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I have purchased everything directly. I recall folks complaining of receiving older versions and trouble with warranty coverage when purchasing from amazon or other.

Theoretically, insteon switches communicate via powerline and radio. I don’t know that number of sub-panels is a major factor regarding insteon comms. You are on a single transformer. Communication between two legs of your electrical system is typically handled by the RF comms of insteon. Inseon switches cannot be combined with standard switches to control a single load. Each switch in a multi-way must be replaced. It is possible, but would depend on number of insteon devices present, distance between them, contructuion and layout of house, etc. In general, the more insteon devices, the better performance of the insteon network. Neither insteon nor zwave will impact your wifi system. Neither connects directly to wifi.

I wonder if the missing appliance module caused a flurry of insteon activity which subsequently caused other insteon commands to be missed.

Just got one a few weeks ago and does not connect to hue emulator as far as I can tell. Still, for me, music (sonos) control was also important and it does this well.

strange. I have no explanation. Is this the case for all of your scenes?

I have been on 5.x for a while and am currently on 5.3.something. I am still able to add a program action to turn a scene on/off/etc... Is it possible that you have a version mismatch between your firmware and UI?

I guess yet another case where the Mac thinks it knows better what you want than you do.

Assuming that the switches are still working, if the status is not consistently updated in the admin panel, I would be looking at communication problems. Obviously, if the ISY cannot see the status changes, it will not trigger programs. Perhaps other electronics were affected by the power failure and are affecting insteon communications?

Have you confirmed that the programs have not been disabled, for some reason?

To clarify also, system variables for day-of-month, month-of-year, and year, were newly introduced in the 5.x build, if I recall correctly. However, if you are into the 5 software, an alternative would be to create a variable and use a daily program (I have included this in my 3:00am cleanup program) to set the variable to day-of-month. Once you have done this, you could then create a program such as: if newly created variable (day of month) = 1 then charge batteries.

How critical is the 30-day interval? How about 28 days? 31 days? If not overly critical, why not simply charge it on the first day of each month, using the system variables for day?

I must admit that I have never noticed this either. I tapped one of my dimmers and it came to the local ON level, as expected and which was reflected in the admin console. I tapped it again and it went to 100% as expected, but this was NOT reflected in the admin console. I also get the same results as you if I dim things manually. I don't know whether this is by design or whether we are both experiencing comm problems.

What is the "garage system"? Is it insteon garage door kit using the IOLinc?

I have now updated my ISY-994 software to 5.3.2. Update appeared to go without problems. Unfortunately, the one z-wave switch that I use as a test case (yet unsure about the other z-wave switches in my house) stopped updating. I excluded it, and added it back, and it is now back in working order. Good news: I can now add the "custom button press" node and can use that node in a program "control" condition. Before, I could not do this. Disappointing news: KPL buttons that are responders in a scene do not respond to this z-wave switch in the same scene, as a controller.

I continue to find little problems with the Mac computer OS. I mostly have found workarounds, but sometimes that takes a bit of research and I usually find it frustrating. I am undecided whether to continue to use a Mac when it comes time to replace my current machine.

Yes, as should be yours, I understand.

Unfortunately, I use MacOS and hovering over the link does not yield any file name. When I download the file using the provided link, I get a folder, with three sub-folders, and numerous folders below that, but no file anywhere that I can find that ended in 5.3.2.zip. There is only one .zip file, and it is named DEF.zip. Update: I downloaded the file using a different browser (firefox, in this case) and get a folder named 5.3.2.zip. This did not happen with Safari. Interesting.

While I have upgraded to numerous versions over the years, it is suddenly unclear to me which file is the one to choose. Is it the "DEF.zip"? Has something changed in the naming convention? I thought they used to be called "insteon_X.X.X.zip" or something similar.

I just checked mine, to be sure. In a program, I can... add action Your Devices Pick a scene Drop-down list of a variety of options Is this not available to you? (unfortunately, I am only on v5.2 but I was hoping it is the same for 5.3)

As far as I remember, it has never been possible to set any "value" of a scene, other than ON or OFF.

I got an error when I tried your reference site: smart-homeproducts.com I have ordered every insteon device I have from smarthome.com. I have never had any trouble. I live in the US, however.

Just to be sure...does your ISY show the PLM as "connected"? (TOOLS>>>DIAGNOSIS>>>PLM INFO/STATUS)

Well...the steps I suggested will replace one device with another, including scene controller and responder relationships. That is the purpose of the "replace" function. If scene membership were not a concern, one would simply delete the old and add the new. Feel free to check out the wiki link provided by lilyoyo1.

Yes, it is.

Well...I just saw that the PLM is available where it was recently not in stock. That may be a small sign fo something.