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The way I look at it a USB PLM can act as a backup PLM board for ISY994 further support in the even yours does decide to fail in the future. Then if you decide to switch over to the polisy the USB PLM can act as the Insteon interface for that box. This gives a lot of breathing room to protect you from being locked out in the event of your current PLM failing. Then with or without a polisy you have the opportunity to start switching to Zwave at a future point. Who know what else my develop in the meantime. I have heard a lot of good reports about ZigBee in the air. Many serious industrial and commercial applications use it with good success already.

You may be developing noise that interferes with your Insteon communications. Without clear confirmations your devices may be doing retries. Have you tried doing a restore on each device involved? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Just don't press the beep button if you don't want the beep to beep. I have always found the beep function useless ad it is not audible unless you have your ear to the device. The time length has never functioned on any of my 25 or 40 Insteon devices. This is not the fault of your ISY but rather the fault of Insteon that never haf a clue what the Chinese designers made the devices do. Proof of that is they cannot supply specs to 3rd party developers. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Easy big guy. Yeah we hear you, but to keep the peace we have to let things slide many times. The forum also has a block user feature that can be useful, even on a temporary basis until 'absence makes your heart grow fonder' again ..and it goes both ways. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

If one has ever used a GPS in a vehicle one knows there are places where satellite location just isn't reliably accurate to more than a few blocks. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Stopping any program at a ramdom spot can leave programs hanging where you may not want them. Lights, and or appliances could be running for hours or even weeks if you are away. Care must be taken to clean up any mess for each program if the program is stopped from another process. Usually it is best to always have cleanup routines inside the else of those type programs and just Run Else. For occupancy detection I use a myriad of MSes, including ecobee stat sensors that install a preselected number of minutes into a programmable timer. when that timer expires...we are not home. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Who's on first?

I always try to use 'Insteon Scenes as 'scenes has developed many different meanings. This is very similar to Home Assistant people trying to horn-in on the HA acronym, that has always meant 'Home Automation' for the last few decades. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Most of my Insteon devices are about 7 years old. On suspicion, I just replaced my PLM this year. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I noticed that also but thought it was related to the LA time zone problem. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Delete the device in ISY. Factory reset the device. Reinstall. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Yeah, but that is the type of programming that I m trying to avoid. Every few months I find permanently disabled programs and have to reset the sequence again. That technique is just too risky to depend on and very obscure. Control variables / switches offer a much more structured, and standard, way of programming that logic, without the traps created by disabling programs, creating possibilities of programs locking themselves out. After moving to polisy I have found about 7-8 programs disabled and processes stalled. This was an occasional occurrence for ISY programs also. Editing became dangerous as well as power blinks, making ISY programming undependable..

We would like to talk about that ZigBee thing (not now = vacation) . I am sitting on some basic Zwave things but still thinking ZigBee may be a better protocol and may be a better option. If HomAss can do it then with some specs a bridge could be written...possibly a NS, which could break open a whole 'nuther can of worms for ISY also. So if I understand you correctly, HomAss is acting as a bridge from ISY to Zigbee, mostly.

Not having tried HomAss, yet, what processes do you use from it? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Nice! With built in hysteresis. However the cycle time can still be interupted by the sensing programs. Using variables this doesn't happen, depending on program setup. Also, I wouldn't think Prgm 1 would never test false, once it is disabled and therefore cycling program would never stop or get triggered again based on Prgrm 1 until Prgrm 2 allowed it and then after the humidity changed. That may never happen for a long time. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Variables isolate the sensing from the responses very well and allows users to avoid all the 'disable sensing program's that lock up more often than I would like. Invariably, about 2-3 times per year I find some program disabled in error, which stops some process ISY should be handling. Variable usage is a much more reliable method.

Yeah, I got stuck with that aluminum wiring in one house, years back. Bad stuff back then but it is still approved here and has better connections to make it work. The brittle factor was never resolved and I would avoid it like the plague now...hmmmm maybe pandemic now? The electrical distribution grids still use aluminum mostly now. ACSR = aluminum conductors, steel reinforced. A few strands of steel down the middle for strength and aluminum outside strands, where the higher currents travel, anyway.

Hope amazon learns something out of their greedt data information gathering. Don't try to make the whole world based on one central PC/server. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

In Ontario, the electrical grid avoids any Internet reliance. They have all their own networks involving dry loop copper pair and dry loop Fibre optic strands in later years. Any Internet connections pass through many firewalls and are still totally isolated from any electrical grid systems or communications. Fibre optics do require reamplification every x km but are never combined into the same boxes with web things. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Excellent lesson for users to enjoy cloud services but never become fully dependent on them. That is why ISY supports OR logic. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Just a joke but knob and tube has been outlawed in Canada now. No more maintenance or further installation. You touch it...you take it out. Mostly insurance company enforced. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

What kind of solenoids do you use to operate the mechanical pushbuttons for your knob and tube style lightswitches? Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

No. Your linked document was full of forum junk AFaICT. In your admin console, right click on the program name and select 'copy to clipboard' ,and then paste it into your post so people can critique it and help you out. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I was thinking of moving to Europe so my lightswitches look more normal again. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

You don't lose any programming. However you may have to patch some programs that don't convert exactly. Those are all marked in yellow and the lines that didn't convert are commented out, with their device numbers and operators that didn't convert, so the user can patch them back to the correct syntax. A similar things happens to Insteon scenes as some of the devices may not have made the jump.