larryllix

Years ago I had a home wired with aluminum conductor and the electrician used the push in self snagging receptacles. I had one burn my wife's hand once. The short sub is really hard to splice. Since then we have learned a lot about aluminum wiring but those self-snagging connections still make me nervous and I am a little wary of these types. I assume these have a larger saddle contact area in them to be more recently approved.

If they are approved for use in your country then use them. I still like the wire-nuts and believe they give a better and faster connection, especially with the wings on them.

I don't see any CULUS or CSA on the package. I assume this is listed somewhere.

Need that Else invoking phrase. If Control 'MBath SynchroLinc' is On AND Control 'MBath SynchroLinc' is Not Off Then Wait 15 seconds <----avoid the changed-my-mind Set 'MBath (Steam Shower Fan)' On Wait 1 hour Set 'MBath (Steam Shower Fan)' Off <-- bad signal insurance Else Wait 10 minutes Set 'MBath (Steam Shower Fan)' Off Edit: You are correct, I forgot the AND

LCD readouts are visible best and dependant on the voltage applied. Older LCD units always had a contrast adjustment and the best angle was adjustment dependent. Temperature affected the readouts somewhat also. Imagine that for a thermostat? If it is new you may consider the warranty complaint system.

The from-to construct only triggers program execution at the two times listed. However as a condition the from-to construct works as a filter evaluating as True between the two times. This can be dangerous as unsuspecting programmers using the from-to construct as a filter condition often get caught with the 'to' time clause executing the Else section of the program. Always keep this in mind when you use lines in the Else section with a time frame. Disabled programs do not have this behaviour. You're on your way to designing some fancy stuff that will tickle your imagination. ISY forever!

As jerlands stated above but I would do it with an internal loop. Program - 'Test': If From 08:00:00AM To 10:00:00PM (same day) Then Repeat every 10 seconds <---this time is plus the internal Wait = 20 seconds Set 'Lamp' On Wait 10 seconds Set 'Lamp' Off Else Set 'Lamp' Off

Try this. The parenthesis supercedes the AND which has a higher priority than the OR. It should have worked on Mon at 5:30 regardless If From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) And ( On Tue, Wed, Thu Time is 6:00:00AM Or On Mon Time is 5:30:00AM ) Then In Scene 'Outside / Side Yard' Set 'Outside / Side Yard' 100% (on Level) <--- set scene ON not modify it Wait 15 minutes In Scene 'Outside / Side Yard' Set 'Outside / Side Yard' 0% (on Level) <---set scene Off, not modify it Else -No actions EDIT: OberKC is correct.I missed the then problem. Modifying scenes does not activate them.

Look for the 1011 beside each device in the device tree. My PLM restore took me over 12 hours with 14 battery devices.

In a previous house I had a 30 Watt siren mounted in a cold air duct. When that thing went off you couldn't stay in the house. Nobody could run for the panel fast enough to shut it off. A horn would take some doing though. A big 12v adapter and an I/O Linc should do it. I have 60w 12v adapter for my LED strips that are fairly cheap. In a boathouse that would make your ears bleed.

Many of us disable the Off portion of the MS and never receive the Off signal. This would nullify the need for the 'control is Not Off' line and the else section. Notifying of no motion anymore is done on a timer inside the MS and this same function can be done and better controlled inside ISY programming. A few ways come to mind to only get one notification of motion. Your method looks good to accomplish this also. 1) Use a variable as a flag, set it upon motion, check it when further motion is sensed. If the flag is set then the notification is already sent. A timer program is needed that resets the flag after X time of your choosing. 2) Use a second program that disables the triggering program and then re-enables the triggering program after your selected time. eg: First program If control MS is switched On. AND time is from sunset to sunrise Then run (if) second program Else --- Second program If additional conditions Then disable first program notify you of motion wait x minutes enable first program Else --- Now some of the dangers of this is you are asleep and/or away and you get a notification. What do you do? You have no second opinion of a violation in the boathouse. The webcam could be that second opinion before manual action is taken. I have multiple MS units in different rooms so further movement can determine false or not. You will probably need an RF to Powerline bridge device to send you signal from the MS and that can be done with a LampLinc device. If you comply with that you can use it to turn on lights in the boathouse and act as a scare tactic to help get the intruder out. Flashing would be even better to create some confusion. Noise also helps.

The MS units and the Leak Sensors have different styles of reporting their health. I assume the Door Sensor is the same as the Leak Sensors. MS Units ------------ Have no heartbeat Send a low battery signal when a voltage threshold is crossed Report immediately You have to be monitoring the signal at the time to know. If you do not have a LowBatt node, in ISY, for your MS units they are not linked correctly. FACTORY RESET (always) and start over. Leak Sensors (and door sensors?) -------------------- Have an every 24 hour heartbeat - older units alternate sensing On and Off. Newer units just send On. Do not send a low battery signal - you assume "long time no hear" = lowbatt. You have to be monitoring every signal sent and use a timer to know if the next one is late.

I need to experiment with that one again. I tried that with one of my first units but it seemed to miss action right in front of it. I always have trouble with the one in my MBR as it sees me walk past in the hallway and triggers unnecessarily. Too bad that wasn't on the remote setting options.

As per LeeG above. IOW: ISY does not know the actual status of anything...only what the last thing it has been told. Some more recent heartbeats never send Off... just On = "I'm alive!" Some device can be queried forcing them to send their status. Otherwise ISY just remembers on the last signal it saw that changed the device's status. If the heartbeat is always an On signal, ISY thinks the status is always On. Think about this one. If the battery goes dead, you didn't expect it to send a signal telling anybody that, did you? I know MS units are supposed to but many are reporting they never do. I have had three MS batteries go dead without a peep, now.

Most of my Heath -Zenith motion sensors lights are on for every snow storm. Every brand I have ever had does this. I doubt they detect heat but rather iR spectrum light. The better units have two sensors and detect differential changes. The cheap ones just detect ambient light changes due to only having one sensor. The sensor may be composed of two sensors on some. The Insteon units seem fairly stable and do not false much, that I have seen. The X10 units will trigger with ambient lighting changes, car lights passing, etc.

Wouldn't swirling wind and/or snow set them off constantly. Weather sets all my other 120vac MS light units off constantly. This would be good to hear from others using Insteon MS units outside.

You have to watch your fonts and their text aspects when you post in this forum. Font attributes seem to initialise randomly. You can click edit, select the text, and then change the size or probably undo the subscript. I can't even make out what you posted on my screen.

Read LeeG's post above. You show them set to 9 minutes.

Use "devices" or "Insteon" dependingv on your f/w version.

Some programs posted did not have the shutoff.

Are you using += ?

Factrory reset them both and do a Restore on them both. It's always worth a try and it's really easy.

I thought it was niggardly using the SwitchLinc somewhere else.

I wouldn't bother doing scenes for that. Just set the levels you want in the programs.

Now take a model 6260 and label the 60 minute button "ON" and label the 10 minute button "Off". There you have DIHA. (Distributed Intelligence Home Automation). I have seen some of these units with more logarithmic scaled times. More like 10,30,60,120 minutes.