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No. So far my backup takes about 10-15 minutes where ISY gets real busy during that time. With the migration over to the polisy that may change.

If you are writing the same value to the init to SD card memory, it is not likely that value ever changed and no wear 'n tear should have been incurred. EAROM memories have improved a lot over the years, but I believe only the SSD drives incorporate the randomization wear'n tear prevention techniques. Opinions on that have varied lot over the years. It may be age and brand dependent.

I am not familiar of the style of the Elk NS inputs. If the Elk inputs are ISY triggers (at all) the input can retrigger your program and clear the counter every time and nullify your counting. I would only clear the counter once the Elk signal indicates Off and after you reported or transferred the counter value elsewhere.

If your lines and Elk Zone 'XXXXXXX' is violated are edge triggered logic, "Run at startup" will always run Else.

Move the line "...Run.Timer = 0" to the last line in Else. BTW: Use the "copy to clipboad" option in admin console, and past it here using the '<>' posting feature.

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I have one tag that works well on my mailbox and one that doesn't work well inside my fridge 15 feet from the Tag manager. They are different feature options but I do not know which actual device number they are now. CAO have stopped offering some and introduced others now. I do know that the magnetic earth field detection never worked well. MY mailbox is all synthetic and no metal. I don't use the Tag NS but just insert the URL to turn a variable On and Off with the Door Open and Closed sensing. Then I turned the routine update down to every 30 minutes to save battery life. That is only used for getting the effective temperature from the mailbox. It is a combination or temperature, solar, and wind factors and gives a good "real-feel" temperature report. The 1.5 km is not my mailbox tag but another unit inside my vehicle glove compartment. The Tag manager has to go through R40 walls and full 4" brick thicknesses. My mailbox and Tag Manager are at opposite ends of the home from each other.

I don't believe Insteon modules can handle motor loads very well, by poor design. I had a SynchroLinc on a dryer motor that died and I have had an OnOff module, on a humidifier motor, send out Scene on signals when turned off. The OnOff module was reset after a year by simply power cycling it. Further to that, Insteon discontinued the name "ApplianceLinc" and changed it to OnOff module.

No. With a motion detector you would likely never have to touch the switch again. ISY can set the On level at certain times of the day for the MS or the SwitchLinc on the wall. I touch very few wall switches anymore. With a few different lighting scenes in my Gathering Room, I can only effect about 6 different levels on the one wall switch. I use Alexa for all the colours, festive themes,and various white levels, as well as off. If that fails the SwitchLinc dimmer can perform the major scenes levels including 15 WiFi RGBWW bulbs and strips around the room on cabinet tops etc. IOW I would spend the money on one Insteon SwicthLinc to run the lighting, cap off the rest of the 5 way and install an MS in the room at a key place. Then I would use my 12 Alexa boxes to control special levels. Inthe end lighting only needs about 5 levels anyway. Full, Dim, Very Dim, Off = 100%, 40%, 20%, 10-12%, 0%.

That would be hard to say. My guess is a slight comm problem and the older i/oLinks may have a weaker signal? Most apps for these are GDO control/monitoring and I have found personally, and heard many times here, GDO produce a lot of electrical noise, even while sitting idle. I had some problems with my old AC motor unit that I never found, but with my newer Chamberlain DC backup up GDO, my Insteon comms were crippled and basically became useless. Two FilterLincs helped my whole system to speed up again.

Get an Insteon MS and create a scene with one SwitchLinc dimmer that controls the bulbs. Get an alexa speaker that you can dim the bulb to anything you want. Much cheaper and the combinations are unlimited. Add more SwitchLinc dimmers later, if desired.

You need to have the device installed with an Alexa based name in the ISY Portal table. Then you can "discover" it with Alexa. Check your ISY Portal app table to see if it is installed and by what name.

If the com path is not good in the first place you will have problems and the backup schemes will have problems also. There are some work-arounds for bad comms but solving the real problem is the best and doesn't clog up your Insteon signal paths with multiple retries. They can add up to several minutes of attempts to get through, and nothing else gets done.

Get an ecobee thermostat and get rid of the Insteon junk!

Put some masking tape over the "beta" word. Most other companies do.

Just hitting the Home Depot chain with a package containing a Door sensor and LampLinc module to show the ignorant public their garage door is open, and then upsell a Hub/Smartbox to notify the cell phone app the garage door was left open, along with all the bells and whistles that could be added, once the cheap public is hooked on the idea. **SIGH** alas! I think Insteon knows garages and Insteon signals would be a losing battle and they don't pursue it. This attitude seems to reflect in all the products they already have and are dropping.

Insteon/Smarthome's record speaks for itself. How many products have Insteon discontinued in the last ten years? 10, maybe 15? How many new products have Insteon created in the last ten years? 3 or 4? How many of those new products were just bug fixes for their defective designs? All, except for the "amazing, new" Siren... a copy of the X10 beeper from 1980? Many other HA companies have produced smart lock, thermostats, talking speakers and devices that take spoken commands etc etc... What has Insteon produced? 0. Insteon shows all the signs of a company slowly folding up and about to go bankrupt. They appear to be living off somebody's daddy's estate money. If the Insteon protocol and their basic initial product offering hadn't been such good quality, they would only be a lingering name to reminisce about and ridicule. Insteon shows all the signs of another one person company, working out of his garage. Insteon isn't a ship without a rudder, it is just a raft drifting over the falls.

Do it exactly the same way in ISY. Use the system functions to get and save the current second since midnight and when the door closes get and save the system seconds since midnight and subtract the former variable value. Massage as necessary in to minutes or hours etc.. Here is a system I used to analyse heating cyles and caught a few problems for me.

Need to know what function you are using, what speed the events happen at, for how long (and signal width) , and what is feeding the signal to it. Usually just an RC input network but both sides of the signal will be delayed somewhat.

I had that same problem a while back and resolved it by using a reserved IP address in the router DHCP reservation table as well as the same static IP address in ISY. Since I have discovered my router would not handle more than about 51 IP addresses (I have 26 WiFi RGBWW bulbs and strips), and I bought a new router that seems to handle 75 devices OK now.

This can happened because you have ISY code that modifies Insteon scenes involving those battery operated devices perhaps. ISY tries to write to the devices and cannot complete it. You need to have the battery powered device write option disabled (button at top of admin console). ISY v5.3.2 is supposed to correct some of this but I have not tested this action yet. ISY will eventually give up, once you turn off the battery writes option and the 1011 flags will turn to brown or dark green. Some devices have an open window for a few seconds after reporting an event, as per @gzaharabove.

I was wondering about a home made? loop-frame/mat mounted on the nearest wall or ceiling. Another thoughts was a centre post with beam detector shining each way and sensors on each wall. Or possibly a centre postwith both ends and a mirror on each wall. Drop a bracket down from the ceiling and you would have power available from the GDO receptacles.

The higher link limit was implemented a few years ago about PLM Rev2.1 IIRC. I never needed on so I didn't pay much attention to the ramblings.

He would need to cut loops into his garage floor for those. I wonder if anybody makes floor mats with loops built in to them instead?

I use CAO Tags but they can be detected over 1 km away sometimes and sometimes you will get a delay before they are detected. A couple of I/OLincs and magnetic sensors could tell you which garage door was opened and closed.