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I use a setting of about 50-75 for mine. A few report dark in shaded rooms quite early and the count of them is useful on very un-sunny days to activate programs based on number that reported darkness as an analogue value.

For the four-way switching circuit, only the switch/dimmer wired to the flood lights will electrically control the lights and the other two units will not have loads on them, only sending Insteon commands to the one with the light load on it. The wiring will have to be sorted out and some capped off. All switches/dimmers will require a neutral connection and act as if they were in parallel controlling the light after the logic is set up. Take several pictures inside each box from different angles showing the entrance of each cable (under the clamp), wire colours and what connections each one goes to BEFORE starting disconnections. Label them definitively on your computer.

Some basics with these MS units. - Battery operated devices do not generally respond to queries from ISY unless the placed in "Linking" mode by usage of the button inside. - a query will update the battery low input. Only the LowBatt will respond to a query when not in "linking mode". Right click on the Low Battery node and select "query". - it is popular practice to disable the MS from sending the Off command and let ISY do the Off timing - darkness/lightness responses takes about 5 minutes to test after changing the light density - Night only mode means do not send out motion detected during light times. This will disable sensing motion during the day and not allow other programming ideas to recognise occupancy of the house. - Switch 5 on means the hardware controls are now inactive and settings are all in the ISY software options (after linking mode is established by the button long pressed). Not entering "linking mode" first will give you a multitude of errors. - In your ISY program (if using it for time control) you should have a time off timer in the "Then" section and a 'Control" in your "If" section. The "Control" usage insures that every time the MS sends an "On" the then section will start again retriggering the "Then" Wait timer to start over. - If you created a scene, the MS must be in linking mode to receive the update. More complex programming will then be needed to intervene with the direct link you have established between the MS and the light switch to control brightness and time of day response. Some of my LEDs are just left to come on during the day as the energy used is so insignificant. There is a way but more complex than if you didn't create a scene (and a direct link = ISY independent) between your MS and light control and just let ISY handle the "On" decisions. - If the "As motion is sensed" is not checked the MS will go to sleep for several minutes each time motion is sensed an will confuse your setup process thinking. Make sure it is checked, especially if you want a 30 second time off otherwise motion will not retrigger the Wait timer and the light will be off most of time while you are moving in front of it. I recommend a longer Off time off so motion is detected more easily within your time selection. The blinking on and off becomes annoying quickly. 1-2 minutes works well for me in all rooms.

Nice! It would seem I will need to get a serious RPi unit to be a slave to my ISY to get these values accessible to programs at lest until v5 arrives in 2018.

My DDNS service was totally free also, (with the purchase of their router.)

The variable needed (thus this request) is not available and is not likely to become available from the flavour here. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/13900-use-of-sysextip-variable-in-notifications/page-2

Odd Days - [ID 00A3][Parent 0001] If Time is 12:01:00AM on 2015/06/01 Or Time is 12:01:00AM on 2015/08/01 Or Time is 12:01:00AM on 2015/09/01 Or Time is 12:01:00AM on 2015/11/01 Then - reset the date timer code to 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Something like this could get you to next year using a daily incremented counter. The months after the ones with 31 days can be identified using the above filters.

Yes my initialisation sends out an SMS and an email telling me a reboot has occurred and the last valid time known so I know how long the power was off. That can determine different courses of action. I also get a report of water leeks, temperature in three different places in two buildings, wind speed and gusts and how many motions were detected since midnight as well as yesterday's total. But **sigh** the mobile apps do not allow viewing the hidden address info with email or SMS. If the external IP address displayed in ISY could be used as a parameter this would be easy. Perhaps the answer is an Android app that displays header detailed info.

Are you talking "Hotmail" app or "Hotmail" mail service provider? I can see complete header information on PC apps but not on two mobile apps I use for mail. Addendum: In Thunderbird and MS mail apps you can "View Source" which will show all header info containing IP addresses etc. but on my two Android email apps I could not find a method to view this information. I spent a few hours on it figuring their is usually some hidden menu to no avail.

I used the "free" DDNS service provided by Netgear with my router through No-IP.com right up until I went away this winter. Suddenly they began sending me update renewal notices like spam every week, that I ignored. Next thing I know my DDNS stopped working. I emailed my ISP explaining this and they sent me my latest IP address, which they stated didn't change in the latest power failure we had at home. hmmmm... was on the system backup so router shouldn't have rebooted and re-DCHPed. That must have worked again but I didn't have my original external IP address because all my apps were set up to use a DDNS service that failed me when I needed it.. Meanwhile back at home I investigate the DDNS service and my URL had now been changed from my_nickname.mynetgear.com to my_last_name.mynetgear.com. WTF was that? Currently, in the last month, they have cut off my service and I doubt I want to continue the continuous spamming and recertification every month that they have recently added to the requirements of their supplied free service with the purchase of a Netgear router. WiFi access was very expensive and time limited in my location at the time. Sure would be nice if ISY could send you your external IP address on command and eliminate all this nonsense. Seems the gmail and the Samsung mail app will not disclose full header information to access this info for an Android phone, either, so that technique didn't help me there, unfortunately.

Ditto. I am running 4.2.18 and have never seen it before until yesterday. Interesting.

I have found many Insteon devices do really crazy things from the factory unless you factory reset them, especially the MS units. Good advice.

Unlink the MS from the middle switch. Insteon devices do not have to be linked to repeat signals. This a native feature of most Insteon units as oberkc stated above. Battery units usually do not repeat signals. I would enable the turn-off feature in the problem MS so you can test for signal success using ISY and a laptop running a monitor like admin console. After establishing reliability reset the MS to no Off, again, as most do. Insteon MS units work better when a device responds directly. They tend to repeat sending motion detection many times until something acknowledges. I find it bogs the response of ISY down by Insteon congestion. I have 9 MS units. They are too slow through programs except for the Off timing cycle where milliseconds don't matter. Edit: corrected credited editor

Maybe a Nazi province???? I don't want to have to carry a weapon!

You should be able to just restore your latest backup from the old unit into the new unit. Did you contact support at UDI? They should have instructed you in the process. We don't hear about many defective ISY devices here.

Do all Roombas have iR reception? Mine never came with any remote unit or is the iR codes based on the "finding home" system?

Yup, your insurance company has to give you thirty days of notice of termination in my country. Make a claim and they can turn into rabid dogs though. I hate shopping for insurance policies and I have had it done to me. Door locks . I don't need them but there have been a few times where it may have been handy to change a combination. OCD joke? IN a survey of 10,000 people watching my lights follow them around the house, 9,287 rolled their eyes to a recording cam when they thought I could not see them. I have spent $5283 dollars on HA equipment to turn off lights and not waste energy money. The LED bulbs alone, left on 24/7, could cost me over $88 in excess energy consumption over the course of my lifetime. Now it is going to cost more money to rewrite my Last Will and Testament to include this equipment.

No. I found and suspect about a 1.5 degree report limit. Try to position your sensor more into the hot water supply stream to make your sensing act more like the old mechanical thermostat with a "predictor". This was a heater element that came on when the heat was on and attempted to shut the furnace off before the wave of heat finally got to the thermostat. This was an attempt to eliminate the highs and lows in your heating cycles. The readings will not change but if you are feeling the extremes the above may work for you to help smooth out the temperature fluctuations.

I can understand why people would want to close their garage door or at least be notified of it left open and I understand the risks involved without site of the opening. I have never really understood people wanting to remote open their garage doors or unlock their passage doors remotely. The same view problem comes to mind for differing reasons though. I don't carry any car keys or house keys and I can have my garage door open any time when I am within viewing distance with a little gadget they give you with garage door openers that is hooked onto my vehicle's sunvisor. My passage doors open with a simple 4-8 digit password or a temporary password I give to my neighbours if and when the need comes. I am sure if my home was burglarised and my insurance company discovered I left my doors unlocked and my garage door wide open that would be the end of any further insurance coverage. I may have trouble making a claim for a break-in and the police would not even bother looking for somebody logically invited in. We can get carried away with the "cool" gadgetry though. Most people think all the HA is just an expensive OCD joke anyway and save their money for cruises and other toys. When my kids come to stay with us the first thing they always do is find their assigned bedroom LampLinc and unplug it so the MS cannot turn it on in the middle of the night should they stand up. They are all techies, one multi-millionaire from it, but wouldn't even leave a Hub plugged in after trying it for a month.

v5 should be able to fix this. If $systime.minute >= 0 then do code else --

My belief is that some handshaking may not be functioning correctly. There appears to be handshaking problems between MS units and the PLM or with the Insteon protocol, in general. Here were some event recordings from an MS unit that was tying my system up for long periods of time. I don't pretend to understand it anymore or ever but it would seem that MS units not in scenes never get their signals acknowledged and keep retrying, jamming up the Insteon traffic. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/14219-motion-sensors-2842-222-and-retries/ Also, I have found that some handshaking between the PLM and ISY may be missing. This is exampled by sending X10 codes and Insteon signals in sequence to find that some are just not ever transmitted. Since putting Waits behind every X10 command things work better. Why does an ALL ON command even exist in Insteon? Perhaps a carry-over from X10?

That was probably the a scene I deleted from the ISY on first running and haven't seen it since. I have also tried many times to rid myself of some ADR thing that consumes space but with no success. Why would one scene become a problem being randomly initiated?

Where is the "All-On" command in the ISY994i? This may have been handy for use in some programs.

When power resumes the bulbs may send out their statuses before the ISY has booted and initialised. A query would definitely be necessary as well as a reboot of ISY detector. One programme I have always installed in HA systems is an "all_devices_off" at about 4am. That way no matter what the cause lights get killed each day and all statuses are assumed to be known. This was particularly important in X10 HA, which I still use a few. With LED bulbs the important of energy savings, with lamps, isn't so important anymore, though.

What is the dual-brite signal? My MS has an AC output connection that lights up whatever load you connect to it. The dim output is the same connection with some method of reducing the effective average voltage.