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I was all against forced updates but after the bug complaints on old versions comment...now I am undecided. Maybe the usual forced push update load but user time decision when to install. Only danger I see is being half way around the world and an introduced bug shuts me out and there is no remote fix. Been there, done that previously with other problems on ISY Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Yeah..how many times has. ...'that's good enough for now' ... been regretted by people with real life experiences? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

You mean your admin console has On and Off buttons on it? I haven seen those since ISY version 4. I saw them once but they were too small to read. Now I only use temporary programs to see what is on the pulldown menus and try not to look at the device controls. Hey somebody could write a NS with an admin console on it???? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I don't see any brand working with LED bulbs and two wire devices. However there are dummy loads you can wire inside the light fixtures / connection boxes that will likely make them work. If you have a chain of bulbs you could also use one with a small incandescent bulb in the chain.

I think you will find that LED lighting killed all 2-wire smart switch installations. LEDs just cannot leak enough current for the electronics to talk WiFi or any RF or powerline protocol reliably without lighting up the LED bulb.

Amazon has a fabulous air quality monitor. It records and displays air temperature, VOCs, humidity, P)articulate M)atter, and CO. It displays on an Amazon Echo screen when asked to, and via the amazon Alexa app. It would be fantastic to see this written into a NS for ISY. It is very quick to sense anything and sets off my air quality alarm routines within seconds of pushing the bread down to make toast from across my apartment. Hairspray at the other end of the apartment drives it nuts until you open a window for ventilation. I have found no calibration settings for humidity which is typically within 50-60% accurate according to all 15 other sensors I have for humidity.

@MWaremanhad posted some programs he developed to map the results of this onto a graphic chart, all running from internal ISY code, and I had developed some ISY recording techniques from that to shape the graphic charts into better looking displays, along with dynamic file names that refreshed each month. This all seem to have been deleted from the archives now, according to the wiki forum link.

Where I am we end up going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. I would rather be switched to DST all year 'round so that we go to work in the dark but still have a few minutes of light later when we get home. This can be a real problem for people living at the far reaches of their time zone. Friends of ours, in Thunder Bay Ontario, complained about trying to get their kids to sleep, while the sun was still shining on their beds at 10:00 PM each night, using DST. The real answer is to retire and stop going to work at all.

Yeah. Click the ADD button and type the URL in manually. If found it will remember it.

Can't remember if I just powered it back up, loaded the old image back into it, or how it was done now. However, I had just moved and downsized a lot from a large home to an apartment and a lot of HVAC and security functions were not required any more, so I am not a good model to follow. The PLM is the worst problem as it has to totally reconfigured to talk to your ISY994. If you are using a different PLM then every Insteon device has to be factory reset and reconfigured for that PLM. If you have lots of battery devices it can take more than a full day. IOW: I don't recommend it at this point. I would tough it through with your polisy or eISY. If you cannot solve it, then open a ticket with UDI. Michel can log into your box and solve almost any problem. If he can't, it will become a priority for UDI to fix with a new version.

I could put it in the same box with my two ISY994s and keep them company. or Put it with your Apple II computer and monochrome monitor?

My reverse migration back to ISY994 was during the toddler time of polisy when features were non-existent and many more bugs were encountered. Since then I have gone back to polisy and abandoned my 2 ISY994s. Polisy now performs as well as ISY994 did so there would be no point in stepping back again, at this point. My beefs are still existing in both platforms now and minor AFAIK.

Yeah, we are waiting to see what QUebec and New York does about it because if we have a different clock time than them, the world might stop. Geeeshhhh! ...No. You go first then we'll do it... no you, I dare you!... no you....

I would encourage every user to petition their politicians to stop this DST nonsense. Many locations have. Just wait until fall, when your ISY has two 1:30 AMs to deal with in the same night. Then what? What will a program loop that executes every ten minutes do? What about a program that executes at 1:45 AM do? 2:00 AM? This will never be working properly for all program logic.

Oh he's good, but send money to me at .....

Wow! What a text mess. Strange I didn't see that one. Nice attempt to belittle the complaints. Read the thread title. The point was, nobody reads the webpage manual instructions to click the update button, and the instructions are given to the user via the code installed in the IoX, same source as the code that beeps the polISY and eISY, not from some website page. When the code changed to beep six times, the code to tell the user it should beep only 4 times could have been corrected to match. Now this error has been reported a few times for the last few years and yet nothing has been done to correct it. This should have taken less than 5 minutes to correct a piece of text inside IoX and appears to be an error reported many times that has caused a lot of confusion for users attempting to upgrade. If you are going to report errors via a beep count system it needs to be accurate or at least tended to, when bugs are reported. Otherwise, remove the beep system and stop confusing the users and possibly causing more problems. I don't expect a perfect ISY but it gets a little tiring when bugs persist for 20 and 30 releases that are so easily corrected. Cripes, many of the bugs still exist from the upgrade to V5, from V4 (remember 5 years ago?). I have already dumped my polisy once due to so many operational bugs and went back to my ISY994. Looking forward, I have given polisy another chance (code conversion was a bitch) but it may have been a mistake again after many years of "debugging" something that is still less reliable than ISY994 was.

The instruction is in the code and it disagrees with the actual code. It may cause people factory reset their ISYs when it doesn't report as stated in the code. For the 5 .inured it takes to correct this it may avoid days of co fusion from supporting users. This has become quite usual lately as UDI travels down do many new ventures. The trail of poop is starting to become hurdles. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Awesome! That is a huge change from the old Insteon attempting to hide UDI products, in some kind of competitive challenge.

Yup..very iriitating

Update went fine, however none fo the existing non-Zwave bugs have been fixed for the last three years. Previous report Previous previous report

Separate lines with waits between them is more secure and more reliable than scenes. Scenes have no confirmation of signals and therefore no Insteon retries if no response is received. I use a combination of the techniques. For most groupings I use scenes to turn them off, but for middle of the night "if all else fails" I use individual Off lines as you demonstrated. You do need Waits between every second or third line to be 99.99999% successful though. However, having said that, I only have two Insteon controlled lights left. The rest are all WiFi bulbs now so I have very little need for any Insteon scenes any more. My WiFi NRbridge software creates it's own scene control appearance with very little delay between bulb operations. IOW: when I used a lot of Insteon lighting, I used Insteon scenes for human appearance (less popcorn effect) , and individual program lines for all other operations, giving better reliability.

Notifications still do not indicate properly and modulus arithmetic was never implemented properly since decimals were introduced in v5.0.1

Yes. If your devices were set up by any other method be sure to factory reset each device, and start fresh with linking them to your ISY. Then build your scenes from there. ISY will then install the links correctly and be able to manage them later .....and quite well also. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Thanks for your illuminating comments but it seems like my bulbs are all screwed.

lol WiFi bulbs get 1% brightness in any colour. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk