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The bigger question: why are these occurring? Is this an issue or not?

Like others have mentioned, I am now seeing many on-line and off-line notifications per day, screen shot posted. This does not look normal to me.. I am running both an ISY for the IR capability alongside the Polisy but haven’t noticed any system “issues” per se.

Wow, I have only been running the “new” Polisy for six months and now another new piece of hardware. If I had known the EISY was imminent, I would not have spent the money to move from the ISY to the Polisy. I understand technology marches on but this feels unfortunate. Did I miss that this latest generation was coming soon?

Guess my lesson may have to wait for another day. My wife just told me she prefers to control the hall lights…GASP, manually! What is this world coming to???

Thanks all for the comments and this has been very helpful for my understanding. I’ve never used the Adjust Scene feature so seems a good time to learn. I would only be doing the adjust twice a day, once when it is dusk, once when it is dawn so hopefully will not experience any issues with the lag time.

I was using multiple scenes before and thought this variable approach was much more....elegant. 1 scene instead of 3, 20%, 80%, 100%, and less code. If it doesn't work the way I thought it would, feels like a swing and a missed opportunity. The variable is being treated like a static value instead of.......a variable. That's weird that you have dates as an option for on levels, I have only percentages or variables to pick from, no dates. Doesn't make sense. I'm running 5.4.4.

@Techman Here's the scene. --------------------------------------------------------- $Dark_Ind is a State variable set at Dawn or Dusk $Hall_Illumination_Code is an Integer ---------------------------------------------------------- Set Dawn or Dusk Conditions If $Dark_Ind is 1 Then $Hall_Illumination_Code = 20 $Hall_Illumination_Code Init To 20 Else $Hall_Illumination_Code = 80 $Hall_Illumination_Code Init To 80 Hall_Grp_Motion_ON If 'Hall_Motion-Sensor' is switched On Then Set 'Hall_Lights_GRP' On '$Hall_Illumination_Code %' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Hall_Grp_Motion_OFF If 'Hall_Motion-Sensor' is switched Off Then Set 'Hall_Lights_GRP' Fast Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I've come up with a potential use for the feature to specify a variable for a light device illumination level. I have a Scene with two devices, and within the Scene set both devices to use the variable for the ON level. I have programming that changes that variable based on certain conditions. What I expected to happen was that the Scene would turn on at that ON level at which the variable is currently set. What seems to happen is that the Scene always turns on at the ON level for the variable at the time that the Scene was created even if the variable is different. Is this correct?

@larryllixhere is what I remember, your summary is mostly correct. Came home and lights in pantry, keypad and dimmer switch were flickering, but no other lights or switches were flickering (Yes, I do not recall any other lights or keypads flickering) Replaced dimmer switch and tried to link it to Polisy (I have two switches in the pantry, a dimmer and an 8 button keypad. The decision as to which device to replace was easy, don't have an extra 8-button, did have an extra dimmer, replace the dimmer first) All hell breaks loose and now all lights, keypads, and switches in the house are flickering (While I was in the process of replacing the dimmer, all the other lights and keypads also started to flicker, I think. After replacing the dimmer, I then went to admin console on the Polisy to link the new dimmer and had error messages pop up that every device in the house was unable to communicate) Next Were the lights in the pantry, keypad and dimmer switch all on the same electrical circuit? (Yes, I believe so) After shutting off the power to replace the dimmer switch, installing the new switch, and turning the power back on, were the pantry lights flickering? Was the keypad flickering? Was the new switch flickering? (I never turned off the power, removed the old switch hot, rewired the new switch hot. I know, I know, I know, don't beat me up. As I remember, at this point, all lights and keypads in the house were flickering. When I saw the the error messages for every other device in the house, I decided to replace the PLM. I remember very distinctly as that process was underway, when the event viewer displayed a write message, the lights in the room where the computer are, also flickered along with the write. It took multiple iterations to get through the PLM restore to the point where almost all the devices were at least reachable by the Polisy) Once the flickering throughout the house started, did it continue non-stop? Was it flickering when the power company and/or the electrician game out? (The flickering continued until the PLM restore was completely done, no flickering since then, including when the power company and electrician came out.)

Hi all, wanted to circle back on this now having come out the other end and for whatever help my experience may bring someone else. Power company and electrician were out - no wiring issues found. Ultimately came down to what I believe was a PLM failure over a matter of hours from the time I first saw the lights and keypads flickering to replacing and restoring the PLM. Given the PLM was closing in on 3 years of service, that time period is consistent in terms of failure with all other comments I have seen from others unfortunately. Guess I may soon embark on a journey of repair on the bad PLM to make sure I have backups at the ready given no indication on what is going to happen with the new Insteon team. Even after restoring the PLM which took some hours and multiple attempts to get through, I still had 3 keypads which showed either pending writes or were unreachable by the ISY yet had varying degrees of ability to communicate with their connected devices / scenes from not at all to working correctly. For each of those 3 devices, my chosen path of action was to delete the keypad, re-link the keypad and then setup each keypad as it was previously. That process worked successfully. I also found I had a smattering of other devices, IO Lincs primarily that were exhibiting inconsistent behavior. I followed the same path, with deleting and re-adding those, also successfully. Knock on wood, happy to say I think this exercise is over and all is working correctly. I appreciate all comments from others and am always happy to learn new things and remain impressed with the knowledge and willingness to help shown on this forum.

Thanks all for the comments, calling the power company tomorrow. If they do in fact find a wiring issue, I’m going to reimplement the previous PLM. Been a weird few days, lights turning on or off by themselves, etc. @larryllixto your comments concerning the solar system, the solar system is not used as our power backup, we have a generator for that which kicks on automatically within 30 seconds after detecting an outage. I have no indication from the generator app, or the UPS on my house server that we actually lost power. Something happened during that period, no idea what.

This is all good stuff. Let me add one more tidbit of info. I noticed at the same time this was going on, an anomaly with our solar system. The only relationship our solar system has is a SolarEdge Node server in the Polisy which provides nothing but info. But, I noticed from the monitoring app, a big gap in the self consumption graph plus a big consumption spike in the middle of it, screen shot is attached. We weren’t even home during most of this,so it was nothing we were doing. How does this add, or not, to the discussion?

Thanks for the feedback. Going to have to figure out how I engage the electric company on this one with no actual outage to report. Hmmm. More info - I was finally after multiple attempts, able to get most of the devices back on-line. I have 3 devices, all keypads, still with writes pending (error writing message), or unable to communicate. Haven't touched any of these guys in months or more. Now I'm wondering if the switch I replaced and / or the PLM I replaced were not in fact bad. How do I tell a bad PLM in this scenario? Don't want to give up on this one given they are now worth their weight in gold.

Came home from running an errand, lights in the pantry, keypad, and dimmer switch all flickering. Start troubleshooting, figure I have a bad switch, replace the dimmer switch, go to link the device, all hell breaks loose. Lights flickering all over the house, keypads flickering all over the house. Ok, this is an issue affecting everything, likely the PLM? Replace the PLM, Restore PLM, lights all over the house still flickering, keypads flickering, 1/3 of my devices can be reached, 1/3 cannot be reached (Red !), 1/3 pending writes from the Polisy. Cannot communicate messages all over the place... What the heck is going on????

Thanks Doug, think I will hold out for a while, no pressing need and hope @bpwwer will find the time to get this added to PG3.

@CH491 @ralbrighthaving probably a configuration problem getting this node server to work. All messages in PG3 seem successful, node server shows up in the Polisy, yet none of the media options shown from the article are available. On the main status display, I see Plex Webhook Listener with the 4 fields; Node server online, listening port, client count, and rapid trigger. In the program section, the only options available are the same 4. I’ve added the Plex webhook address as specified, what else should I try?

FYI, I also tried the AVRemote NS suggested by @Dub and it is really close functionality as well. With that NS, all 3 zones are there for my Onkyo and all input selections are there with the exception of Streaming Device input which is one of my main interests.

Thank you @garybixler and @bpwwer. Looking forward to that improvment.

Hi @dbwarner5, pretty sure you said you have your Russound MCA-88 node server working. What node server are you running?

Hey Bob, the documentation on your Russound NS specifies CAV/CVS receivers. Do you know if this will work as well for the MCA series before I spend my $25?

Thanks folks. I did remove the other Onkyo NS and installed the OnkyoAVR NS and oh, so close! It does work and seems to have most of the commands available but only supports the main zone. The main zone will be great but I was really hoping also for control of zone 2 which is for my outside patio. @tangowhiskey1 are you out there and willing to add zone 2 support if possible? I'll take a look at ISCP codes also. Thanks

Zone On/Off and volume doesn’t get me where I was hoping. I think I will try the other one just to see if it works AND look for other posts on network resource control. Techman, the model I have is: TX-RZ810.

bppwer and Geddy, this is great information. I was indeed able to get into PG3 on my iPad without issue from within my network using your suggestions. My bigger concern is if I am not on my home network. I need to ponder about the options of setting a router forwarding rule for port 3000 vs. a VPN connection. Thank you very much.

I've been running Polisy for about a month now with very few issues. We've had 2 power outages at our house over that period of time and both times when the Polisy rebooted, I found I also needed to restart the node servers. Not a big deal provided I am at home and can get to the website via my laptop. I tried getting into the PG3 site via my iPad and ended up with a perpetual "logging in" message. I've noted similar questions from others and thinking this may be a security issue with the iPad perhaps. Is there a way to get to the PG3 site without accessing through the admin console? Concerned if there is a power outage while I am not home and having some issues that I'm not able to resolve.

Trying to find the tag for Steven Goulet listed as the author of the Onkyo node server but unsuccessfully so far. I've installed the node server and looked at it. Looks like the capability is limited to ON/OFF and volume for a zone, is that correct? Any way to select the input source for a zone?