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Yes the help here is awesome. Turning off automatic writes never helped - still had the issue that at the end of writes the green 'writes still needed' logo would still appear with a subsequent write to devices causing a red bang. However by increasing the PLM retries from the default of 1 to 2 for all of the KPL items seems to have fixed this - though I will do more testing tonight on other keypads to confirm. mweseter - yes I am seeing the same issues and seem to have an identical experience to what you describe, I have awesome Insteon dual band mesh - so I do not think the issue is general comms issues, more something along the way that the ISY chooses to write/read to these devices. but that is just an intuitive guess. I think I may have left level 3 logging on form before and after the KPL retries change - I will post the log when I get home tonight. I don't need to appear to have a program to do this, I think I have it working without programs.

Great question about what I am trying to do. I am trying to control one group of lights (3 responders) and have the 3 scene buttons perform mutually exclusive functions. I want, say, the A button to set them all to 10%, then when I press B I want the lights to be set to 50% and the A button light to go out and then when I press C the lights to go to 75% and the B button (or A button to go out) and so on. I wasn't planning to use programs. I am trying to do it with the scene function. the only thing not working is the already 'on' scene button not being turned off when I select a different scene button. I also insist that the behavior of the system with regard to communication errors makes no sense - it ONLY happens with the 4 scene buttons on these 6 button dimmers. All other normal dimmers etc work 100% fine with no comms issues. also setting the main on/off on the 6 button keypad dimmers works just fine... I think there is a bug...

Ok, I am still getting something wrong here - what ever I am doing is causing communication failures when writing to the A/B/C/D buttons on the devices. I want to be sure I am creating these correctly - can someone confirm: Create four scenes A/B/C/D too each of the scenes add the devices to be controlled as a responders For each scene add the corresponding A/B/C/D button as a controller For each scene add the remaining A/B/C/D buttons as a responder ( - at this point I start getting random communication failures and red bangs) on the controller item in each scene (the red texted item) set the levels for the other 3 buttons Questions: why am I getting comms issues only when I configure the system this way on a 6 key switchlinc dimmer that other wise has functioned perfectly? what am I supposed to set the levels of the buttons at the scene level? what should (if anything) I do about toggle mode? I have attached an example of what it looks like - for some reason the writing icon is still displayed - I think because of the funky comms all of sudden regards alex

Thanks LeeG - got it about the on/off but IMO the description should match the product name, I know it has only five nodes, but anyways no biggie. Ahh I see the issue now, I set the responder levels at the scene level and NOT the red node level - though as I never set anything at the red node level it is a mystery to me how they got set the random ways they did. From a new user point of view it makes little sense that I can set at both the scene level and the red node level. In fact the settings are contradictory. And make no sense given the lighting status for 'Red Button A' is set at the higher level and not at the lower level. The confusion on my part as a newbie wasn't helped by the fact that testing the scene by turning the scene on at the scene level functioned perfectly. I can only guess that the somehow the scene gets activated and then the red node overrides the scene settings? If that's the case why is the scene level and the red node level not linked and locked? Gotta say this UI and the internal ISY data structures and hierarchy are some of the oddest I have ever come across This likely explains some the identical symptoms some of the folks above are having!

I have just migrated away from a revolv to the ISY994i. I have one of the INSTEON 2334-232 Keypad Dimmer Switch (Dual-Band), 6-Button I am trying to setup. And I suspect there are some bugs somewhere either in the device itself or the ISY implementation for these devices.... A few observations: 1) why is it described as (2334-2) KeyPadLinc Dimmer 5 Buttons v.43 when the product clearly states it has six buttons? 2) I have created the 'scene' approach as instructed - I have four scenes, one each for the A (TV), B (Movies), C (Games) and D (Other) buttons. When I test each scene in the ISY they work brilliantly. IE only one of the four scene buttons is on (TV, Movies, Games, Other). However when I test on the unit the behavior is totally random for example TV gets turned on the movie button light lights and the TV light goes off two of the responders get set to correct lighting level and another gets set to 100% on. If I press the movies button all 4 scene lights go on! Two responders get set correctly and one responder gets set to 100%. I can't fathom it - this is the one piece of functionality I switched the ISY for! any ideas how to get it working properly?