paulbates

I think the electrician meant 600 watts. Having said that, there are the actual watts an LED consumes vs effective watts, which is how it compares to an incandescent. You need to know which the 600 is. 600 watts for a garage sounds like a lot so I'd assume that's effective, but don't know. It will say it on the fixture/bulb box. Electrician will know. If you are using a dimmer, I'd suggest using an on/off instead, not sure ambiance of a dimmer matters in a garage. If that doesn't solve the heat from the switch, split up how the lights are wired so they are on separate switches, and create a scene between the switches so that they act as one and all the lights go on/off at the same time

That's a great suggestion.. in pg3x and also as an iox node/device that can be changed via drop down: Local only Cloud only Auto as suggested by Panda88-Cloud if connected, local if disconnected.

Ok thanks. let's break it into pieces First, do you have a way to tell if the camect system is able to detect the USPS truck on it's own, like with an app? Another test is to see if the mail notification is working a expected. In iox, right click on the program and pick Run Then. This will force the other to run and see if the mail notification configuration is working. Try those 2 things and let us know how it went

We'll need more info to help. Can you say how you've tried to approach it? Can you copy your programs and paste them in a post here so we can ask better questions?

I got the paid for notification plug-in and have it send notifications to the pushover app on my Android phone and iPad. I also have my router and other fw upgrade notices sent there, works well and timely

It's been a while since sending things through gmail... but my recollection is that individual relay devices have to be authenticated, one time for this kind of use. Since the eisy is new, that may not have happened https://medium.com/@josewebdev/gmail-email-service-setup-for-code-based-email-sending-8b77d7c0a3c0

I'd suggest biting the bullet and moving to the paid for notification plug-in with the pushover app vs texts. The problem is the mobile carriers not wanting the traffic, not the iox method of trying to get it there

I looked this morning. It's in stock and can be added to the shopping cart.

The only insteon outdoor module I'm aware of is a relay based on/off module... This one: 2634-222

If the load of the lights, in watts, is higher than the switch rating, the switch likely won't last

Hmmm. Are you hearing a little click sound when it switches? If no, it's still a dimmer. When you change the setting to relay in iox, you have to push the button to the left of the setting for it to take.

There are a number of news outlets covering this release from Amazon: starting Friday 3/28, ALL local audio recordings will be forwarded to Amazon for processing, and not locally. I had Alexa enabled on my Ecobee thermostat and it worked well for a number of months. A few months ago I started assigning my IoT devices the nextDNS privacy enforcing DNS address and Alexa started having problems, so I shut it off then.

Yes, and you remove the triac dimmer from the equation It's worth a try and easy to do.

We haven't seen the program. Do you turn on the light as a device or in a scene? If in a scene, remove the switch from the scene and add it back in, then retest

I'd still try the lamp module test. Can't hurt