesn't indicate support.

Sure sounds like it. I know I had to factory reset mine quite a few times before I got a decent connection with ISY. I have just checked my two units and ISY V5.0.4 is really not co-operating with them. The 2441ZTH is still not a listed supported device but I am about to try to completely destroy the ISY record of them, factory reset, and relink them to ISY to see what another year of ISY developement has done. Me thinks they link in as a 2441TH and proper protocols are not supported. The increment/decrement has never worked depite manual controls working and ISY knowing the temperature from the stats. That is an ISY bug, in my book. With V5 I could stuff the temp into a variable, increment it, and then put it back if I wanted to.

http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Developers:API:REST_Interface

I believe there is such a thing as modern routers that will do notifications upon a particular MAC address connecting in. This would be perfect and very reliable but I do not know of any models that do such a thing. I don't want t hijack your thread but, models of routers that have geofencing capabilities would be good to know. Links?

I use outside temperature sensing and wind, combined to influence my heating patterns. This is done with a WC8 board for wind speed and several temperature sensors for an averaged temperature and rejection of wild readings/sensors. I have found not much can be done to influence the simple automated control of an HVAC system by a good thermostat. I would be interested in how you want to make use of the weather information.

Gary likes to get things packaged separately as he owns a parcel delivery company.

In the end Insteon does not have three-way or multi-way switches. Insteon switches/dimmers are just logically ORed to the each other to control common lights. People call this 3-way or multi-way (for more than 1 switch) The wiring needs to be analysed to accomplish this from a previously 3-way wired set of switches as the colours can be confusing for even electricians at times. Without a complete picture we are all just guessing based on what is "usual" and you can sacrifice an Insteon device or two doing it off a guess. At worse cause a fire or electrocute yourself or one of your loved ones.

No. The external temperature sensor can be swap wired with the internal. There are a few methods using 1-wire devices with RPi or WC8 but the easiest way and probably the cheapest is CAO Tags I have four now and they are so easy to implement. They will natively email you, send temps to devices by URL, or about 15 other methods, even talk to you on a mobile app.. Mine will not disconnect to the end of the street about 1000 feet and batteries are claimed to last about a year or two. So far, I believe it and they use CR2032 batteries that I get at the dollar store in a pack of three. The Pro unit can save months worth of data and update the database when they connect again. I get temperature to 0.3C accuracy, 0.001C resolution accuracy, humidity, motion, loss of signal, X,Y,Z axis positions, weatherproof (some). To stuff values into ISY you need to install a little program in their KumoApp cloud service to make your master unit stuff the parameters into ISY. It can be downloaded or copied from a thread here or PM me and your variable locations installed. They are easy and awesome.

At the least the humidity should report every minute or minutes regardless. If you can't get that working check your event list on the admin console on level 3. If that isn't working you may have comm problems or just plain defective stat. I know mounting an RF device tight against a piece of wood or drywall can be a problem getting the signal out to where it needs . Try locating closer to your PLM or a dual-band echoing device that does work consistently. Examine the event log again on level 3. You should be able to see that humidity update.

I wouldn't want one in a room where my guests could see it easily or to operate lights on an everyday usage frequency but they can be really useful acting as 6 or 8 devices.

I used a hair dryer on mine for a few seconds to force an update into ISY Then to force the outputs to update ISY I cranked the setpoints high and then low Humidity should update by itself. This fools many people into thinking the stats are defective. The stat never reports anything but humidity on a time basis.

great!

I don't understand the term dongle used with a power supply. I you refer to a wallwart AC adapter, yes I am using one but that won't change the available devices in ISY in the menu list. I use that technique for my WC8 weather station board.

Since they are not listed as a device, that is the only way it can be done.

Try a restore on each of the two devices. Perhaps a link has been lost in one.

2441ZTH was never shown in the pulldown devices list in ISY. i\I have two and both show the correct type after reading the device type and version. Both have different features that work and neither have all the controls work. Even some of the program lines do not work with them. eg. temperature increment/decrement sends nothing.

Factory reset and make sure it is complete then link it again. IIRC ISY does not have a definition for the 2441ZTH and will link to it as a 2441TH only. I have one that is controllable and one that isn't, different firwmares. Both will report temperature changes when it happens only and both report humidity on a heartbeat continuous basis.

Just remember in the summer you may pay twice for the wasted heat too. You pay to create the bulb and dimmer heat, and you pay again to take it out with A/C.

I have everything in my LAN pegged down with a static IP address dictated by my router. Guests are the only devices that get dynamic assignment. Each person's devices gets blocks of ten number groupings just to keep it easy to figure out who is doing what. Printers and common things get different ranges etc. Every device uses DHCP and the router reigns supreme.

Yup. Four buttons can produce 4x4x4x4x4x4 = 4096 combinations, if all combos use six key pushes. I settled on four and three keystroke combinations to operate things, though. My KPL is right over my inverters so it is not 100% reliable, all the time, taking a second try at the combo, when low light conditions put the inverters in the low load and noisy synthesizing mode. Less keystrokes makes it more reliable. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/16135-using-keypad-triggers-for-a-multiple-combination-locks/?hl=combination

We decided years ago, after a few scrapes, GD frame repairs and body jobs to never back into our garage again. When we built our new house the Chief Inspector said over my plans, "No, you aren't using the standard 8' wide doors, you aren't getting any younger". Best advise I ever got going 9' wide. Yeah you have to drive in forward. Mount it on the door but the cord would be a problem. These days with LEDs and MS built in batteries should last years.

I have a 6 key KPL. The major buttons act as a light control for the room. The four small buttons indicate garage door open, lights on upstairs, lights on downstairs. The four small buttons also act as a combination lock with multiple codes for security, as well as turning my washing machine, or well pump back on after a water leak is detected. Each function with a different four key sequence.

As a test I have a potlamp (not a grow op) over my desk that flashes every time a setpoint change is made on my thermostat to prove my stat programs are working correctly. If you have ISY v5.xx firmware you can stuff the temperature into a variable each time it changes. If you really want to find out you can assign 5-10 sequential variables to the task, and shift them all down one and shove the latest temperature into the top variable each time the temperature changes. Then you will have a record of the last 5-10 temperature changes for your examination. It's your ISY, your variables, and your time,,,play with it and have fun. costs nothing. If InsteonStat temp <9999 Then var10 = var9 var9 = var8 var7 - ..... ..... var2 = var1 var1 = InsteonStat Temp Else --

...and each button could still be used to acknowledge alarms or other related activities, like lighting scenes around each door that is indicated and labelled on each LED.