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On eBay almost every bulb is advertised a CREE now. The white LEDs used are made by Cree but the bulbs are made by every Tom's Dick that's Harry.

Do you factory reset every device before linking it into your system?

Nice. Keep in mind the "off" times should not overlap with the other light cycles or you may get unexpected "Off" times. This can be a gottcha' for random time®s especially.

The only port forwarding I have is in my router. A router has a firewall that doesn't let anything through that isn't initiated inside, and by, my house internal LAN equipment. Port forwarding is a feature, in a router, that allows certain data through when it's initiated externally from the Internet side . So if my ISY has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.0.28 by my router (DHCP) and my router has been assigned an IP address of 123.456.7.89 on the Internet by my ISP (DHCP) then my port forwarding may look something like this. convert external IP 123.456.7.89 on port 8099 (chosen arbitrarily by you) to internal 192.168.0.28 port 80 (chosen inside ISY) This will allow external browsers (and Admin Console, Mobilinc) traffic using the URL http://123.456.7.89:8099'>http://123.456.7.89:8099 to be converted by your router and dumped on your LAN as http://192.168.0.28:80 and get through to your ISY. This all works very well while your IP loaned to you by your ISP doesn't change. Usually when there is a power outage your IP address is re-issued and now your external software is lost, doesn't know it's way home, and cannot connect to your new external IP address. In comes the DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Service). Most newer routers support DDNS with built in firmware that keeps a cloud service notified what IP address it has been assigned externally (by your ISP). Instead of your cell phone talking to http://123.456.7.89:8099 and being lost, it talks to http://www.YourRouterName.noip.com:8099, which keeps track of what IP your router is at dynamically, and just passes the data through to it. My Netgear router comes with a free service to do this. They spammed me a few times at first but it works well. In my case, with my ISP, I could survive without my free cloud DDNS service if my power never failed for more than a few minutes.

Unplug them and find out. Most "surge protectors" do not protect against surges at all by definition. They are mostly spike clippers that short out high voltage spikes at the top of the waveform. These are probably doing nothing behind a filter that should remove most of the them anyway. However, there are some that actually smooth out spikes and glitches with real filtering components and they can be a problem to Insteon signals.

Also note that LeeG's suggestion has nothing in the "Else" section? At 10:29:59PM the "else" is going to execute due to being triggered by the time end and the whole "if" logic evaluating to false. At the end of the "Then" section you can add "run Program_name (else)" if you want the folder icons to show colours reflecting their last Light Bulb control states. The MS will always show "On" after adjusting that setting.

"Insteon Protocol Bible" definition. Besides, which unit would ACK and say the transmission was received OK? I have an "Every Light" scene that contains a few dozen devices. If the operation is very important use an individual command. It could be done but see sentence one.

Sounds like you are doing OK with the whole thing! Bravo! Another tip. Most ballpoint pen ink can cover Great Stuff splotches on blue jeans but have to be redone after several washes each time, I have a few of them. Keep the varsol or paint thinner handy and have a second party check you over immediately after use.

Ouch! With that repair in mind I would have to contemplate cutting a big hole out back to the studs and stick the drill into the wall. That is of course f you have access to a piece of drywall and screws and are good with it. Otherwise slap some glue inside the break and sand after the spackle drying. Repainting will be a gimmie. Use a roller or stipple with the ends of the brush bristles to match the existing paint texture. Stuff the hole with some newspaper to stop draughts from the attic wiring holes.

I have mine connected to a sub-panel also but it is 30 cm (189 uMiles) of wire from the main. I have a two-pole breaker feeding some old X10 signal bridge, in a surface mount box, and then to three surface-mount boxes with receptacles. Plugged in are my PLM, ISY994i, and HomeSeer science experiment/ PV monitor software CPU. Total wire from PLM to phase to phase coupler? 8 inches (ohhhh... 20 Canuckistani cm.)

Some observations: If you have three panels and only three SignaLincs you can only cover one phase of each panel, assuming your panels have both phases of your 120/240 vac system in each panel. If you have that many dual band devices the SignaLincs seem redundant. That and pony panels are usually very close to the main panel so one SignaLinc (or dual band device), on each phase, close to the main panel would be a good central star point for the whole house. A passive signal coupler can be a detriment to an Insteon system as the Insteon signal when passed to the other phase of your service will be out of phase with your active dual band units on that phase and therefore the Insteon signal should be out of phase (in synchro with that 120v phase) and possibly cause subtraction of the signal magnitude. Further study of that theory is in order. Insteon devices have some collision detection, built in, and may avoid that out-of-phase signal situation from happening. That could also be true provided the out of phase Insteon signal is strong enough to trigger the collision detection algorithms in the transmitters. I would check your hop counts in your event log while you activate each device from ISY. Then remove all SignaLincs to see what the effects are and determine whether one, two or three should go back in. Running out of receptacles?

How did you determine the program did not run? Your switch may not be properly linked to the ISY. Did you factory reset the switch before usage?

"An expansion slot which could be utilized to install and support other protocols such as a Zigbee" My bad.

Does this mean that Zigbee is simply a protocol on top of the Zwave frequency?

...and the "is not" will only run the "else" section, containing no program code. But it will terminate any then section running. If ( Control is switched on or Control is switched fast on or Control is switched fade up or Control is switched fade down ) and Control is not switched off

What turns the rear yard light manually? Try this idea on Program 1 -------------- If MS is switched ON Then Set spotlight On Wait xx minutes Set spotlight Off Else -- Program 2 -------------- If MS is switched ON Then Set RearYardLights ON Wait xx minutes Set RearYardLights Off Else -- Program 3 -------------- If ManualSwitch is switched On '*( runs Then) and ManualSwitch is NOT switched Off '* (runs else) Then disable Program 2 Set RearYardLights On Wait 6 hours '* (just in case) run Program 3 (Else) Else Set RearYardLights Off enable Program 2

How far away from the ISY is the MS? If you view the event log in level 3 you can see how many hops the signal has to do. More indicates more devices have to retransmit the signal to get there. My MS to lamps takes from about 1/2 second to 2 seconds (rarely) at times for an X10 MS and an Insteon responder device. Faster for Insteon to Insteon. If I link the two devices together the delay is not noticeable at all but then I cannot interfere with the light response with an ISY program condition. eg. time of day. If you have lot of electrical interference on your system it can take some retries to get there. Does the signal not work at all sometimes? If you post the Event Log on level 3 somebody can analyse it and probably tell you what is taking the delay so you may be able to alleviate that.

You might try uninstalling all remnants of Java and old versions. Reboot the PC and reinstall a fresh d/l version of Java. I believe the Oracle website has cleaners to do this so they may have previously encountered many complaints for the same thing.

We like them a little stiffer Used from the bottom there should be less chance to wander out the side of the drywall cavity. Make sure the attachment points are very secure. They can be really hard to retrieve inside a joist cavity covered in drywall. (closet hole time!) When the Irwin Speedbore gets stuck and you pull back it can come loose easily. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-24-in-Bit-Extension-for-Selfeed-Bits-Auger-Bits-and-Hole-Saws-DISCONTINUED-48-28-4016/100007181 The other way is to get a snap in aftermarket 2x3 electrical box. Cut your hole and drill through your invisible 2x4 from there, using a long extension bit to get the steep angle. Drill your hole up through the bottom 2x4 plate and floor sheeting and then use the "weight on a string" method to dance a weight through both holes from the top. After you get the cable pulled up thread on the receptacle box (tie a knot) and mount it into the drywall hole. Mount your thermostat on the 2x3 box. Some adapter plate may be needed but probably not. You may want to stuff the box with insulation to avoid inside wall draughts affecting the operation.

I assume you have rebooted your computer at some point in there too. I find Java has been acting very strange for the last few months and sometimes that help clear up some of the quirks. Java seems to act up particularly after my computer sleeps. The Admin Console hardly ever works after being left alone for more than 15 minutes. I believe this is mostly some sloppy behaviour introduced in Java in the last 6-8 months. The Java 8 on my Win7 x64 machine seems to behave better most of the time.

You have different ISY firmware for sure. The Java cache and applets needs to be flushed out and the fresh versions of the Admin Console reloaded to match the ISY994i firmware. See the thread on the new firmware announcements (I would link to it but using a new browser and I don't know how to use multiple tabs) In Windows goto the control panel and then select Java and you should see a tab to delete your files and applets, Edit: http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/14136-release-4215-rc5-is-now-available/ There are links there to install new applets etc.

On the 2444ZTH unit (I have two but no wired units) the humidity reading updates on a clock basis. On batteries it updates every 5 minutes and on PS it updates every 1 minute. Silly to pick a secondary humidity value to do that but it acts like a heartbeat to indicate life. The temperature only updates by exception (on changes outside of the set bandwidth allowance from the last value sent). Temprature is NOT queriable unless the 244ZTH is in linking mode. My older firmware unit can be set from the ISY but the newer firmware unit cannot be set from ISY. Yes Insteon has been having problems or they wouldn't keep getting more 10 year olds to change their firmware. Again my experience only applies to the wireless 2441ZTH units. YMMV

No, Network Module not required. The whole thing is set up inside the WC8 board admin console. The instructions are so poorly written in Chinlish that some of them are just wrong and may be completely opposite of what you need to do. Put your ISY IP in the IP address (first column) (no "http://") Put your ISY rest command and variable access address in the get URL (second column) eg. "/rest/vars/set/2/6/" Put your ISY admin console user name and password encrypted with Hash64 method found online. Silly method but it just works that way. When you encrypt this makes sure the format is exactly as shown. "Joe:MyPassword" Now in your PLC code when you do a "WEBSET URL1 RAM5" the ISY variable will suddenly update to whatever is in RAM5. Keep in mind this WC8 board does not support 1wire devices well. If you use longer cables the board may stall PLC code for chunks of time and sometimes reboot. This means you really can't have an initialisation setup if you mind it being run at random intervals. From what I can gather the WC8 shares memory between the 1wire bit-banger interface, the WEBSET commands and a few other processes. When the 1wire has errors or retries everything suffers. After about 8-9 firmware updates to make a DS2438 sensor work (sheepwalk SWE3) I gave up on humidity sensing. The WC8 designer has since removed support of the DS2438 on the newer versions of firmware for the WC8 board.

Did you delete it in the ISY, factory reset the 2441TH, and then re-find and link it in the ISY?

Insteon devices use a completely different network using radio frequencies and powerline codes to connect with fellow Insteon devices in your home. This "Insteon Network" is not related or dependant on your home network (LAN) or the Internet in any way. However, As LeeG stated above, your LAN (home network) handles the communications between the Admin Console and your ISY box.