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I don't think I have ever seen an Insteon device that didn't use paper stickers that fall off. I am only dating my wife though.

That response indicates the device isn't answering. Try rechecking the IP number watching for 0's that look like 8's and D's that look like 0's etc..

Yeah possible but I thought it wouldn't be offered by the IoX on polisy. However to handle the problem it may look exactly as what happened. Just ignore it. Some flag message would have been nice though. My guess is you are right on this. The updating module only discovers it, (the mismatch of versions) after loading and doing it's preliminary testing, and then in a dumb and drastic recovery method, tells you to reboot.

I cannot get my polisy to upgrade to v5.9.3 at all. I have tried using ISY Portal and IoX many times but nothing ever happens after the time it takes to reboot etc. Messages are confused saying not to reboot and then flagging me I need to reboot. Java has been upgraded. Old files deleted and new IoX loaded several times but still showing v5.9.1.

I find I have to manually install the same URLs every month or two. However the save/restore works well and helps save some hassle. I have never found the app to find my polisys or my ISY994s, automatically, very successfully .

Have you checked your router DHCP Table to discover what the actual assigned IP address is? You may have to manually insert a new URL if the IP address has changed. or Add a fixed IP address assignment to your router's DHCP table and then reboot your eISY. BTW: Some of these upgrade take about 10-15 minutes to complete the huge song and dance they require, on the polisy anyway.

Ecobee API states they may cut you off and refuse to update polls if you interrogate their server more frequently than every 3 minutes. You may lock yourself out and require ecobee support to re-enable your account access.

I keep contemplating that style but have avoided assigning rooms until now. How would you operate the fans in another room then? Say to operate the fans in the exercise room from the back patio? Can two different names be assigned? Absolute and relative?

I have two polisy boxes. I had both go down at the same time (power glltch?). Re-imaging on SDD fixed one but the other would not. UDI support talked me through getting anew SSD and that fixed the other polisy. Apparently the polisy units used smaller SSD sizes and that makes them less reliable with less swap and rotate memory bits room. A USB to mSATA programmer runs about $10 on amazon and a new say 256GB SSD will run you about $40. Programming is quick and easy. After installing it, setup takes a few hours to load in your credentials, time zone, and backup files, and you are away. It wouldn't be that expensive to create a new SSD and if, not the problem, you would have a backup drive. It sounds like those polisy SSD only last a few years, anyway, from experiences here.

It takes some real thinking and creativity to fabricate so many names. There has become so many taboo words also that Alexa gets confused with. For my motorised blinds I had a big problem for different positions and finally settled on" Alexa... Open "full living room blinds" Close "full living room blinds" Open "living room blinds" Opens to about 2/3 and cuts some sky glare. Close "living room blinds" closes to about 1/3 but leaves a gap behind couch, or A/C unit in another location. Any other position of "partial" or "full" would make Alexa angry an I am tired of sleeping on the couch.

Looks like amazon strikes again. Suddenly my "TV Lights" started working again and things are back to where they started.

Looks like I spoke too soon. Again my main Alexa Show 10" screen started doing the "I don't know how to do that" response like before. This time, only one of the 10 devices did this, while still operating the ISY Portal devices just fine. All others answered "OK". A power cycle of this device seems to have cleared up this outstanding problem unit, for now. However, my "TV Lights" commands, I have been using for over three years now, will not function anymore on any unit now. Thanks amazon....NOT!

Looks like amazon must have discovered their error and corrected their responses to my requests. Now Alexa just answers with the original "OK" again.Howvere my "T V lights" seems to have become a taboo phrase now so I will have to use "television lights" for that function.

Not that I know of but you never know what gets forced on us sometimes. They are really pushing this phony, so-called "AI" guessing, everywhere.

@bmercier I seems amazon has changed something and caused bad response messages. When I vocally operate ISY Portal device I get back a verbal message "I don't know how to do that". My polISY programs still seemed to still be triggered, most of the times though. Nothing has changed at this end. I now tried to "Discover devices" with nothing new found several times. I have changed some Text in the ISY Portal for "T V lights" to "Tee Vee Lights", same thing happens using the "television lights" verbage command On/Off. This seems to be all some change at amazon's end, or some lack of feedback from ISY Portal to Amazon. Most commands still work but most or all, retort the "I don't know how to do that" error response. All my programs are listed as "switches" to avoid t constant asking "are these are lights?". I use On/Off commands via ISY Portal only. Mostly a heads up. Anybody else experiencing this new problem with Alexa commands?

How can you know the DHCP option is greyed out if you cannot get to the administrative console?

I would doubt the minimum freeBSD O/S likely incorporated into eISY would have USB drivers for this, but who knows?

The adapters are dirt cheap and work well. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07VP2WH73?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3

I don't think the format is readable on the SSD by Windows after imaging the SSD. OUCH!

If your PLM is working well so far, I wouldn't replace it. There were too many with weak power supplies inside in between times. However if your link count is high and you plan to expand you may want to get a more modern USB type PLM. You may want to expand more devices that are not Insteon and then the link capabilty would be sufficient to keep. Getting a new USB type may be a good backup plan also. It sounds like you have a very quiet grid supply but with moving or electrical noisy neighbours moving close to you, you may want to accelerate your backup plans.

STATE is a type of variable found under the Tab STATE at the top of the IoX screen. STATE variables can trigger programs to run while INTEGER variables do not. Most users signify the usage of STATE variables by putting a lowercase "s" at the beginning of the name to avoid confusion in programs later. eg: $sVariableName

Which Great lake were you in?

After my polls SSD crashed and my polisy was rebuilt from the ground up, the F vs C nomenclature still remains on the remote sensors only. The master stat reading shows as C. All values are fine, just the unit scales are incorrect on the Remote sensors in IoX.

Another method. This is based on no direct (Insteon) connection between MS and light control switch. If there is there is more complex way of accomplishing this by disabling the ISY Insteon scene. If switcLinc is switched FAST OFF AND switchLinc is NOT switched FAST ON Then Variable $sDisable.MS = 1 Wait 5 minutes <---- if desired to auto cancel disable. If not, make it hours long Variable $sDisable.MS = 0 Else Variable $sDisable.MS = 0 If MS is switch On AND $sDisable.MS = 0 Then turn on your lights etc. Else -----

Website reports server down since about 3:00 PM today and multiple resolutions promised but still down at 19:25 Not your NS or ISY!! https://status.ecobee.com/#