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Recreating an SD card for a ISY994 is very simple. Insert the card Connect via ssh and run the card format command. Can't remember. Run the admin console and load the latest ISY version image. Restore your best backup. May need to set your password, time zone and lat,longitude. Done The whole thing takes about 30 minutes. Format inside ISY guarantees format observes ISY sectoring and will not overrun the 2GB maximum capabilities of the card hardware. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Get a copy of puTTY and learn how to SSH into your polisy. Much easier and effective. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

If you have electrical noise you may get that error due to bad comms. Have you factory reset each device before attempting to add it to a new PLM? I used an ISY994 backup and did a restore into pilisy for mine. It took about a day to clean and resave every scene and NR. Variables were crazy due to the reverse endian style of numeric storage styles and programs enabled and disabled took about another week to troubleshoot by errors showing up. AFAIK it is all working well right now while on vacation. I get regular reports of house health and network devices health each day. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I have never changed the default theme colours but I have had the font size change on me. However, IIRC, increasing the java memory size, allows the font size to be remembered and the admin console to stop hanging at random intervals.

The admin console is a downloaded piece of java software. I don't think it has any setting memory and the settings are kept in the java memory on the local HDD files. This seems to be evidenced by losing the setting upon installing a java update and clearing all caches.

Usually indicates your java environment doesn't have enough memory allocated. It may get reset each time you install a new java update also.

For ZigBee, utilities have been using it to create mesh networks between all their metering points with great success or it would have disappeared by now. Philips Hue has been using it with great reports of reliability. I had 6-7 Hue bulbs myself and the protocol just never missed. (Tossed them due to poor colour rendition ad extreme costs, though). Some tell me the ZigBee has no standards but others elsewhere tore my head of when I stated that. I was pointed to wikipedia articles on ZigBee standards that have evolved in the last decade and many claim that most devices just work flawlessly with each other. I wrote some bridge software for MagicHome bulbs and strips and would love to get my hands on a few pieces of ZigBee hardware and a protocol spec for same.

Not sure about that Tag data path. I thought it was the cloud server that instructed the Tag manager (local) to send out it's data to whomever in the URL's the user provides. @Jimboshould know much more about it and actually I wanted to ask him for a clearer picture of the data path from Tag to his NS to ISY. Kumoapps have been down for a few very extended outages this year, as you mentioned above. I also wanted to know if NS users experienced this as well. It sounds like they did from your attached comments. As far as ZigBee I want to research that more. From it's history it may be the goto protocol. There must be some protocol information that one can write drivers for it somewhere. A NS for ZigBee would be ideal to drop into polisy and be "one giant step for ISY home automation" AFAIC.

So a proper factory reset is working well then by your last post. Your problem sounds to be quite fixable and you just have to continue factory resetting devices properly, to rid them of old Hub links and remnants.

My apologies. I missed the local operation you reported. All of my 7 Switchlincs buzzers cannot be heard more than a few feet away. Make sure you factory reset each one. I had an OnOffLinc send scene on commands for about a year, in response to the on command until I power cycled it. The little computers inside can do anything in the event of a program crash. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Same polisy IPaddress but with port 8080. The ISY finder app will aitomatically locate it and offer http and https selections. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Endian problems everywhere ! Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I have one bad one and one used purchase, still working on my dryer. I figure the same thing as the PLMs is happening, and replacing the PSU caps will fix it. Connected to an inductive motor with no other spike absorbing heater load, is likely one of the roughest noise making environments they can be used on. Just a guess, but IMHO new PSU caps should fix the problem. Then I would attempt to add a MOV across the powerlines, inside. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

I would be a little nervous deleting nodes while some software at the source end, may be still trying to stuff values into memory space that could be dedicated to another purpose in my ISY. Talk about a memory leak? More like a memory overflow. Sounds like an HA user's troubleshooting nightmare. Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Here is a thread that gives some information you are asking about. @Geddygave some answers there.

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