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You must turn off the battery writes option. ISY turns it back on upon rebooting. UDI has just reported it has fixed this in the next release.

This may not work properly for the new MS II devices. The scene modification syntax has changed somewhat with newer ISY firmware versons.

MS = motion sensor. Bedroms require earlier times and run off MSes. Bathrooms require different times to accommodate the midde of the night run.

I prefer the independent program method myself. Each room requires a different time. Bedtimes are set at a constant time. I find sunset and sunrise is not how we want the lighting levels changed anyway. Summer to winter they should not vary.

The bathroom lighting works well at fixed times during the night and mornings. If you want bright lights just tap the SwitchLinc Dimmer up again for 100% lights. Otherwise you get about 12% (dimmest I can get with these bulbs) No MS involved and all manual switchLinc operated.

I use independent programs for each room and independent times for each program. Some based on sunset and some based on exact times.

You will likely flood your Insteon cache and lose some actions with so many packed together scene changes, doing that. Rewriting the EPROMS inside the Insteon devices takes time to do. Insert Wait 10-20 seconds between each line of scene change code or beak it into multiple programs that operate independently.

No. Only triggers within the same program or when other programs call this program as a subroutine. If ....Something is switched On ....AND .....From 6 AM ....To 10 PM Then .....only do something between 6AM-10PM if enabled when something is switched on Else ....only do something between 10PM-6AM if enabled when something is switched on

From....to is a complex condition statement. From 6 AM To 10 PM Triggers Then at 6 AM Triggers Else at 10 PM .... and also acts as a filter for other program triggers and is true between 6 AM and 10 PM and false between 10 PM and 6 AM whether the program is enabled or not. (subroutine mode)

I had one sales promotion on C4 and that was enough for me. I don't have $10-$15K to spend on HA and don't want to make a $400 service call every time I want the timing changed on my HRV system fan.

Ditto. 100% Insteon, for proprietary protocol home automation devices. I also have many other systems that are not closed architecture as Insteon is, and Zwave has been. I also use many WiFi devices, some cloud devices, and CAO Tags, whatever their RF protocol is. Another hooray for ISY994 that made it NOT locked into one, or another system. ISY994 made it possible to slide over from one system to another and mix systems.

Maybe but the point was if Insteon does not even promote their product or even make an appearance in a store anywhere, they will eventually disappear from bankruptcy. In the old days they were in stores and also people looking for HA would find X10 and Insteon. Today they will find Zwave and never even know Insteon exists, no matter how good their technology is. I had never heard of inovelli before so I would never own one of their products. I see Zwave devices everywhere and I may own some one day. See the association? How many MCR Control HA devices will you buy this year or next year? I hear they are top of the line.

Never heard of innovelli switches.

That makes about 2 or 3 of you that peruse the FCC database. I don't see that as any indication Insteon will exist by the end of 2021. Don't get me wrong but, their complete marketing failure, using word of mouth, may have gotten them some business when their big competition was X10, but it will not get them far with the current market competition. Google and ZWave are in every grocery store, right beside the chocolate bars in the checkout isles (exagg.). Every store in Canada has dropped the Insteon line due to lack of product awareness and no sales. (no exagg.) Their disappearance will not be my choice but their choice lacking funds to pay their Engineer and janitor.

IMHO Insteon still has the best protocol of any system. Despite Insteon showing all the signs of folding up and going bankrupt for the last seven years, they haven't gone anywhere in that time and I believe they will still be around in 4-5 years, at least. Insteon just doesn't know how to play the marketing BS or even make a decent showing. They never had to, up until this point in time! Their quality always sold their products without speaking. Times are a changin' though. Starting over, I would still go with Insteon, and add on with Zwave, following ISY994's lead. It isn't one or the other.

IIRC you have to know the IP address of your ISY to make it work. Without the Internet there is no automatic finding.

Yup. It's easy with ISY. Takes about 60 seconds to factory reset each device and click restore in the A/C to replace what ISY already knows. Then add your extra links in ISY. easy-peazy!

IIRC v4 backups are not compatible with v5. Different format. You may need to reinstall V4, restore the backup, upgrade, fix the quirks, and then back up to a fresh V5 backup.

Baking soda or just put the sensor on a concrete or other porous surface. Test it on a paper towel.

Those zip files are too large for PKzip. You must use 7zip to unpack them.

Check the summary, eyeball the bottom program in the list, scroll it to the top and count the number of scrolls time the length of each page full. or Copy a backup file, double unzip it, and check the directory file count of the programs in that directory.

Do you happen to have a lot of 1101 codes, of any shade or colour, beside a lot of your devices in the admin console device tree? I think UDI would like to see this problem. IMHO the firmware has become less stable in later versions.

I would typically use enable/disable to control a one function/one program style permission but use a variable for multiple purpose/multi-program functions. I do find programs being enabled or disabled from time to time also but always assume it is is due to ISY rebooting or complex interactions creating some condition not foreseen by the programmer that left programs in the wrong state. I do find enable/disable more obscure than variable permissions but it takes less elements for some usages and that usually makes it more clear how it functions two years from now, when the insanity clears away more.

Makes sense to do one step at a time. The first two vaccines never saw a virus and do not involve the virus for production. They are synthetically fabricated proteins designed from a SARS-COV-2 DNA blueprint supplied to us by China. But they are very delicate, need to be deeply frozen, and our bodies kill them off shortly after discovering them. This will allow them to be manufactured in hours. Trust is the delay....so far.

These are some of the values I use for a few different state variables that control banks of lights.