larryllix

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.

I received a v2.6 PLM today from aartech.ca

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

Is the jump to HTML being done at the same time?

I conjunction with that thought, did the fixture come with it's own switch or dimmer included with the fixture?

On my older GDO I found with certain CFL bulbs I could open the garage door by remote but not close it further than a few feet outside the door. Yup...the CFL bulb blinded the rf so badly I couldn't get any range when the bulb was on, after opening the door. Despite the warning not to install LED bulbs they solved the problem anyway. I always buy dimmable bulbs for their better power supply filtering.

I assume that is where you got the screenshot....an MS II. The v.00 is some version number only. You will have to create a simple program to detect the analogue value of the battery and notify you.

Yeah, using the MS 1 devices (I have about 16 units now) sent you a low battery signal when the battery was low. This is the one that never worked in most of the MS 1 devices. MS II is an improvement but then you will sacrifice the ability of ISY to control time durations and have to rely on the MS II solely, for it's internal timeOut timer and then wait for the same timeOut timer until it can be triggered again. **Sigh** but it's just Insteon and their lack of Engineering that we expect. Here's hoping Insteon will announce a breakthrough device like a beeper, iR repeater, IOLink with advanced single band protocol transmitting signals multiple times, or something else really exciting, in the next decade.

You could try just unplugging one and test the other also. If this has just started there may be ne that the power supply is breaking down. Mine older GDO always made some noise that I blamed on my inverters. When I installed my second GDO with the battery backup, my Insteon system stopped functioning throughout the house to about 25%, so it was easy to find. There have been many complaints here over the years about these Chamberlain GDOs.

A couple of Insteon FiterLincs would be the simplest and fastest way to eliminate noise from Chamberlain garage door openers for me. If it doesn't work then you have two FilterLincs for other and future trouble shooting. They are easy. You just plug them in and plug the GDO into the filtered outlet on the end of the FilterLinc, and then the IOLinc on top of the FilterLinc in the unfiltered receptacle.

Since the SynchroLinc was discontinued (as Insteon/SmartHome further dies) I haven't seen any easy Insteon devices capable of doing this. Most of the more complex solutions were wired in. Possibly ZWave has some devices? Would be nice to hear from Zwave people about any devices they have.