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These problems were all resolved long before the OP post. The power blink problem doesn't exist. The halogen has been replaced with an LED. The 8000 Watts are segmented and low power replacements are being shopped for. The only problem is the replacement devices will not play with ISY994i nicely.

8000 Watts is not all on one Insteon switch. Doesn't that suggest staging is already a capability with existing hardware?. Doesn't Insteon have a ramp feature to avoid load surges? "If you build it, they will come."

Next step I would look for is, "does ISY think it is turned on?"

Read mwester's post again. That was not the method suggested.

Many manufacturers have done this to devices where they turn themselves on after a power failure. Insteon copied the X10 habits. This was an advertised feature for lamp devices so that the old mechanical switch on the wall could still be flipped off and then back on to cause the light to go on. The Hue bulbs, stupidly, do this too so that when I get a power blink due to wind in the middle of the night I wake up to about 300 W equiv. of white light in my gathering room. This is a response t the market refusing to use them because they need to get out the mobile device, run the app, and turn them on, as opposed to just flipping the switch on the wall on. ISY to the rescue! Knowing this problem, I have an initialisation program (Run at startup enabled) with a list of devices, that have this stupid feature built in, and turn them all off. I have no high power lights anymore. As a retired electrical utility worker I saw the handwriting on the wall years ago and have very few, if any, high powered bulbs anymore. I cannot afford to heat my home with electric lamps, let alone have to A/C the heat back out again, in the summer. You have spent all that money on Insteon devices but refused to spend it where it actually will save you money, replacing the energy pigs. Ironically, once you change to LED bulbs the savings you could possibly get with Insteon, disappears. Leaving a 9 watt bulb on 24x7 would probably never cost as much as the Insteon SwitchLinc to turn it off in our lifetimes. Invest in your future with lower bills. Mine peaks about $120 per month (dead of winter with shop building electric heat) while neighbours and family peak at $500 / month and big rises in cost have been announced again.

I would back up to basics using 443 all the way through and see if you can make it work and then start converting ports. I changed my port 443 to a higher, less common, port number and use it from remote to the ISY without any port forwarding, just IP conversion based on that port coming in remotely. I haven't found any location that refuses to transport that higher port number yet.

Port 443 and 55443 are secure ports and require https://

Does your firmware version and GUI version match? Help | About

I had the ISY Finder just sit there and do nothing also. There was no IP address in it so I hit the add button and added my ISY IP address to it and it works fine. Watch the format. IIRC the http:// prefix is required. If there is only one address installed it will run it automatically. If there are more than one you may have to double click the one you want. Yes, you can just close it, but only after the admin console starts to boot up. ISY will self-close it anyway when you exit the Admin Console.

Yes. again this year I discover my X10 plug-in modules cannot be reached by my PLM at the other end of my house. I was hoping to save my On/Off modules for other decorator items but the X10 always allows a glow on the LED Christmas bulbs when off even with the appliance modules/

I use a different approach for my deck lights split into two sections around the outside decks of my house. I can turn either light on and off or turn both on or off from either switch. Using your terminology. Garage Front Light 1 If ( Control 'Garage - Front - 1' is switched On Or Control 'Garage - Front - 2' is switched Fast On ) And Control 'Garage - Front - 1' is NOT switched Off And Control 'Garage - Front - 2' is Not switched Fast Off Then Set 'Front Garage Lights 1' On Wait 10 minutes Set 'Front Garage Lights 1' Off Else Set 'Front Garage Lights 1' Off Of course you would need to remove the scenes and create a reciprocal program for the other light 2 Garage Side Light 2 If ( Control 'Garage - Front - 2' is switched On Or Control 'Garage - Front - 1' is switched Fast On ) And Control 'Garage - Front - 2' is NOT switched Off And Control 'Garage - Front - 1' is Not switched Fast Off ) Then Set 'Front Garage Lights 2' On Wait 10 minutes Set 'Front Garage Lights 2' Off Else Set 'Front Garage Lights 2' Off

It occurred to me that sacrificing the humidity sensor on a 2441ZTH thermostat for a light dependant resistor could also work for ISY. All temperature functions in the stat would still function and ISY can read the analogue value from the humidistat as light level. Of course, some scaling would be needed. These analogue values have always been the hardest things to get into ISY.

Erratic behaviour would usually be noise on the powerline. If there is a particularly bad time of day for response start unplugging devices in the house. The breaker panel is a good place to start to mass disconnect devices and you know you get them all with a breaker. Another thing you could do is to map your house and draw the devices onto it, making sure you know where the dual band units are. A level recording of your activity can be analysed by some here that are very good at finding problems to start digging into.

You can do a device by device restore or there is a mass PLM restore command but battery operated devices need to be put in linking mode, one at a time. A significant feature you should know about for anytime you smell a problem is how to examine the link table in each device. Right click on any device in the device tree. - Select Diagnostics | Device Link table - Now you should be presented with table for the device with every link to every device function involved. - At the bottom you can click the "compare" button and ISY will show you what it thinks should be in the device link table. These should match and later ISY f/w will lay them over top of each other and show mis/matches. Restore dumps these proper links into the device. - Every scene and the ISY bidirectionally will show in the link list so you will see the PLM 'Insteon IP' address several times at least. - Insteon devices can hold up to about 255 links each. ISY does not have to be involved for links towork but ISY manages them better and easier for the user. Not recommended to make inks directly between devices without ISY management.

Right click on the device in the device tree and do a restore to see if the link table has been messed up or not patched properly.

Are you away for extended periods of time? My house doesn't freeze for a month or more of -5 (I assume you talk F). When I was building water didn't freeze until the second week of deep cold with no ceilings installed. Do you know what the "Limit" is the feeds the black wire from Line 2 120vac ? If the reset is in the control electronics the 24vac could be sensed with a relay furnace relay commonly available and an I/O Linc. I still think the temperature sensor would be the easiest method. Is the one you have installed not Insteon available? This could be accomplished with a simple 2241ZTH.. You should be able to set it about 3-4 degrees below you lowest expected setpoint and adjust inside ISY for vacation mode etc. You could even vary your sensing point home and away. The notifications are built in, controllable and humidity is available as a bonus.

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The forum software likes to create emoticons from certain character combinations. "username : password" but no spaces Your portnumbers can be found in ISY | Help | About I would use a REST sequence to set an ISY state variable to a non-zero value and then write ISY programs to detect this and operate whatever you want. You may have to set the state variable back to 0 with ISY to make it receptive to more MS detections again. You can also control the speed of repetitive reporting by not setting the state variable back to 0 until you want more actions. I am sure many of us would like to know what model of camera, you use, that offers these features. Edit: tapatalk created an emoticon also. I had to insert spaces

I have come to this conclusion several times in my ISY career. Later I always find something that I messed up. You sound very frustrated and it becomes hard to keep focused on a fix at times when this happens. One of the most common problems that happens is programs creating oscillating loops that can tie ISY up in a program loop as fast as it can go. People here will help you to resolve this as I can assure this is not typical of ISY. If this was happening to everybody with an ISY I would be here and would still own a Hub and HomeSeer 2/3. Can you view your programs on the program tree and watch icons for changing colours quickly? Do you know how to view your logs, and error logs, and/or post them here? Do you know how to record an event log using level 3 so that people can analyse it to start you on the road to recovery?

Low temperature detector in the house to detect ALL heating failures?

Let us know when it works! Then I can sleep again wondering if I missed something.

This should agree with LeeG's description in post #9. There really are no 3 wire switches or wiring in Insteon. Just parallel operation OR logic. One switch does all the work and another, unrelated one, has remote control.

OK. In the 4 gang box - SwitchLinc black to the black bundle - SwitchLinc white to the white bundle - 3w/black wire to the black bundle - 3w/white wire to the white bundle - 3w/red capped off = n/c - SwitchLinc red to the 2w/black wire - 2w/white already in white bundle In the remote switch box - SwitchLinc Black to the 3w/black - SwitchLinc/white to the 3w/white - SwitchLinc/red capped = n/c - 3w/red capped = n/c The rest is done in ISY. Don't forget the Factory Reset both SwitchLincs before ISY involvement.

This is what I think I am hearing. Branch offs from the white bundle and black bundle are not mentioned in the wiring chart. 4 Gang Fixture Remote Sw. ---------------- ------------ -------------- feed/Bk - Sw/B feed/W - 2w/W 2w/W - lamp/W Sw/S - 3w/Bk 3w/Bk - Sw/S Sw/S - 3w/W 3w/W - Sw/S 3w/R - 2w/Bk 2w/Bk - lamp/Bk 3w/R - Sw/Bk

What type of thermostat do you have?