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Since UDI people all seemed to be treated as not even in the running, and ignored in the past, I would like to know where UDI/PLM people rate in Insteon's new world. If we are still going to be treated as non-existent, maybe most of us should just go away sooner than later.

I I never had problems with the Ax92u routers for the quantity of devices being kept track of but I had my HA devices (about 50 mostly bulbs) all on an AP - my old Netgear router. It put out a lot more signal power than the ASUS units after they discovered each other and became a mesh. It seems they turn the output power down so the zones are smaller and don't disturb the neighbours as much. Even though I still had a single Ax92u handling all the DHCP entries and keeping track of the connection list it always did one thing badly. Certain devices would just lose their rights to connect with the Internet/WAN side. Signals were good. Connections inside the LAN were good and worked. Some devices would lose the connection between WAN and LAN about once per month at random. Never figured it out. The think I hated the most was there was never any reporting of any problem in logs, on screen etc. There was no way of knowing anything was happening except that random things would stop working. Most of the time a reboot or soft reboot wouldn't fix it. It took a power cycle of the router. Also when meshed the 5GHz band went so quiet my wife's iPad couldn't use it in the same room. The high end WiFi 6 was excellent though.

I had a lot of trouble with that combination. I was running an AC68u ??? with the Merlin firmware. Turns out that version had an NVRAM shortage, ASUS knew it and replaced it with double = 128KB NVRAM later in the production. When I went back to the ASUS firmware the problem cleared up for a while but re-appeared later. I tried adding two of the latest Ax92u mesh routers to the pile and it made them a mess also. Until I garbaged the AC68u and had one Ax92u routers fixed by ASUS my problems persisted. Look for revision 'A' IIRC. When the power blinked or I rebooted the router, every device would contact the DHCP server for an IP address. Having about 80 devices, sometimes my ISY994 and/or my polisy would not get an IP address, or it was forgotten due to a shortage of router memory. Of course ISY994 and polisy would attempt to carry on with IP addresses of 0.0.0.0 and that a made a mess of my LAN network. Things got very intermittent and undependable for about a year or more. The Ax92u routers didn't have the same NVRAM shortage. They have other problems. Putting my HA back onto an old Netgear router (without power killing mesh) made things work like the old days. Faster and totally reliable again. In the end, Merlin firmware kept adding new features without consideration if the router had the hardware to even support them and ASUS routers? hmmmmm.. I still have a few hairs left on my head.

I had thought that Nest products were locked to selected Google friends and were not accessible by other products now. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

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?