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I use all dimmers and no switches for my lighting. I use many LED bulbs and always watch for dimming capability when I purchase them. I do have a few non-dimmable CFL bulbs on Insteon Dimmers and I just don't dim them, using Fast On/Off or only 100% and Off. They have never been a problem for me. Interesting when two wire wave chopping dimmers are used it is very difficult to trigger a triac right at zero crossing. For a three wire device having it's own constantly charged power supply zero-crossing switching is quite possible and common on specialty dimming circuits. Has anybody actually scoped an Insteon Dimmer to see if a piece of the waveform is missing at zero crossings? Insteon devices rely heavily on zero-crossing for timing. I have never noticed the lack of full brilliance on any bulbs on Insteon devices as is seen with more passive dimming devices. OTOH, I mostly use CFL and LED bulbs that could hide that phenomenon due to waveform-peak grabbing power supplies anyway.

Why hack the Insteon signals when you can hack the ISY for a lot more fun? Imagine the cool programs you could set up for a joke! Check the thumbnail pic. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/12599-anonymous-hackedattacked-isy/?hl=hacked

Dang! I want it now!! People spend oodles of time attempting to get analogue values into ISY. Autellis, RPi and WebControl, using 1wire sensors, are the common ways to get analogues in.

Ditto on that. I owned two Wink Hubs for a few days and I couldn't make them do anything Talking to their tech support the thing would only interface to other hubs via WiFi and never to any devices at that time despite their claim to multiple hardware interfaces. They went back for the refund. Completely useless, in my world, at that time. Be nice to see more on these advances in action and how they are accomplished.

Thanks Yeah it will be more complicated than that. This fan has no pullchains and the switching is all done in the light junction box hanging below the fan motor. The wall control sending unit is a PITA with it's tiny rubber pushbutton to control the light so we hardly ever use it. I have an MS linked to a bedside lamp that suffices for most of our bedroom traffic and reading using manual overrides from a MiniRemote. Trouble with the Insteon smart HA thing is selling the house later. Now I would have to replace all the original equipment.

Awesome! I agree about the HA not just being remote control. See my post above. This is what I want to accomplish as well. Occupancy detection comes into play as a factor also. Not just your dumb switch anymore.

This seems confusing. Doesn't the pullchain switch get removed from the box, not only to replace with the fanlinc control unit, but also to make enough room in these cramped wiring boxes? I am thinking of installing a fanlinc in my Honeywell ceiling fan but it currently has some fancy two wire (hot and neutral only) method of controlling the lights, with dimming, and the fan speed. Would be nice to know what protocol this things uses. It comes with a thermostat inside the wallswitch control unit but inside a wall box, but with dimming electronics heat, is not a good place for a temperature sensor. I have a 2441ZTH just waiting to be enslaved for graduated smart fan speed control.

I would be afraid that somebody would pull too hard out of frustration maybe and fracture the glass. Can they not be just stored above the glass globe and not dropped through at all or the pullchain switch bypassed?

I am not sure how the Elk event triggers work in ISY but give this a try. If From 10:30:00PM To 5:00:00AM (next day) AND { Elk Zone 'Family-Motion' is Violated OR other zone is Violated } AND { <----Elk triggers may not require this section. Elk Zone 'Family-Motion' is not Violated <----disables 'reminder' if motion starts again. AND other zone is not Violated } Then Wait 30 minutes Enable program 'reminder' Else Disable program 'reminder' Program 'Reminder' (disabled) If Elk Area '1' 'Armed State' is Disarmed Then Repeat Every 30 minutes Set Elk Speak Word 'Alarm' Set Elk Speak Word 'Is_disarmed' Else --

Is the ++ significant on the Notepad name? When I open the logs in Notepad I get no newline and everything is run-on smashed together. If I use Wordpad it seems to handle it better but with two newline chars for each line.

Your reference to post #6 states "Switch box #1 (slave): ..... Switch box #2 (master):" as the only form of identification. There is no switchbox #1 established that is consistent. Now you are changing the master and slave. It would seem this has already confused the OP and wiring changes were not as you instructed. Again. The diagram should be labelled with references. Best of luck.

Once he changes his wiring the master and slave are switched. We have to assume the switch reference number are not.. The diagram should be labelled so both talk the same language. I can already see some confusion following your instructions.

Label the switches as it seems your Switch#1 may be Stu's Switch #2 in the discussion.

Switches #1 and 32 were never identified in text or on the drawing. Perhaps that caused some confusion of wiring changes?

The humidity should not be fluctuating that fast with bobble. Humidity sensors never seem to respond that fast, especially up and down repeatedly. This sounds like a problem with the thermostats. What is your power supply to it?

If I allow my Admin Console to slip into background processing I cannot trust the Admin Console anymore to show updated variable and/or program statuses. I can usually change program code and write it to ISY no problem but updates usually suffer and foils my debugging sleuthing. There is no indication of this except things do not seam to function properly inside the Admin Console. Exiting and rebooting the Admin Console always fixes the problem until I run another task without closing the Admin Console again.

I can act as a heartbeat for "alive" detections but in my mind it should be quite regular, not erratic timing.

The only way I can see this happening is if you stop the program from running. Then you already know it is NOT active. Perhaps you are trying to establish intent of the program before disabling it and halting it. Then you can resume the same process. . Is this correct? As Lee suggested this would require a variable flag... an "I was going to" flag. You had stated you set a variable upon completion of a possibly halted program. Can you not just use that variable to see if the program finished before rendering it inactive?

I still use some x10 devices also but can't wait to get rid of them finally. In applications where they operate dynamically with motion or other fast action sequences they can tie my ISY/PLM up for up to 60 seconds. For low action background devices they work just fine. eg. China cabinet light, Christmas tree lights. Now if Insteon would just produce a decent beeper or doorbell chime for dryer done and/or garage door open indicators I wouldn't have these X10 problems.

Well I did mean just devices but since you raised it....

Some Leak sensors send On and then Off alternatively for a heartbeat while apparently some newer units only repeatedly send On. If you check the status of an older unit it could be in any state and quite normal.

This seems rather odd that want to disable a folder containing a program and yet have the program continue to run. You program snapshot is rather small text and low res, to be readable, for me so I don't understand why you are trying to do this. Maybe a clearer explanation of what you are trying to do. We got some sharp ones here. On the surface it would seem if you want the timer to finish you must not disable it's folder, or take the program out of the folder., or create another program, out of the folder, to do the job. When you re-enable the folder the timers inside the programs are not relevant anyway. You probably need to rethink your logic somewhat and find another way to accomplish your mission (should you choose it.) If what I think you want to accomplish is have any timers in the folder complete before disabling further triggers in the programs. This could be done with folder logic looking at all the programs statuses inside. So that my program statuses look nice for Mobilinc and Admin Console I often use an Else call at the end of each Then section. If whatever Then do something Wait 1 second Run 'This program' (else) Else ----- You could also have each program disable itself as a last line in each. You can detect a program is true and also detect how long since the program was last run but IIRC not if it is running currently.

Insteon. I have read other forums and listened to the complaints and used X10 since the 70s and Insteon has them all beat except for the lack of device variety.

Do you have other Insteon devices that were not on? Also, view your event logs in level 3 after operating these in question several times and compare the "hops left" count. Try the same after operating at the midnight usual time and see if you get variances. This usually indicates comm problems.

The program is halted and disabled.