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Thanks for the fast response. Hmm...it's in at least 3 programs: a going to bed one; a "normal" daily routine"; and a guest routine (to lowly light the hallway while guests are upstairs). I'm plugging it in again.

I went to install something neat a lamp that's in our upstairs hallway. The lamp was plugged into the outlet, but in the outlet also was an Insteon plug-in lamp module (lamp not plugged into the module). Using the address written on the lamp module, I found that the module is called "Lamp upstairs hallway". I assume I had it programmed at one time, and then someone unplugged the lamp from the module. Is there a way to use the address and/or name of this module to determine which program(s) it's in?

We got a new front door. The "old" (different model) zwave lock didn't align with the new strike. I had another ("new") zwave lock, which I tried on the front door. (Alas, also doesn't align with the strike. More work to do.) I'm keeping the "new" zwave lock, however, and I'll put the "old" zwave lock on a different door, some day.... Should I put the batteries in the old lock and "officially" remove it from my system? Or just wait to put it on the other door (could be a while)? Also, I have a "phantom" "entry control". I was trying to add my new lock and did it incorrectly. After adding, removing, adding correctly the new zwave lock, I still have this phantom entry control. Can I remove this?

Hi Geddy, Thank you. Were is the "My ISY"? I got both computers working without the error. I thought I had already removed the applications and reinstalled, but I guess not. Once I removed the applications and reinstalled with the latest start.jnlp, everything went back to normal. And zwave is back to normal too.

I found it. I guess I have to bookmark this: https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/24381-iox-launcher/

One thing I don't understand: Where do I get the latest start.jnlp? Don't I need the latest version?

Thank you. It's on a different computer, but I'll try these this weekend.

I'm on IoX v5.8.0 (2024-01-01-10:29:02). Just upgraded to the latest software/firmware this morning by upgrading packages. Any idea what this message means and how I debug it? It came up a few times before the upgrade, then went away. By the way, I had upgraded a few days before, and then my Z-wave went completely offline. Did not realize this until none of my Z-wave worked, including my door locks. (I may have to change them to automatically lock by themselves. Not fun to have doors that don't lock.) A reboot did not fix, but removing the power and putting the power back in, along with the upgrade, seems to have worked. Not sure if this is related to the current error or not.

Thank you. This "trick" has been a lifesaver. I have too many lights/plug ins to drag successfully with a mouse.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. That has saved me so much time!!! I was looking for something like this, but I failed to see it.

I cannot do this. I'm trying to grab a light that is 50 places or so in the menu above the new scene, and move it to the new scene. I cannot get all the way to the scene before I accidentally grab something else and try to add the wrong thing to the scene. Is there a way in the scene to select a device? This is what it looks like, but nothing is available in "device":

Thank you, that did work after a while. Is there a way to add something to a scene through a menu? I have been dragging the remote button down to the new scene, and so many times I'd either lose it or I'd accidentally pick up a different light. I'm using a mouse.

Hi Techman, it's the latest version of the remote. 4 button. I manually added 4 lights to it, before realizing that I could link it to my EISY. One of the lights happens to be the light that's programmed to the keypad we're discussing. This is for an in law apartment. The idea is that the remote is used to turn on 3-4 lights that provide light for parking and for walking the steps up to the in law door. Once you open the door, you can directly turn off 3 of the 4 lights at a 4 gang box, one of which has the keypad (which itself turns on/off one of the lights). The lights for parking are controlled by the A button on the keypad (thanks to you, and where the switch for those lights is in a hard to reach place). I started a different thread about the remote here: Recent thread about remote However, should I add the remote button to the scene I've already created, or add a scene for the remote button only?

I have an EISY an just got an Insteon remote (4 button). I manually programmed the remote to control 4 different switches, then realized that the EISY does not get updated when I use the remote. I successfully linked the remote to the EISY, but I have no idea how to program it. I can see the four buttons in the admin console. Should I reset the controller before programming with EISY? Do I set up a scene for each button, attach the button to the scene (as a controller) and then attach a light to scene? If so, I drug a light to the scene, and instead of the light, I get a "notification controller" (see below). Is that what I should see?

Thank you. I did not know I only needed to use one button. I added a scene and it works if the button for the light is pressed or I turn on the light through the admin console. It does not work if I use an Insteon remote, but I'll research that and add a thread if necessary.

It's a 6 button, and there is a light hardwired. The button shown is one of the 4 not hardwired and would be for another (controlled, not hardwired) light.

I installed two keypads a long time ago. I no longer remember how I did it. I'm using the EISY now, and in the admin console, it shows the keypad buttons. Below is a single button on the keypad. I want this button to be a controller for a light (ideally, turn off) and then (possibly?) be a responder to the light. I would like to program button A to turn off the light and button B to turn on the light. I do not see a way to do this through the admin console. Is there a way to do it? And should each button ONLY be a controller for the switch, or is there a reason to have the button be a responder too? Thank you.

Yes, before your note (thank you for it though), I was able to click on the Network folder and then that brings up a "Network - Managed Scene" window. A view of this: I then clicked on "Address" and it arranged the addresses so all the Zwaves were together. I then turned on and off the device a few times until I found the device, which had a name like "ZY 005..." and then I renamed it (as foyer lamp) and used it in my programs, replacing the old "foyer lamp" (now called "foyer lamp (old)"). The problem is that I have ZW and ZY and the ZWs are actually "real", here's a portion of the table: Should I have all these ZWs? If not, how do I get rid of them? And I don't even know what a lot of these are, no idea what or where ZW 18, 19, ZY 2 even are. I THINK the ZW 16 and 17 are small on/off plug ins that I have turned on and do not control, and are there just because they are within a short distance from my front door lock, which was having issues due to poor zwave strength (I think, anyway). I will use the folder technique, because for what is now my "foyer lamp", I have five entries, of which only one does something I need it to do (turn on/off). For my "old" foyer lamp, it was dimmable instead of on/off, it also has five entries. And I'm only keeping it to make the network stronger, as it no longer dims correctly (it causes the light to flash). But this shows what's up: I'll move all the stuff I don't use to a folder.

Thanks, that is helpful. I realize that I have tons of ZW and ZY entries and have no idea what they are. ZW16 - ZW 19; ZY 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12. I will have to work on those first, then maybe try to figure out what the reals ones are, one by one.

After the time change, all of my programs were disabled. I had to go in and re-enable all of them. Any idea why this would occur?

Thanks, all. I tried finding the single zwave on/off module by turning it off and then on, and couldn't find it. The problem is that zwave modules aren't highlighted (relative to Insteon, which I have tons of). So, if I named something X, and don't remember that I named it that, I don't know that it's zwave. It's possible I could print out all of the devices and whether they are on or off, with the one zwave module being off, then do the same with the one zwave module being on and find it this way. I just am unsure how to do this. I have never named a Zwave module anything but a real name, like "main foyer lamp". So, if these have a name like ZW or ZY, I didn't add them. And I thought I reset the system when upgrading to prevent this. I guess I didn't.

I should say that I don't have much "real" zwave. Three ceiling fans, two door locks, one to control my main foyer lamp (and I could use Insteon to control the lamp, but this plug is close to the front door, so want to use zwave to make the network stronger). I could therefore reset the zwave network and re-add everything. I'd prefer not to do that, though, as then I have to find all the programs that use these and redo those too.

Yes, I am on the Zmatter dongle. How do I get rid of the ZW? Basically, I have a zwave on/off device connected to a lamp. How do I know which device that is? With Insteon, there's a network address you can use that's physically printed on the device. I don't see that for zwave devices. If you don't use that, when I installed them, I only added a single device at a time. I would then rename this, eg, "main foyer lamp". This would let me know where it is. The problem with these zwave devices is I added them for the sole reason of making my zwave network stronger around my front door, which has a zwave lock that wouldn't work .... sometimes. I was trying to strengthen the network, and just blanketed the area. I just plugged them in and that was it. I didn't care what their names were or where they were, and I didn't use them to control anything. Now, I want to control one of them that I moved from an outlet to the main foyer to control a lamp. But I have no idea which device this is. Does that make sense?

I upgraded a while back from ISY 994. I have both ZW and ZY devices. Should I have both? If so, what's the difference between them? I bought a bunch of plug-in Zwave devices to put near one of my doors with a Zwave lock. Normally, I name my devices so I can find them, but since I bought so many Zwave plug in devices, I didn't name them. So, I have ZW 016, 017, 018, 019, and ZY 002, 004, 005, 008, 012... One of these is a dimmer that is connected to a lamp but is causing it to flicker. I can find this one, because it's part of a program. I removed it and replaced it with an on/off plug in Zwave device that was not controlling anything, just there to help the Zwave network. How can I find that device?

OK, I'm trying to set up a program that will let me know when the front door is unlocked due to no status update. I have a program that is the following: If front door lock status is unlocked then wait 15 minutes and set front door lock to lock This is called "Front door normal". I'd like to set up a program like this (pseudocode): If "front door normal" program is not running AND every 30 minutes then query the front door lock if the front door lock status is unlocked, generate an error message The "If 'front door normal" program is not running" is there to prevent the program from accidentally querying when there is a status update and the program is running correctly. I can see how to do this part: "If program 'front door normal' is False" should work, I think. One problem is that I see no way to schedule a query every 30 minutes. The only thing under "schedule" is "time is" and then a time. There's no way I've found to schedule something to happen every so often. The second problem is that I don't know how to generate an error message. There's a "notify", but the only selection is "default", and I don't know where to set that or how to get that to notify me.