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If I query a scene would I expect to get something that wasn't known before?

I don't bother with all that nonsense. In Chrome I just hit advanced and click ignore the warning each time. I know I am no going to hack into my own equipment and if I did, I wouldn't cause any damage anyway.

How do you "Query the scene"?

I brought a bad led bulb back and the newbie looks at the tip and found a scratch and told me the policy is not to return any bulbs. Now this was their cheap Utilitech brand and I told them it was junk. It took three seconds to light up. That was probably the clincher, returning for bad quality, not defective.

HD will not take lightbulbs back. I had one didn't know what to do and just slipped me a replacement once without any records but since they just tell you to call the Cree number on the package.

5.0.3 will be beta also. There will be a long road before a RC version will be out. OTOH after running v5.0.1 and v5.0.2 I would have no problem relying on either version for serious applications. Any problems I have seen were just gui and very minor.

If you have been operating bulbs with a starting ballast and the gap was not making good contact the contacts could be welded together now. Contacts that fallback under weakening spring pressure and not by a driving force mechanism are usually not a good design and tend to do this. Add some manufacturing oils and dust and a surge creating ballast and you have a burnt contact.

At this point I have to believe UDI's words that a signal collision is responsible but without complex testing of Insteon signal collision generating equipment this isn't going to happen. SH would be the only ones capable of performing these complex tests as they hold all the technology close to their chests and UDI isn't even allowed to use SH's chip without permission. How could anybody else even know what it does? How could UDI even know what the code running the serial port driver and protocol is? Why would SH even care to do this testing when it isn't their problem? My guess is they all are right but the problem is with such a simple and poor serial port protocol the ISY has some problem with the buffer crashing or overrunning and an ALL ON signal is created for the PLM. It doesn't have to be in the Insteon signal. I could be in the interface to the ISY.

Thanks for those tech heads up Brian. If I knew how to get the glass off, I would have been into them by now, because I don't expect much out of the Cree help line, although I haven't bothered yet, experiencing the receipt demand right up front. My guess is they have installed poor grade caps also and the power supply shows voltage dips amplifying them at the light output due to soft start circuitry and no soft off design.

Yes. Very stable but lots of gui stuff incomplete.

Just signed out and back in to Tapatalk. Let's see but I don't know how i could sign in to a user account that was never created.

As per the flavour here, I have my thermostat set for day and night temperatures and can override any errors in Insteon or ISY judgment after a period of time. I also have remote control of ISY and thermostat and alarms from other monitoring devices to alert me. For setback I use a program to set the temperature early to accommodate my comfort levels. This is always a compromise between being cold before bed and being hot in bed as my home drops heat very slowly and even the two degrees takes about 6 hours. It has a hard time hitting the night temperature on day warmer than freezing. If ISY totally screws up, my stat will kick the night time temperature at 11:00 PM anyway. For recovery I do the same thing in reverse. My stat is set to day temperature at 10:00 am as a just in case setting. In my programs I consider wind speed and outside temperatures as factors. The other factor is a measured speed at which the house drops degrees and rises degrees. I also use a wind compensation for my temperatures because it is very windy where I live and it creates cold draughts in far corners of the house from the windows. I increase the running temperature by 0.5 degrees C, the finest increment on the T7900 thermostat and then return them after 45 minutes. BTW: The windows are deepset design, latest modern heat saving technology, available in this area, so no need for the window R-factor discussion. Frequent winds over 50kph with outside temps of -20C make cold panes. My air handler fan motor is ECM and I run a cycler on top of that kicking in at regular intervals when heat/cold is not circulating the air,

Most install the thermostat themselves. They run at 24vac for most systems If your thermostat runs baseboards or has larger wiring on the terminals it could be 120vac and you should get an Electrician if you are not confident in doing this. There are many threads on this forum about wire colours and connecting them. I would suggest taking a picture of the wiring in the back of the stat and posting it here, in a post. Need to use the "Use Full Editor" editor though.

As per Techman above, use Insteon 2441ZTH to send temperature and humidity to ISY. I wouldn't be comfortable having Insteon signals operating my HVAC equipment for heating but I would be comfortable operating the HVAC circ fan to even out the temperatures. If your Insteon system fails the furnace may not turnoff and be stuck on. I would save that for direct wired reliable equipment only. Having said that I do modify the temperature on my Venstar thermostat but the stat has regular time quadrants during the day where it sets the temperature back to it's schedule.

Unfortunately the beep parameter does not function so it isn't a good feedback.

I am not sure how you would do this as I have never used queries for devices. You could run a timeout program that the humidity update keeps reset but that would depend on the humidity changing constantly. A long timer could be used to perform this but may not work perfectly. If the humidity sensor sends the same RH every time the program will not get triggered, If humidity >= 0 <---- just this may be enough to trigger the Wait reset Or temperature >= 0 Or heat contact is switched 'On' Or cool contact is switched 'On' Then Wait 60 minutes Send a notification 'Stat comm failed' Else ---- I have been tracking and controlling my humidity here for the last month and it wiggles and bobbles continuously but I am mechanically attempting to keep it constant. Opening a door for 5 minutes causes a drop for about 3-4 hours. It's below 0 C here and very dry when the air is heated inside.

DDNS services do not access, or have any knowledge of your ISY's IP address on your LAN. Those addresses never get outside of your router onto the Internet. That isn't the way DDNS works. The DDNS service only knows your ISP created and issued IP address, issued to your router, after your app or router contacts the DDNS service web service with it's ID information..

The 2441ZTH sends a humidity update as a heartbeat every minute, or longer if on batteries.

That would be hit by a defective or hacked drone delivery copter running java.

Then your router is running an app to keep the DDNS service updated. Something has to do it for the system to work. ISPs should provide this service. They always know your IP address. They created it.

You are probably just "under the wire" before the planned obsolescence marketing hit. I love the new "Energy Conscious" programs going on with the new appliances. We have incentives they will pick up your old appliance for free if you buy a new one and the old one is fully working. I dumped my 18 cu foot freezer measured at 550 kWh/year for a new 14 cu. ft. unit rated at 765 kWh / year, high efficiency. I have fridge that didn't have the "Energy Star" approval but was rated at about 75% of the lowest energy usage "Energy Star" rated fridge in the same size class. It was cheaper due to not purchasing the "Energy Star" rating label. I shopped hard 'cause I was putting it on solar only while I built my home.

Now that we have set the ISY "hook" you have an obsession hobby for life a while..

Looks like your Light Saber just cut off my...... ERROR 404

MobiLinc is the best I have seen also. You need to nail down your ISY IP address on your LAN so it doesn't keep changing. Your router needs to have a hole punched in the firewall, called port forwarding. What happens is that your mobile connection talks to your ISP IP address your ISP assigns your router with a port number that you assign. eg: https://103.123.321.456:443 (note the 's' for secure protocol needed) You router has a table of forwarding where it swaps packets coming in on port 443 (you assigned in the router port forwarding table) for the IP address and port number the ISY was assigned by your router. To test, turn off the WiFi in your mobile phone and run MobiLinc or other App/browser to that external address and force it to go through the mobile system to your router and into ISY. Port has to match. Basically your router has to act like a language translator. If your ISP changes your assigned IP address you have to change your setup. The DDNS services require an app or some software on your LAN system to send updates to it. Then your mobile device talks to a personal URL the give you, and the DDNS service translates IP and port addresses, to access your router --> ISY.

I own a frost-free upright freezer and the control board went dead last year. I was quite surprised that the replacement board was only about $80 and plugged right in from the front of the door. I was pleasantly surprised, s I was prepared to break all the snap buttons off the door liner and dig through the insulation to get at the connector. ISY came to rescue again on this one! I found the series contact from the PCB and bypassed it, locking the compressor system on. Then I plugged the freezer into an Insteon On/Off Module I wrote a program on ISY to control it using outside temperature compensation to adjust the On/Off cycle ratio from 30% to 70% of the time, depending on outside temperature. It took some experimenting with the cycle time but did the job while I waited 2-3 weeks for the ordered part to arrive. I was surprised that Whirlpool makes all the brands except for a European brand or two. I was told by a few that 6 years is the expected life of an major appliance since they bought everybody. Don't tell my 35 year old Maytag laundry machines but that was before Whirlpool bought them too.