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I had thought Google had disconnected their Nest stats from the public and the answer was .. ...get an ecobee smarter unit.

@bpwwer Installed all updates using puTTY method... sudo apt-git udpate..... sudo reboot for complete refresh of all modules. Looks good. No problems detected. Only 1 NS being used though.

No heartbeat. Insteon battery devices that send a low battery signal do not send heartbeats. UDI could never get co-operation from Smarthome, in the form of a protocol/spec sheet so the whole interface was hacked. Some data is still not understood perfectly. I ignore the non-MS style parameters. They always appear incorrect and random. Any attempts I have made to "calibrate" them has resulted in further errors in readings.

Yeah. I often suspected that with CanPost. Any package I have ever shipped with them, if it won't fit into an envelope, is always more than $28 each way. Larger packages, like the one you suggest, were always $35-37 or more, each way. Makes the repair cost seem insignificant but the overall cost prohibitive. I finally tossed my oldest PLM in the bin but have three more yet. I always suspected the business rates must be less or they wouldn't survive.

I assume 40 for both ways? Where did you get shipping that cheap? Or was it local for you? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

It must cost over $20 to ship them each way in Canada. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

The jury is still out on this matter. Ken, the new CEO of Insteon, has requested people be patient while he attempts to put the puzzle pieces back together. I'm not giving up yet. My system still works just fine. It's ISY based and not cloud dependent.

It's not the exhausted air that dries out the house. It is the incoming air that does that. When ventilating my extremely damp cold cellar (over 85% rH) I discovered that rH is not the factor that matters. I would bring in hot humid summer air that was lower rH than the cold cellar Rh and the Rh would rise every time. I had to understand dew point then. After figuring out how to calculate dew point for both environments using ISY calculations (fudged it a lot) the selective ventilation would actually lower the rH of the cold cellar. Although I could never get the rH below about 75% but I stopped the molding that was ruining things. To meter both ends of this I used an Insteon 2441WTH stat and two CAO wireless tags to send information into variables. The inside Tag was a backup to the Insteon stat, only. If the metered range was not reasonable or the Insteon signal was flaky the Tag would switch itself into the calcs. The most interesting point was using rH to control the humidity. Strange how you can bring in lower rH air and it can raise the destination air rH. Lesson learned on that one.

I'll have to give those a try as the constant randomising the from address by the UDI default converter is driving me nuts now and I can't make my Gmail SMTP server work for live nor money anymore. Rge constant changing of the from address makes it a lot of work to delete every SMS individually and floods my lists with so many different message titles like a nasty spammer making it useless, mostly. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

You would require a three wire cable a d the bare ground doesn't count. Dimmable receptacles are a bad idea and I doubt you will ever find one in upper North America. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Toe testing the water to bring the investment debt out of the devil's pit? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Oh sorry. I have never used the output contact statuses. I always did my own setpoints inside ISY with longer or shorter cycled the humidifier appropriately based on the ISY setpoint. However I did sync my ISY setpoints off my ecobee stat humidity setpoints. When I built my home many contractors stated I would never need a humidifier, based on the sealing of my construction, so I built the air handler space too tight to add one. Boy, were they wrong! If you use an HRV ventilation system in the winter climate. I used a large room humidifier and had to haul water regularly in winter months. 😪 IIRC, my ecobee 3, and ecobee 4, only ever had one extra contact output. You had to take your choice between usage setup.

yes. you can see them in the status page and use them in programs to read or set Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Text messaging has changed over the last few years. They were never guaranteed as instantaneous and now can take days to arrive. This is very annoying as another good medium has been wrecked.

Usually providers provide a conversion address method to convert emails to SMS so you can use the native ISY notification action system. it usually looks something like 1234567890@verizon.txt.com do a search for listed domain names. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I always use the bash script via PuTTY to upgrade and always have to power cycle polisy complete. Something always hangs after until a complete reboot. Other upgrade methods have never worked for me and the bash commands are already embedded into the command line memory so I can access it with a few keystrokes. I have tried the online menu options, and the reset button method but had no success. Things may have changed in the last few upgrades though.

Most electronic devices have a circuit that keeps individual circuits from running or causes a general reset after power is fully restored to all circuits at functioning levels. With SmartHome's horrible reputation of cutting out components until the prototype won't run with even one less component, my opinion is that you are totally correct. I doubt any Insteon thermostat had enough "brains" to remember bad things from a poor power down sequence or cause a polite power up reset to ensure proper quiescent state. While voltage is quickly waning you don't have time to write cycle data to an EPROM memory.

Always factory reset before linking to ISY. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I had two of the 2441ZTH units and found those units were bad news. My oldest one worked fine but when I got a newer model ISY could not ever control it. The newer unit always reported status changes but after an online support call from Michel, he pointed out the stat was reporting changes sent by ISY as confirmed each time without actually changing anything in the stat. The newer stat had an actual engineering design defect built in. Of course they wanted me to pay for return shipping to get warranty repairs honoured. That was one of the 3 for 3 items they sent me in that order that turned out to be defective on arrival. Another item was the iRLinc with a reverse wired iR sensor. In each case the return shipping costs were higher than the devices were worth. I never ordered directly from SmartLabs again. I digress but to be short..I wouldn't trust Insteon stats to control my doghouse. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

After a complete power outage, what difference would the slow death of the power supply be? I doubt an Insteon thermostat would remember how it died that a simple linking button would solve. If a factory reset was necessary, I could see that, possibly. Depending on your HVAC zoning configuration, 1 x ecobee stat with 9 remote sensors may do your job but then you would be faced with 9 x CR2032 batteries to replace every 2-3 years.

Thanks for the report. What type of sensor was it?

I have had an IP duplication a few times in my life. It isn't always the devices with duplicate addresses that act up. A few times the whole router network acts up and they can take turns at random or stay with the same device lockout. I had about 60 devices locked down in my last setup with IP reservations and when you get a duplicate due to some bootup error you can sweat for days trying to find it. The symptoms are way to random to zoom in and you can't get your system performing properly to diagnose it either. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Unless every device is manually IP address locked or you even have one dynamic IP address that your router can DHCP assign, sooner or later you may experience what looks just like what you have right now. I have been there a few times over the years and trouble is it can change every time you reboot or power cycle. BTW: I ran various models of ASUS routers and unless you power cycle them, some problems never clear up from a reboot. I have 2 x ax92u WiFi6 mesh routers for sale right now. Lots of features but as undetectable ad the last one I dumped. I hear reports that Ubiquiti are about the same calibre, from some sources. ***sigh*** Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

You will also likely need the latest version of ISY you want to install after a factory reset.

Power cycle your router. This sounds like you may have created a duplicate IP address, and power cycling your router may change some IP addresses around to allow you to connect with your ISY. This also sounds like you are not using DHCP in your ISY. This can cause IP confusion when two IP addresses clash. Always set static IP addresses inside your router so that it can manage them properly, avoiding IP address duplications.