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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.

As previously noted the Tag manager seems to have to check in with the cloud service to do local notifications???? sux! Price? Christmas present but I have noted the prices has jumped massively in the last year or so. CAO seems to be the only ones selling them, even if Google shows SH selling them. There may have been some marketing path flop there.

95% of these problems are solved with a vacuum cleaner to clean the filters at the bottom where the frost free drip pan and cooling coils are found. This happens to commercial A/C also. Block the air, the humidity builds up on everything. The CAO Tags are awesome and so easy to use.. Here is my two tags reported on one chart. IIRC the sample time was every 15 minutes. Also ISY is aware of their temperature, humidity, X, Y, Z angles, movement, and battery level to 0.001 volts. I put one in a sealed cookie tin box about 30 feet from the manager and could not simulate signal lost condition. The signal went to -99 dBm but still has a lot of headroom to be reliable. The power strength and all parameters are adjustable. The Pro version keeps thousands of samples that "catch-up" should the comms be lost temporarily and is accurate to 0.4C. All parameters are calibratable if desired,

As jon posted above use the Restore command on the device. Right click on the device in the device tree in the Admin Console and select restore from the fall down menu. No need to Factory restore it to do this but I would anyway.... after much advise and bad times I always do a Factory restore on any device I bring home before adding to ISY. You can do a Factory Restore on a device any time and then do a Restore from the Admin Console and it will repair and replace ll the links that ISY knows about. In the future it is best to let the Admin Console manage all the links used by creating them there.

If and once the ISY looping linking mode gives up you can put one devuce in linking mode and do a restore. This will start the linking loop once again but one less device will be included to fix. The loop will get shorter and faster and your chance of success at catching a device in the loop atvthe same time it is in linking mode gets bettet with each success in a reverse exponential loop time.

With about fifteen battery operated devices, when I swapped my PLM I found ISY just locked me right out. The process was so busy trying to link to battery devices not much worked in the admin console. When I click on a device or another page it would take 5-10 minutes to display the page. If I clicked on multiple pages in desperation it hung it up for 30 minutes at a time. After my 12-14 hours of frustration (over night too) I concluded that battery devices are the problem with the UDI algorithm. If I had about 20 battery devices or more my ISY would have been hung permanently and never recovered without a reset. Linking a battery device was a painful process as you had to guess when the linking process for that device came around on the ISY list of unlinked devices it tried infinitum. Mostly the linking time on the battery devices times out and you had to wait for about 15 minutes for ISY to come around again. The ISY algorithm to change a PLM needs some work to not cause this user lockout. One try for each battery operated device should be the maximum number of tries with a message that they have to be linked manually by the user. As a work-around all battery devices need to be disabled before attempting the PLM swap. After ISY settles down and user response is resumes each device can be linked manually one at a time. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/17473-replace-plm/

Did you delete the Admin Console applet along with the java cache/file clearing? I always move my installed Admin Console applet to another directory on my desktop. When the java cache is cleared, with all three checkboxes filled, it doesn't delete the moved applet as it doesn't know where it has gone. I figure the applet must have some specific setup information inside, or associated with it, from the bad installation and it needs to be deleted also so that a fresh initialisation will be done and possibly work correctly this time.

I had some problems with this java version also. The system with the problems is Win 10 x32. I had programs missing at random throughout the admin console. Other programs linking to the missing ones showed the <undefined> text in the program lines. I almost started patching programs to make things work but the job would have been massive and taken months to patch together. I went to another PC Win 10 x64 and ran admin console...everything was still there so I knew ISY was OK....backed up again. ...back to the Netbook x32, I did the 'java delete everything' one more time, and after finally reloading the Admin Console java file everything loaded fine again. I have to conclude some admin console setup is based on the java version and wouldn't run with the java upgrade. So much for package independence and standard hooks!

The point was about calling lines of code that are not conditions and only triggers. These are lines containing 'switched'. They always test false. Your programs, being called, are all status conditions. Those test True or false depending on the state.

I think you missed that point. It doesn't matter if the program is called from another program. 'switched' triggers never present a true result from a conditional test. My guess would be the ISY engine doesn't even run those lines of code to test them. The program can not function.

The search phrase should have been "silicone clips" Careful of the prices as they vary greatly. You will need a box of #4 or #5 screws with the largest head you can find or a washer http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=100pc+Silicon+Clip+F+Fixing+10mm+3528+5050+5630+RGB+Single+Color+LED+Strip+Light&_id=251517403010&&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2658

I doubt determining a difference between a dotting squirrel hauling his nuts and human things is not possible with an MS not focused to eliminate certain motion levels. Security MS units have pet, blinding techniques to not see below a certain vertical level.