Everything posted by larryllix
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Insteon product availability
Wow! It appears Insteon has produced a CPR module for the name!!
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BIOS update question
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.
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BIOS update question
"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
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BIOS update question
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
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Polisy - Support thread for: PG3 v3.1.6 - v3.1.16 (December 9, 2022)
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
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My Polisy is behaving like a brick
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?
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My Polisy is behaving like a brick
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?
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E12 LED 40w equivalent candelabra bulb, no flicker with Insteon dimmers
I find all brands of bulbs have good and bad. I always had good luck with Philips bulbs, years back, and bought dozens for my new home, but they were always more expensive. I had really crap bulbs with their first run of Hue bulbs, and terrible luck with two batches of Warm Glow bulbs and now Philips is being faded out from the shelves in Home Depot Canada. The Warm and Glow ones flickered just above, and wouldn't produce any light under about 40% on an Insteon SwitchLinc. Dimmer. I have always had better luck with dimmable bulbs but they are getting very hard to get. All the bulks buy boxes of bulbs, regardless of brand are Non-Dimmable, around here now. I did see GE make a debut in a Lowes Canada store this morning. This happened to me with the Cree bulbs also. They were the best in the beginning. Now I have none left and HD Canada took them off the shelves. Feit bulbs were excellent for a time but they have disappeared from out local stores now also. Best to try a package and don't make any marks on the base. HD would return mine if they were never used and they looked at the base for abrasions,
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Dead ISY 994i Power Supply
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.
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Dead ISY 994i Power Supply
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
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Program with if(variable) condition doesn't run
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.
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Program with if(variable) condition doesn't run
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
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Insteon product availability
We are trying to get that wall built by 2024 to keep the refugee masses from overflowing Canada's free health. ...but get your dental work done first, bring drugs, and Insteon devices with you. Those cost more than shipping here.
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Insteon product availability
I guess it is too early to expect any product to be shipped to Canada, personal or dealer, yet. $112 USD for one MS...ewww!
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How to find what programs a device belongs to?
Yes. I guess the label was different. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk
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Help, big time freak show
That would be @kclenden
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Help, big time freak show
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.
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How to find what programs a device belongs to?
Yup. Right click on any program name in the program tree and select Search, Programs, pick one. Keep clicking it repeatedly until you don;t see any update onscreen, and then it will be looping back to the beginning again. ooops! Select Device, not program.
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Motion Detector not showing motion changes (On/0ff) on ISY
Have you allowed enough time for the Linking mode to reset or reset it manually? Put the MS in linking mode and examine the options. Some can lock the MS out after motion for quite a long time. Have you tried a "Restore" on the device after it was set up? Can you show a screen shot here of your option page after putting it in linking mode?
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IoP Email Issues Had to set timeout to 3000ms
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.
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IoP Email Issues Had to set timeout to 3000ms
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.
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Switching from Insteon to something else?
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.
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IoP Email Issues Had to set timeout to 3000ms
I don't think Google Voice was ever permitted or launched in Canada, if that what GV means.
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IoP Email Issues Had to set timeout to 3000ms
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