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They can be used to control dimmers but are not dimmers themselves and therefore have no usage for more LEDs to indicate levels. IOW: They can send the dimmer signals but cannot receive them.

Careful depending on Alexa for timers. I had one fail, not reporting a timer done, and burnt the crap out of my baking venture. Don't know why or how but I know the timer was set, and it has never done it since, that I know of. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

In actuality Amazon is bending the truth somewhat on their whining. The thing they forgot is the $10 per month they get out of every shopper in the household that subscribes to Prime. While Prime members get some free videos and some free music on their Alexa boxes it seems they forgot to attribute all those funds towards the Alexa profits. Amazon's true colours had to come out sooner or later and I hope we don't see a collapse only to find they produced another product that requires a monthly subscription. Of course that may avoid the class action suit from people that bought the promised for a one time fixed fee. Oh Wait! I bought about 10 of them.

I guess the handwriting was on the wall as it is for every product that requires a continuous service and yet the device is sold without any subscription fees. This reminds me of the fitness and martial art gyms that used the "Buy two years and get a lifetime membership" sales technique to get their initial equipment setup funds. Eventually nobody is paying any fees and the gym goes belly-up. ** sigh ** too bad. Regardless, I will never buy something verbally on Alexa or GH. I find it bad enough buying products via a simple photo and half baked description from an online vendor that only learned English a year ago. At times, I am convinced they fake bad English translation in order to make the poor product descriptions acceptable to the gullible buyer. Not likely I will ever buy things on verbal command. I just don't see the advantage of it and still distrust the whole system too much.

Unplug the Zwave dongle and power cycle your ISY. That should prove if the dongle is dragging your system down with it.

I had mine bug-out on my Dell laptop. It was a PITA for a few months and I always had to use workarounds. Support documents always told me to go into the BIOS and enable it but the BIOS had no recollection of it. In the end, I think the only thing that could be done was to open up the laptop, disconnect the battery, and short out the BIOS backup battery terminals. Suddenly the BIOS woke and knew about the chip/function again and all was right in the world again. I used that opportunity to replace the laptop battery as well.

The size exceeds the capabiliy of zip program's size capabilities. The backup file is double zipped so you have to do it twice. Don't know why somebody would do that, because the second compression doesn't lose one byte. Use zip7 for larger files. However ISY was always capable. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I know of a company that just got hit with ransomware and refused, costing them weeks of shutdown and months of cleaning it up maintenance that uses Windows PCs. It kept some specialists and the FBI and RCMP people busy for months. They basically had to scrap every computer (guessing about 50 desktops and a few servers) and start over with a new system as it was spreading repeatedly. Protected folders didn't help them any. Agreed the virus has to be more complex. It just means the trojan horses just have to attack the O/S security and not the apps at first. If the O/S can access the folders with software then the viruses can as well.

You would need to go to a hardwired system and rip out half your walls to install it. The signals need to between devices somehow. The mediums are very few Rf, powerline, or hardwired. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Read more threads here. Insteon is partially back, under new ownership, that listens to users. They also report progress of their rebuilding the company and product lines.

Thanks everybody for the help. It seems my problem is likely the 2FA settings. I have avoided that as much as possible and never turned them. That was likely the time when they forced it on users and my notifications stopped functioning. It never made sense to me to have a password sent to the same device that my account is being hacked from, and it is a PITA. I have a few services that request a 2FA password every time I login. I then have to run to get another device (my cell phone) just to access websites from my laptop. I have dumped most of the services requiring that nonsense, and gone elsewhere. I will think some more about this. I assume once google 2FA is enabled there is no going back again with google.com? Google always reports I am accessing the account from my cell phone, while really on my laptop so I distrust the method, afraid I will lose everything.

Betamax was terrible if you put it in a VHS machine though. No wonder people don't buy it anymore. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I have not been able to get my gmail account working for years now, and switched to the default (UDI) However, text messages now are getting assigned different numeric suffixes to every SMS and appears as multiple account sources making it a PITA to cleanup. Is it possible for you to send me a screenshot of your gmail setup, possibly blocking any credential password information? gMail formerly worked for me here but stopped a few years ago. I would like to return to gMail. IIRC I also used my ISPs freebie email address and server but they never used any security as I was on a dedicated line and they could tell my source anyway. Is this possibly a same account to same account problem that is being filtered? UPDATE Despite trying every combination of TLS on/off with matching ports 587/465, user name/filled with format observed, various gmail accounts with proven passwords, pop enables and not blocking on any account, account name including/not-including '@gmail.com', always leaving edited line and clicking "Save" the test email has never worked for me in the last few years. Port 587 with TLS returns an immediate [[Error--1]] = not documented in wiki. Port 465 without TLS returns same erro after 8000 sec timeout. After years of attempting this I concluded this was always just a bug in ISY software and gave up, going back to the default but the new various account names are a PITA and would like to make another email server work.

I run several other pieces of python software on my polisy along with IoP and Ployglot v3. They talk to each other via Ethernet/localhost TCP/IP as if they were located in different boxes, just fine. I have also run ISY994 with a RPi 3, polisy with a RPi3, polisy with itself, polisy with another polisy for my NRbrdge software. Any quirks found were my own bugs. All hardware configurations functioned quite well except where my software bugs flooded the Ethernet ports.

All the best to you Asbril, and American brothers and sisters!

...and UD has made some arrangements there also. I see none of it on the aartech.ca website yet but I am sure it will come. Likely a little too late for me as I am downsizing a lot and have boxes of things I will likely never get to use again. I have run out of receptacles. Maybe Insteon will put out a wireless receptacle?

The time boxes are not greyed out. The ellipses are shown when the characters are perceived to take up more space than the text box sizes will allow. As @MrBill posted above, change your font size, change your Windows screen magnification factor, or just ignore it and just use the pulldown menus anyway. They still work the same.

It depends which machine you put it in.

Get some matching Christmas paper for both and get on with it.

FYI:Mine installed and initialised without any problems. I haven't found any changes from v5.4.4 yet though. However is did cause me to spell some words funny.

shhhhhh.... it's a secret upgrade that reports back without your knowledge. oooops! Did I say that outloud? I installed it also. I didn't see any of my bugs I have been watching so I was also looking for a "review" thread. I wasn't sure whether I could start one.

After being very apprehensive about another O/S upgrade, in desperation I gave in and went to Win11. Best thing I have done. Basically it is the same old Win10 but organised into better groupings of thinking. However, I have always hated this "protected folder" crap they try to pass off as virus protection. It's my system and my computer. I don't need to log-in or give permission to myself to operate it. That doesn't really change between Win7, 10 & 11.

You read funny. I doubt I have ever dissed UD. I was just pointing out that the ones thinking they will run to a $30 RPi with HomAss are a few years behind the times Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Not for Canada unfortunately. It would likely be cheaper for Insteon to just produce and ship a new one than to pay shipping both ways plus $50 to repair. Sounds like about the $120 CAD mark by the time it's done. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Tried to buy a RPi 4 complete system lately? I can buy a whole desktop system for that price and pick it up in the store today. I don't want to hear about old parts people have hanging around to feed a system that hangs on its wires and must be mounted vertically so it doesn't act strangely in the summer. Complete system to compare apples with apples. Don't forget a power switch. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk