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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?

The positioning of the MS is more important. I use MSes in all bedrooms mounted over the head of the beds about face height if you stand on the bed mattress. You can kick your feet into the air to get a light on, or stand up but rolling very seldom activates it. I also use scenes and dim the response of the bulb in the sleep hours to about 15% (100W equiv LED) so it doesn't blind anybody. I also use ramp speeds about 2.0-4.5 seconds for night responses. I use manual override programs from miniRemotes and wall SwitchLincs to lock the light on 100% when needed. An all-else-fails-I-forgot timer in the program restores automatic operation as well as a manual override Off click. I don't need to use any variables for these programs. Times frames are used by other dedicated programs that just change scene levels. These can be combined but I find each bedroom has it's own schedule requirements. Time delays are not noticeable using this technique.

Elk is non-Insteon, hardwired control system, that communicates with ISY. It is felt that ISY does not issue an Insteon All-On signal but rather two signals get bit-confused and devices only interpret it that way. This would be an Insteon thing only.

Android MobiLinc needs to have a new image captured from ISY in Setup|Light Controller when a new device is added.

Hope that's it!

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Thanks. What I wanted to know was why ISY has this in it's setup options if it is just a scene setup and sounds like it doesn't connect ISY into the loop.

Thanks stu. If I read that correctly, this is a scene setup from ISY without ISY involvement in the links.

I saw this grouping with my KPL also. What was the intention of this feature?

Good point! Don't give them any ammunition to blame a problem on something in your side of the court. It gives them an opportunity to walk away until you do something and then you are on the hook. Keep the ball on their side of the court.

Not likely Insteon RF signals would affect the millivolt wiring in a furnace otherwise every cell phone, radio station, and WiFi router signal would disrupt it also. The powerline communications are done .across the live to neutral on the household grid and should be received everywhere in the house. The power supply inside the furnace is usually and mostly 24vac to run coil based relays. Any sensitive electronic circuits have filtered power supplies that should remove any minute signals from the smoothed dc power. Having said that nothing is concrete but signals bothering another piece of equipment indicates a poorly designed, or defective piece of equipment. If the minute Insteon signals bother other equipment they have no business being in a household environment out in the real world.

Read my edit. I missed your latest.

Put your time frame condition and Then in an isolated program that is disabled. Call it from the power level condition enabled. Now the timer will always finish. It's that inverted mountain air