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I think Canada may be different. I have experience many cases of video streaming choked down to a a few hundred Kbps where the same streams to US users, simultaneously, has been full 2-3Mbps. Netflix streams will not cross the border. It seems mostly data with entertainment content. As I posted GV was not available until May 2020 to Canadians, google or gov. control? I don't know. Likely Google by Canadian gov. order? On that note, is your NetFlix starting to insert advertising in your streams? Ours is. With phone services, Canadians cannot get a US cell service subscription and we cannot use a US bank, although many are starting proxy phone and bank services that look like US accounts.

Looks like GV just became available to Canada in 2020 https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/05/google-voice-now-generally-available-in-canada.html Things may be just an IP address but Google and other Internet snoop companies know exactly where you are by your IP address and cut many services off across the border. Try sending some government docs to Russia and see what happens. It's more than just an IP address. It has locations affiliated with it. Sure would be nice to get NetFlix in Canad that USA people get. Ours is chopped down and restricted content. I used gmail text converter for many years until it stopped working and then switched to the default UD servers. However the UD servers started creating random email addresses so that every message now comes from a completely different source and must be deleted from as many different accounts as text messages. This has been a real PITA, flooding my cell phone account listings. I have tried every combination of setup I can figure with the gmail servers again with no luck. I have to assume they just won't allow it in Canada since about the last 3-4 years now. It seems every method of communication is being ruined by spammers and nobody wants or can do anything about it. Now, nobody will even answer their phone if it comes from a number not in their personal directory. SMS is one of the last mediums that doesn't report back to the sender and I now see Apple is ruining that also now.

WE have that across the street in the park each year instead of fireworks (yeah, millenial eco smoke nonsense). I never thought to take my RF frequency detector out and see if it detects any signals. Big difference? Free air and no concrete, drywall or structure in between. As a guess I would say modified WiFi of some kind, same as all the new home automation protocols.

I don't think Google Voice was ever permitted or launched in Canada, if that what GV means.

I haven't been able to make gmail work with any ISY for the last 4 years. Sure would like to get SMS working with ISY again without a random address generated each send that takes several minutes to scour out of your message list every time. Any hints there also? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

WiFi is likely the most dependable protocol in usage today. It offers so many features and dependability the major motor companies are including it in their designs. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Thanks! However I cannot read the small print no matter how I magnify it.

From that I have to conclude the strips have individually addressable LED (chunks or sections). How does ISY deal with that? Obviously ISY wouldn't be able to program individual sections, but possibly preset patterns?

The included video showed a lot more detail. The box and photos show no evidence of anything except the strips. From the video I se some scanning of patterns. Is that another model or the ones you are using? The light filling in from one end is a pretty cool effect. Directional instructions could be indicated to users and so much more.

I notice they purposely try to avoid showing or mentioning the controller box and power supply for these LED strips. How large are they and do they require any custom wiring? I assume they are all just plug-in to each other. Can you post pictures of the controller and PSU along with wiring?

Loose neutral connections one of the most common service calls for electrical utility service trucks. We got about 5-10 per week. Many problems at the aluminum to copper wiring connections exposed to weather outside the homes.

Oh yeah. Does your PV system have a flip over when the grid fails? Does it disconnect from co-generating when the grid fails? I can't imagine any other way you could have it set up so in either case you have a relay/contactor with a fail-safe contact that will either close or open and sitting there 24x7 and not doing much collects dust without ever "wiping". Good contact design makes contact metals touch before the armature is fully pulled into the armature/coil. Now when the last bit of motion is happening, the contact either rolls across the surface of the flat metal surface or gets dragged a bit, either way, "wiping" the dust and/or oxide off the electrical connection surfaces. When they sit idle for months and years without occasional wiping they can accumulate dust etc. and that can burn when seeig an electrical arc and now you have high resistance carbon between your contacts. AS a wild shot in the dark can you turn breakers on and off to cause the system to operate whichever way it is set up? Don't do it too rapidly but several times. Then see if this improves.

Correct but.... 240 volt loads are not connected, and cannot affect, the Neutral. Yes, with a bad neutral, the two 120 voltages can vary up and down, float between 0 and 240 volts (load dependent) but loads can only affect voltages and lines they are connected to. The bright flashes are caused by 120 volt loads on the opposite phase / leg causing the neutral to be "off-centre". I always think of it as two ridgid but bendy posts, each with spring to the centre (neutral). Too much pull on the common centre point moves the centre point over towards one post. Now one is shorter (low voltage) and one is longer (higher voltage). With a good neutral connection the springs are more reinforced and ridgid. Of course the ground wiring helps the rigidity and complicates finding it when the neutral is intermittent or missing. Has it rained lately? Then along came plastic plumbing and water meter techs disconnecting the jumper around the plastic meters.

Nonsense. A 120 volt bulb is connected to the neutral and could cause brightening. A 240 volt load is not connected to the neutral and does not involve the neutral connection or capability. Brightening only happens when a load connected to neutral and the opposite phase is applied.

Actually it is the opposite of that. When a 240 load is applied, it will not affect a loose neutral. If a loose phase is happening the 240 load will reduce the voltage across one or both phases and lights will dim but never brighten. With a bad neutral 240 volt loads are not affected, only the 120 volt loads. 120 volt loads can cause the other phase conductor to increase voltage as the bad neutral cannot maintain it's voltage position in the centre (split) of the 240 volt. The result and fix is the same, regardless. Your electrical supply company needs to be alerted to investigate this. It may end up being your problem, depending where the onus is divided. Ours was always at the meter base and the wiring from the meter base to the main switch and panel was the customer's problem. Some nice utility worker may follow up and do you a favour, in that case. Otherwise it will be an electrician call and $$$.

I hope that isn't real! That would indicate the same old stupid Insteon mentality again for the third time. Please tell me it isn't real. UPDATE. I just attempted to order the same TriggerLinc and came up with two shipping options. $171 USD and $180 USD for Fedex shipping. Well, so far, I don't see any bright future there and hope this is some initial error that will be corrected in their maturity as a new company.

That would be too bad for aartech.ca since they were a major supporter of Insteon in Canada, offering guarantees that (old) Insteon wouldn't honour. The progress intent is awesome but the outcome may be a disaster for their Canadian market considering the huge shipping costs charged to cross the border with product. Usually, crossing the border in bulk at much reduced prices is very beneficial to this process. They may price themselves out of the Canadian market without some vice to get them here, without ridiculous price hikes and poor warranty support.

I'm going hard too! Damn! where did the stroke off font go here?

Sounds like the same old "loose neutral" on the electrical feed from the street transformer. LEDs indicate these problems better than incandescents ever did.

I have about 10 Insteon Leak Sensors that U have no need for any more. If interested PM me.

$iMotionCount =+ 1 Probably would be listed as $iMotionCount += 1

Yeah, It seems rather odd that the webpage alexa app will not allow so many things for setup, and yet under the devices you can individually disable/delete items and also discover new items...and without the silly verbal reminders and warning, so annoying. No I don't have a Hue Hub,..... and why only a reminder bout a Hue Hub over the other few hundred brands? Oh yeah a warning! If you delete all your ISY devices for longer than a few seconds you will need to re-define and re-enable all your Routines inside the mobile Alexa app again.

Alexa doesn't like when you cancel things in ISY Portal, and sometimes disables things it thinks do not exist anymore. AI (guessing) at it's finest.

It is intentional then and I didn't find a bug to report. Thanks. Mentally fixed here. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

This must be new to me also. Did you mean IoP? I have never heard of logging in to polisy via ISY finder. My URL is http://192.168.0.165:3000/dashboard I never use https.