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Usually when Alexa reports she is having trouble, it means she can't contact the mother ship due to WiFi down or somewhere in the chain is broken.

Some people just prefer to clean finger prints off light switches. Now you have to install a dimmer and who is going preset it it every morning and night to the correct levels? "Honest Daddy! I will feed the puppy every day...I promise!"

Good advice. However I found for many by logic, I want the bulbs to go dim by time clock, rather than the sun times (I don't go to bed at 5 PM in the winter) so I make sure not too many are being hit on at the same time.

MY routines quite working yesterday also! This happened a few years ago and amazon was always tight lipped about it, and never got back to me. The problem just went away after about a month last time. I have checked all the data spots all the way through and the problem, again, lies with the routines just not triggering, despite every other data point working from variable to pseudo device in the alexa app. You are not alone.

The MS needs to be in Linking mode or ISY will try and retry many times to write to a device that cannot accept any data....thus...BUSY (That would be the Insteon comm channel via PLM)

I have always used adjust scene for bedroom lamps and others that are not wanted at 100% in the middle of the night. It works well and only hits on the LampLincs twice per day. For other multi-bulb scenes, I use command levels % option for each light, especially where it may be a dynamic constantly changing level. eg. I developed a constant compensation for outdoor sunlight levels, where lights inside changed not only brightness levels, but colour temperature (warm to cool white) of the bulbs, based on time of day. The snag there was using lumen detectors (CAO Tags) that updated frequently and yet ran on batteries that would last for more than a few months. It is nice to turn over in bed some nights, triggering the MS and the lamps only illuminate to about 12%, as low as they will go reliably with a LampLinc and LED bulbs. I can still manually command either lamp to go on 90% vocally and it also disables the MS from setting that lamp back for two hours. ISY rocks.

Although I use preset scenes for some lighting, for variable lighting I do not use Insteon scenes. I just use ISY commands with the level % option, specified by a variable. To change the setting in an Insteon scene requires about 10-15 seconds and can get you caught in the middle of the process, under certain situations. IMHO that is asking for devices needing factory reset frequently after they get messed up. .

Yeah. I don't know why amazon hides those commands at the bottom of the list where nobody can find them. I keep the Windows webpage alexa app around just for that mostly. I don't find it on the mobile android app though. My alexa keeps finding other devices, like my laser printer and trying to flood me with advertising to buy their overpriced ink. Every time I delete the printer from the device list it finds it again and start the advertising cycle again. Not impressed with that one but it makes me replace tone cartridges early, wasting more supplies.

I use a program shift register to record the last three events into a variable. Now when a certain pattern is found and triggers various programs I know which way things went. Each room and device has a designated two digit number based on variable constants dedicated to this, and a few other jobs. Text messages and emails are sent using these variables along with a chart of room/device numbers so the reader can interpret where the action is happening, all from one notification message. IOW: no need for a message from each room or device. One message does it all for each function. I have used the same setup for motion sequence (break-ins), leak detection and other functions where the location in the house is important. The common variable used for each function and multiple rooms also allows one program responses that can handle every room, instead of a separate program for each room x (times) a separate bank of programs for each function. Anybody interested in this I can post my programs that handle this. However using three devices in a series is not without it's occasional failures. I do think using only two devices in a sequence would be much more accurate and successful.

Nice catch! Yeah I forgot about the Else section running when status logic is Anded with a switched control event. A switched control event is always False if it wasn't the trigger for the program's own If secton. Marking my post as such.

You would have to ensure no Insteon links are made between the lamp module and the MS. The MS will need to have options set so that there is very little delay between trigger reports. Send On only. The MS cannot detect direction and this would toggle the lamp on/off only. Use an ISY program like this. xxxxxx XXXXXX xxxxxxx Sorry bad logic removed to avoid future confusion. Thanks to @Goose66

No. That wasn't stated or implied. AFAIK the bios comes on an eprom of some kind. However the BIOS can be upgraded by SSD or downloaded images that UDI has supplied to do just that. PG3 and IoP are not the same firmware as the BIOS firmware.

"New hard drive came with IoP 5.4.4 and PG3." It likely came with the newer BIOS installed. Only the much older polisies came needing an upgrade

Mine is the same after I did the BIOS update. Nothing happens when I click it again though. If the BIOS was the old version newer polyglots wouldn't run. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

My polisy always reports the zwave error but I am told if if have a zwave stick inserted and it finds no zwave devices, ISY will throw an error. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

If you turned off the DHCP reservation you may want to try power cycling your polisy and then look in your router IP assignment list after a few minutes. Your ping shows nobody home at that IP address so assume your polisy has changed IP addresses for some reason. Ethernet ports are all suppose to respond to a ping signal with a pong response. Nothing did. Why do you have port forwarding on?

polisy boxes can take several minutes to become quiescent with an IP address and appear on a router sometimes. Have you tried pinging the polisy address on your LAN?

I don't find any units that can compare with the specs and price of the unit @Goose66 linked, even for double that price. It seems like a very versatile unit and would not even require the regular power supply for ISY or polisy.

Nice! Here it is in Canada amazon.ca, since it states "Not available" https://www.amazon.ca/TalentCell-Uninterrupted-27000mAh-Wireless-Smartphone/dp/B07WLD32RP/ref=sr_1_5?crid=11GNGVCYJUJMA&keywords=TalentCell+Mini+UPS+Uninterrupted+Power+Supply+27000mAh&qid=1666870757&sprefix=talentcell+mini+ups+uninterrupted+power+supply+27000mah%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-5

Without State variable type usage the program would never trigger. With State variable type usage the program would have triggered, set the variable to 255, re-triggered the program and ran else due to >= 1. (Caused it's own event) However your Then section most likely would have been completed and worked. There are times where lines can get executed ahead of other lines when they are called in different programs.

Too much complication for the usual and typical triggered light timer. A condensed version if Motion is switched on Then turn on light Wait 2 minutes turn off light Else turn off light...this handles some rare cases that other lines in if cause the Wait to be cancelled mis time out. When an if condition is triggered it causes the program to start over. 2 minutes can last forever. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Insteon devices do not use Matter.

Yes. I guess the label was different. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

That would be @kclenden

Have to agree. Insteon would not be a fast enough protocol to cause fast flickering in even one device...slow blinking on and off...sure.