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Hmmmm... I've found that simply including the buttons in each scene, and setting the levels to 0 does NOT consistently work. It seems it is necessary to use Buttons Grouping, regardless of advise otherwise. I had a persistent problem with a bathroom keypad controller, where it was always turning on the Shave LED when I hit the main button, even though the scene that the main button activates turns the Shave LED off! Once I checked the C/Shave box in Buttons Grouping for the main button (to the far right) now it shuts off the Shave LED when I tap the main. e.g. what I want (and works now). Hit main button, it activates the "MB Default" scene, and shuts off the A,B,C Leds. (D shows status/shuts off other areas). Hit any of A,B,C, the LED turns on, the other two turn off, and the main button is lit as well.

OK, that's what I've been doing. LR Default (controller is the main button), LR Mood/Dine/TV all set the on-level for the other buttons to off. But I ALSO set the buttons to mutually-exclusive by dragging them into group 1, which doesn't seem to do any harm. Not sure what I was trying to do with the "Mutuals" scenes. Maybe I was trying to simplify. It's an awful lot of setup! Especially when you want a button on a different keypad to alter some of the same lights, and, thus (to avoid confusion) need to turn off the LED. Most of my buttons are activities, and so if you start some activity from a different keypad in the same general area, then you have to think about what LEDs you have to turn off on other keypads. And your "all off" has to do this too. To further complicate things, I have a button on every keypad "other areas" that will turn off the lights in other areas of the house and of course that needs to turn off all of the LEDs in all of the rest of the house...

What the heck does this actually mean? (Buttons Grouping dialog). Then there are more dire warnings, which may or may not have anything to do with this. So, we should drag buttons into "Mutually exclusive Buttons" 1/2 or not? And, if not, do what? Apparently I made some sort of sense of this once, (or at least thought I had) as I see I have set up these scenes for my Living Room Keypad: LR A LED Mood Mutuals LR B LED TV Mutuals LR C LED Dine Mutuals each of these has the other two LEDs in them. But the level was set 100%, and the button lights did work correctly, so I don't think I was actually using this. Actually, I think I probably started to set this up and then encountered the same problem. I don't have a clue what is expected. I have scenes for: LR Default LR Mood LR Dine LR TV and each of these includes the LEDs that I want shut off when the scene is activated. The reason this came up is I ordered custom engraved buttons, and decided to change the button positions. So, I had to do some rearranging on the ISY.

Yes, I am still having the Localhost issue. Not sure what I am supposed to do with my "faulty Java installation on Mac". I have JDK 6.x which I need for some development. I have JRE 7 downloaded from Oracle. It seems to install in a completely different directory, and seems *only* to support the web plugins and WebStart. (Which I thought we were all supposed to stop using due to dire warnings in the press...) I have to admit I'm throughly confused about the Mac Java situatiuon and 6/7. Along with everyone else.

I just did this, and there are a couple of posts here about my experience. You need to make sure your isy99 is updated to 3.3.10 first. Save a backup, then on the isy994, restore from that backup. You don't need to downgrade to 3.3.1.0. 4.0.5 (on the isy994) can read the 3.3.10 backup files. Make sure you unplug your PLM from the power before connecting it to the isy994. Otherwise, it will think it is still talking to the isy99.

Going to http://10.0.1.5/ just takes me to the standard (non-Java) web interface. It doesn't look anything like the pictures I've seen of the Dashboard.

Is there *any* documentation that explains, in plain English, how to set-up openADR? And how to determine if this is even usable in your area? The main docs refer to the openADR Quick Start Guide. The Open ADR Quick Start Guide only explains the use of the Dashboard (which currently I have no idea how to access, see separate post...) but explains exactly nothing about what to fill-in to the fields or where one might get such information. It's a total dead-end. Is this something mainly for big companies that run an OpenADR sever of their own? (Part of the setup instructions say "issue an alert..."). Or is it something usable with a suitable utility-provided API? In the Electricity tab, I can set a base price, and Enrollment Group (what's that?) and provider. I do find my provide (SDG&E) in the list. But SDG&E residential pricing is complicated. A base price doesn't provide anything useful. We have tiered pricing. There is no place to enter the tiers. Is one of the functions of OpenADR to provide those price points? (I realize much of this is likely non-useful without an electricity meter, e.g. Brultech etc., but something I would consider. Could still use it to shed loads, though, right?) We don't have residental demand-pricing yet, but we do have a simple rebate program. SDG&E issues alerts the day before heavey-use days, and you get a rebate if you reduce your use on those days. Can openADR be used to alert the isy that today is a "reduce your use" day? But I know that a more fine-grained demand billing structure for residential is coming. My building already has the smart meters, but I won't be able to access the meter using RF - I'm in a condo, and the meter is 6 stories below me in the parking garage. I know there are some pretty charts and what-not I can access at an SDG&E website.

How to access the dashboard using a direct URL? The isy.universal-devices-com... trick doesn't seem to work on my system. I get a window saying ISY Finder: Not Found. I assign my device the address 10.0.1.5 using DHCP. I can telnet/ssh to 10.0.1.5, and I can access the regular web interface at http://10.0.1.5 and the applet at http://10.0.1.5/admin.jnlp (Actually, once I do that once, it saves a shortcut to my desktop. The shortcut refers to a file in the Java cache.) Is there a similar direct URL for the dashboard? I've tried various obvious URLs.

Restoring my 3.3.10 backup from my isy99 to the isy994 (running 4.0.5) worked. I get one error on startup: Couldn't resolve Localhost. On MAC: fix /private/etc/hosts I have localhost listed there, but not Localhost (capitalization)

It's actually fairly hard to find the previous releases. I don't know of any official page that links to them. I just modified the URL in the browser address bar to back-up to the directory containing all of the releases, and I noticed 3.3.100 and 3.3.101. One is dated about a year ago, and one is recent. Otherwise, you'd have to search the forum to find the link to a specific version. What is a "finger check"? [red face] I had to power cycle my switch. FYI, the isy994 *does* connect to the network even if the PLM is not connected. It will come up in safe mode.

I've come across conflicting advice on this. I have an isy99pro, and have updated it to 3.3.10, which is the latest version supported in isy99. I purchased an isy994pro on the upgrade program. It was pre-loaded with 4.0.5. Can I simply restore by backup from the isy99 to the isy994? That backup, of course, was made with 3.3.10? Or, do I first have to downgrade the isy994 to 3.3.10, restore from the backup, and then update back to 4.0.5? This is not mentioned in the official upgrade instructions: http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index ... r_ISY-994i But I had seen that advice elsewhere, perhaps on this forum, but can't find it again. p.s. What are 3.3.100 and 3.3.101? Should I care about these?

(I also responded to the ticket) 1. PLM and isy994iPro unpopwered 2. Power PLM. green light on side 3. isy994ipro connected to PLM and network 4. blue power LED solid for several seconds 5. TX solid blue. RX solid blue 6. Memory light blinks blue for a bit 7. blue power solid on, TX, RX not lit, two green LEDs on network port, blue Memory and red Error blinking 8. No evidence that the device has attempted to obtain an address using DHCP (checked router)

Yes. Exactly what I did. To say the least. It skidded across the kitchen floor when I inspected to see if there was a card there. So, it's been re-seated. Yes, I know it could be damaged. Stupid design.

Yes I can't reboot the ISY. I can only power-cycle it. No network. There are no light on on Port A. Don't know if there should be. Two green lights on the network port. RX light is out now. TX light blinking green, Error light blinking red in sync. Factorty reset, same thing. It's dead, Jim. Sigh. Now the 24-hour wait for tech support...

Connected the 994i to the PLM. Same error. Only good new is I plugged the PLM back inthe the isy99i and it still works.

Is there a specific, static address configured in safe mode?

I've got plenty of good reason to run it without the PLM connected. I'm replacing an isy99i. I don't want to mess with the PLM until I've confirmed the new isy994i works and (preferably) restored my configuration to the isy994i. My understanding is that as soon as I plug the 994i into the PLM the PLM connection to the 99i is toast, unless I go through a lengthy restore. Would be great if I had the luxury of a spare PLM...

I purchased an isy994iPro on the upgrade program. I and upgrading from an isy99iPro. It apparently arrived DOA. - Green RX light is solid green. This is OK, since I haven't connected it to the PLM yet. - Green TX light is flashing with Red Error light. This is supposed to mean it is not communicating with the network. Cable is plugged into switch. Green light is on on Etherport port on the back and on my switch. I am able to see a DHCP table on my router, and I do not see the isy994i. (No devices that I do not recognized, which is easy, since I assign fixed addressees to all my local devices, so anything with a pool address is "foreign". Nothing there.) Do I need to connect the PLM? I don't want to do that until I actually make the switch. Just want to make sure it works, right now. Do I need to supply a memory card? Edit: I checked, there is a 1GB card in the slot. The card shot across the room when I popped it out, and then very difficult to see how to reinstall. Stupidest design I've seen for an SD card slot. Sam error after "re-seating". (Though I'd not be surprised it it failed after skidding across the kitchen floor...) There is no default static address, right? I need to use DHCP? The isy99i and my other devices are all using DHCP just fine. The DHCP is part of OpenWRT on my router. There are no instructions in the documentation on using the micro-USB. I would need Windows for that, right? Do I need to configure through USB?

No firewall software. I did a manual download to my Linux box, and did the upgrade from there. The only thing between the isy99 and the Linux box is a Gig-E switch, and no firewall on the Linux box. I do have a tap port set-up on the switch, so I could take a look with Wireshark if need be. Not sure what you mean by "use https". I'm doing a local upgrade, it prompts for the file location. Should I attempt automatic upgrade? Yes, it's a pretty old unit. There's no physical serial # on the unit. Can you tell from the UUID? File System Status says total 125MB, used 14MB, bad 0B, free 79MB. Any thing else I should look at?

Said installed several files, got to 8%, then: Upgrade Failed: Failed uploading file (reported written size is invalid) Socket Timeout Error

OK, what I wound up doing was creating 3 new scenes: LR A LED Mutuals, LR B LED Mutuals, LR C LED Mutuals. I made the LEDs that have to be turned off when a given scene is turned on responders in the corresponding scene. So, LR A LED Mutuals has the B and C switches as responders, etc. In Roomie Remote, I turn the Theater scene (corresponding to the A button) on, and the LR A LED Mutuals scene off. (I could just as well have created a program to do this, and have Roomie run the program.) The three LEDs come on briefly, then the two unwanted ones go out. BTW, I am not setting mutual exclusion using "Buttons Grouping" because when you press that button, the ISY pops up a dire warning that it's a bad idea, and that you should accomplish button groups through scenes by adjusting respective on levels. But when you do that, you can't set the on level of the LED in the scene itself - only in the attributes for the buttons. That is, for the LR Theater scene, buttons B and C do NOT appear in the scene. But if you look at the LR A Theater button under the LR Theater scene, you see all of the responders to the scene (which you would typically "copy scene attributes from LR Theater") and AS WELL you will see the B and C LEDs as responders. If you set the levels to 0, then they will be off when the A button is on. But it only works when you push the button. It's terribly confusing, but from what I gather, not UDI's fault. At least I have a work-around.

(Sorry, I should have posted this in questions and answers. Moderator: please feel free to move.) ??? When I press one of A, B, and C to turn ON the corresponding scene, it DOES turn OFF the other two LEDs. This is because I have set the levels to 0 in the links from the button. The other LEDs only appear in the links for the button, though, NOT in the scene itself. So, for A, you do not see B and C in the scene itself. However, when you go down to button A, you will see B and see as responders, and set the levels to 0 there. However, if I turn ON the SAME scene from the isy- either manually from the console or from a program - (not from the button itself), the the other LEDs do NOT turn off. I need to know how to turn the other LEDs off when I set the scene on from the ISY, not from the button. It's a similar situation to a 3-day circuit, right? A 3-way circuit works as you would expect when you use the buttons, but it gets complicated if you want to turn the scene on or off from a program.

I once knew the answer to this question, but I'm afraid it's been quite a while since I last had to do this, and I wasn't able to find the answer here or in the documentation. I have a keypad in my living room where the A, B, and C buttons are assiged as follows: A: Theatre B. Snack C. Mood The A, B, C buttons are mutually-exclusive. I've made them mutually-exclusive as recommended by making the "other" buttons responders to each scene. (e.g. B and C are responders to A.) I know there is some Insteon issue where the B and C buttons won't appear in the attributes for the scene itself - only for the A button. You have to set the levels for B and C to 0 on the list of responders for the A button. etc. This all works fine - when I use the buttons. But I also want to activate scenes from my Roomie Remote on my iPad. This activates a scene on the isy99. e.g. it's the same as me going in on the console and activating the scene. When I do this, the LED status lights do not update properly. The scenes activate correctly, (lamps) but the LED status lights don't. How do I make the LED lights update when I activate the scene from the ISY? Do I need a program?

Roomie is fairly new. I think it was released in the past couple of months. I tried to make sense of iRule. After a couple of days of noodling, I finally managed to turn a light on and off. And people were reporting in forums that it "only took a week" to set-up their systems. I had Roomie up and running for my system in a couple of hours. It doesn't have the layout flexibility of iRule. You can add your own buttons, but you can't add your own images, define the exact layout, etc. I suspect that will be coming eventually. It's more like a Logitech remote than iRule. And that's fortunately easy to correct. Just turn it on/off manually to sync the state back. Wouldn't work for the cable box, since it's a DVR model. So, it might power-up to record a show. (Though the remote power state is still OFF...) I've read a lot of comments online recommending just leaving it on all the time, saying there isn't much difference in consumption between on and off. I think you still save significant power turning it off. If you're recording, of course, you aren't saving any more than some front panel lights and the HDMI driver. However, that might be a solution for my Samsung Bluray, which also doesn't have discrete on/off commands. Back when I was in college, somebody rigged-up a sensor taped to a lamp on an IBM 360 mainframe console. I forget what was hooked-up to the sensor, but they wanted to know when a certain light came on... Does Insteon have a light sensor module? Or some combo of sensor and input module that could be used to detect if a front-panel light is on or off?

This is a duplicate, sorry. Can an admin please delete? Thanks.