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Starting last night my alexa integration stopped working. (alexa would make the tone like the command worked by the skill command to turn on a light didn't work. This morning I started looking deeper. From UD mobile everything works fine controlling my ISY as long as I am local, if I disable wifi and try to test remote connection from the app it times out. If I login to the isy portal it tells me my ISY is online with firmware 5.3.4. If I goto ISY information in the portal all it shows me is the UUID, all the other fields are blank. I also see nothing under logs, If I click on events or errors it just sits there saying retrieving. I also keep getting an HTTP error 408 from the Portal website. Is there a portal issue going on?

Ticket 2148 opened on July 8th Thanks for the response, I will open it up to see memory card capacity and order a new one!

about 1.5 weeks ago my ISY started acting up. alerts not working, variables not updating etc. This happened for a couple days before I was able to login to the admin console. When I did I noticed it was much worse. It looked like my ISY had reset to factory. All of my Insteon devices were there but all my programs, variables, configurations (even my password was reset). I assumed there was some sort of corruption so I performed a factory reset and attempted to perform a restore and I just get a bunch of errors like "unable to read config", "unable to clear config". I tried to open the error logs and get an error stating "could not open file /LOG/ERRORA.LOG". I then tried to format the SD card by telnetting into the ISY. While it looks like it formats, I never see the "goodbye" message in the terminal window like the documentation states and instead the session simply terminates. After preforming this I still cannot perform a restore. I did open a ticket with UDI when all of this started but I have not had much luck getting any progress on the ticket so I figured I could come here! Is it possible that the memory card has physically failed? Any way to test this in the ISY or what to look for if I remove it and put it in my computer? I haven't opened up my ISY yet but anyone know exactly what type of Memory card it takes and its capacity so I can get a replacement ordered online? FYI - I have an ISY 994i (1120) currently running Firmware 4.6.2 Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Jim

I opened a ticket! Thanks Funny how nothing on my end changes and yet I am the one having to open a ticket! Sounds like residual issues left over from the server failure a few days ago!

Power cycle did not work for me. ISY shows offline in the portal since 4:48pm today! Are there portal problems again?

Is portal down again? My ISY is showing offline as of 4:48pm today. Tried a reboot and no such luck. Everything was working fine until 4:48

Does anyone else find it weird that UDI doesn't have access to the documentation for new products from SH? I wouldn't consider UDI just any 3rd party developer, Christ, SH sells the ISY bundled as a starter kit with their products, wouldn't that make UDI some sort of tier 1 partner or something? I really hope this is not the beginning of the end! Michel - sorry to hear that this is a major hurdle for UDI. Hopefully things change! I have a ton of money invested in SH components and would hate to see things take a turn for the worse!

Sometimes a leak sensor shows up in the ISY as blank. It's not either on or off. It doesn't happen often but I want bullet proof notifications so anyone know how to test for this blank condition? I tried writing a program that tested for "if not on" or "if not off" but that program comes back as true. Any ideas? Thanks Jim

I bought a syncrolinc and spent 2 hours trying to get it to work with no luck. I can't even get it to consistently talk to the ISY never mind feel comfortable relying on it for monitoring my sewer pump! I have ordered a current sensing switch and will use it with a pi, a small bash script, and rest to update variables on my ISY. I will let you know how it works but overall I am extremely disappointed with the syncrolinc!

That starter kit is the way to go! Glad your having fun with this stuff! Sometimes it seems like an addiction!

Stan - No need to apologize. I think almost everyone of us here is here to learn! My suggestion would be spend the money and get a pi! They really are quite powerful. If you can learn some basic bash programming (and bash is pretty easy to learn with tons of examples on the internet) then it really becomes a device that can compliment the ISY. I do suggest though that you keep it pretty much behind your router. If you start making some of the pi services public facing (like a public facing web server, etc.) then I would suggest you think about hardening the pi. Thanks Jim

sorry for the confusion, let me try to answer some of the questions/comments and make things a bit clearer. 1) I guess I made some assumptions in my original post that the folks reading this thread would understand that when I posted bash code that any reference to a "program" was referring to the bash prog am and not an ISY program. My apologies. 2) the reason I am not using JS and restful on the pi to listen for the ISY to tell me when the variable changes was for simplicity. I have this functionality running on another pi to control the lowering of a motorized TV based on a command from the ISY and it works cool but I know some people on here are looking for simple integration and a simple looping bash program achieves that. 3) the reason for using geo fence and the bash script is really for two reasons. a) I don't want the door unlocking before I am physically in the yard (even if it's only 5-8 minutes) I have other events that are triggered off me physically arriving home which I also do not want to trigger prematurely (disabling camera recording, etc.) 4) I chose to use the variable from the ISY to trigger the arp-scans strictly because thats the way I wanted to do it. There are probably a dozen ways to achieve the same functionality. This is the way "I" chose to provide the functionality. Hopefully this clears thing up? Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks Jim

I wrote this program a while ago but kept forgetting to post it. Another member sent me a PM asking about it so I figured no better time than the present! This has been running for over a year and has worked 100% of the time! Basically all you need for this to work is a raspberry pi (or some other device that can run bash, curl, etc) and the ability to assign a static IP to your mobile device(s). How it works: I have a variable on the ISY that changes from "140" to "150" when I cross a Geo fence and are within 5-8 minutes from home. The program is running through a loop constantly looking for the variable to be "150", if it's anything other than "150" the program does nothing, sleeps for 10 seconds and runs again. Once the program detects that the variable has changed to "150" it starts performing an arp-scan looking for the static IP of my mobile to show up on the WIFI. If it doesn't find it it breaks out of the loop, sleeps for 10 seconds and tries again. Once it finds the IP on the WIFI. It changes another variable on the ISY. This change of the variable in my environment triggers a morning industry door lock to unlock. The program then sleeps for 60 seconds and sets the variable back to "140" so the whole process could start over again. I whipped this script up really quick and could have made it cleaner by using variables to define ISY IP, username, password, etc. but I didn't feel free to modify as needed! Let me know if you have any questions. #!/bin/bash while : do curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/get/1/19 | grep 150 > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ] then #echo "found 150" while : do #echo "running arp command" sudo arp-scan <phone_ip> | grep <phone_ip> > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ] then curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/set/2/10/1 > /dev/null sleep 30 curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/set/2/10/0 > /dev/null break fi sudo arp-scan <phone2_ip> | grep <phone2_ip> > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ] then curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/set/2/10/1 > /dev/null sleep 30 curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/set/2/10/0 > /dev/null break fi done sleep 60 curl -s http://isy_uname:isy_password@isy_ip:isy_port/rest/vars/set/1/19/140 > /dev/null else #echo "found something else" sleep 10 fi done

oh god! cancel order...cancel order!

so did I read this right? As long as you are running 4.x or 5.x these new motion sensors will work? I realize dusk/dawn and low bat haven't been tested but the base functionality will work? So these new motion sensors have the same internal model number? Thanks Jim

its funny reading this because i am dealing with the same challenge. I finally added insteon controllers to my heat tape on my roof. I use a fairly accurate weather station that is only 3 miles from me to tell me when it is snowing, icing, etc. and based on that info I am able to pretty reliably turn on and off the heat tape. I also add small waits to allow for some flexibility. My program to turn on the tape looks like this: If Module 'Climate' Temperature <= 33 °F And ( Module 'Climate' Condition is Blowing snow Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Ice pellets/sleet Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Drizzle Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Rain Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Rain showers Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Rain/snow mix Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Snow/sleet mix Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Wintry mix Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Snow Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Snow showers Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Freezing drizzle Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Freezing rain Or Module 'Climate' Condition is Freezing spray ) Then Wait 30 minutes Set 'Heat-Tape / Heat-Tape-Back' On Wait 5 seconds Set 'Heat-Tape / Heat-Tape-Front' On Wait 5 seconds Set 'Heat-Tape / Heat-Tape-Side' On Wait 5 seconds Send Notification to 'Jim-text' content 'weather-condition2' Send Notification to 'Jim-text' content 'weather-condition' Else Run Program 'weather-turns-off-heat-tape' (If)

Awesome - Thanks Michel!

As the title states, How come ISY does such a good job logging insteon devices but doesn't log other features? I think it would be extremely helpful (when debugging issues) to see network resources being executed, variables being read/set, climate data being read, etc.? Is this something UDI is possibly working on or is there a way to do this outside of the standard log that ISY generates for Insteon devices? Thanks Jim

So I just replaced my PLM (other one was 2+ years old and starting to see some strange behaviors). Well the new PLM is seeing the same strange behaviors. (IOlinc triggering all by itself, communication failure messages in ISY admin console, lights sometimes turning off randomly, etc.). I am not so convinced the PLM was dying but it was time for a replacement regardless! I have about 30 RF devices in my home and figured I had decent RF coverage so I wanted to investigate disabling the powerline option. I know this cant be done via software but I read in another thread on here that you can plug the PLM into a filter linc? Will that really filter out all poweline communications? If yes, then if the PLM only sends via RF will all the other dual band devices also only communicate vi RF? Along the same lines. Has anyone tried to map out their RF signal coverage using an RF signal detector? Thanks Jim

So nobody has been able to determine if this issue has been fixed yet with newer units?

I think you will get a lot of comments that will discourage this idea as people feel there are a lot better solutions out there that integrate well with the ISY and insteon (elk for example) but I on the other hand will tell you that IT can be done but will require a significant amount of programs in the ISY to make it reliable. I have been working on a similiar system using just insteon, isy and wifi camera's I have an automatic door lock in my house that is controlled from my isy and its lock status is what controls the arming and disarming of the alarm. I have a detached garage that is also under the same protection via a camera inside and sensors on the doors. I have a friend/tenant that sometimes needs to enter the garage when I am not home and the system is armed. When he enters the garage he has 15 seconds to disable the alarm. This is done by pressing a certain insteon switch in the garage off 5 times. I actually disable the alarm on 3 off presses but I told him 5 because sometimes insteon drops commands. When the system is disarmed he is notified by the fluorescent lights being turned on. When he leaves the garage he turnes the fluorescent lights off which then starts to arm the system. This gives him 30 seconds to exit the garage and close the door before the system arms. I am doing a bunch of stuff with wifi cameras also that behave differently if the system is armed or disarmed but basically I think it can be done but will require a lot more planning and thought around how to make it fool proof Good luck!

As said before, get a pi and it can be done easily. I can even provide the bash code, you just need to put in your isy info and ip info! I have mine setup so when my iPhone connects to the wifi it unlocks my door. Works 100% of the time!

I am doing mine a bit differently. Instead of monitoring the oil tank level I instead track the amount of time the furnace runs. I can then calculate burn rate based on nozzle size. It took about two tanks of oil to tweak the variables to get the accuracy within 5 gallons. I simply wired a relay to the burner and the relay triggers an io linc. I then have several programs that calculate minutes and hours the furnace has run, fuel burned, gallons left, minutes left. I even send a weekly report via text on Mondays that give gallons left in tank, amount of gallons burned the last 7 days and also the gallons burned the previous 3 weeks so I can see if I am trending up or down! Here is the report that just came out this Monday (Weekly Oil Usage for 2016/05/16) 12 gal. Used this week, 76 gal. Left Prior usages: Last week: 17 gal., 2 weeks ago: 19 gal., 3 weeks ago: 14 gal.

Can you share which model camera you have that can send http to the isy? Does this same camera also accept input from http? This is exactly what I am looking for!

Back up here too! WAF is on the rise again!