paulbates

Yep. More time planning / organizing will speed the whole thing up

Truth be told I had one I bought a couple of years ago to announce for leak sensors and sump pump depth alarm in my basement . One of the leak sensors was in a well area and the floor gets damp there... so it went off as it should but not really an emergency. I was able to move it a foot or so to still work but not false positive. But that event was not a hit with my wife as it was not a real problem and home automation took a shot on goal when its otherwise really good. I got rid of it. I had the same problem with yolink version. Too screamy. Still looking. I also don't want to keep adding things like zwave, zigbee, wifi etc to solve one problem and throw other topologies at the problem. .. and I thought about that old X10 chime that gave a nice beep ..... beep ... beep several times.

In systems like Indigo, HouseLinc or Home Assistant, the PLM is the system of record and the automation software looks there and "pulls" the network data from the PLM. The UDI / iox controllers on the other hand are the system of record for the Insteon network. These controllers maintain the master link table and "push" it to the PLM and Insteon network as each device as added. As mentioned above, what you want to do is not possible with the ISY.

There is an older lengthy post. This particular comment covers it. If you are hemorrhaging time, you could read the whole thing, but picking through it won't hurt. My recollection is that there are features in the device's panel when you add it to iox.

That is a sign. If either restore PLM or unplugging from the wall and replugging fixes it... highly likely a dying PLM. Look at the link table count can help, but..... wait for it to happen again as once you restored, it has its memory of links back for a while. If it is a failing PLM, these events will cascade until its finally dead.

I had one of those X10 modules as an alert for an automated garage door before closing it. The Insteon on/off plug, like most Insteon device can be sent a message that will create a very brief, kind of quiet "cheep". It's meant more for diagnostic use to know that the switch is being linked or has a problem. It also can be used in debugging iox programs. Insteon makes this siren module. It has 2 responses: It can make a door bell-ish ding dong like walking in a store, or a screamy siren sound that has scared my family members, pets and probably the plants. It's not clear from the post about the continued role of X10. I don't think the current release of Insteon products respond to X10 any longer.

UDI announced that the 994 series was end-of-life almost 3 years ago. If there is newer software, I believe one of the Help drop down menu items would indicate you could upgrade it.

How did you replace your plm. Did you swap new for old, or did you follow the plm replacement procedure to get the new plm's address into the insteon devices? The symptoms suggest the first of those 2

To clarify, I only used the sensor side of the iolinc, not the contact closure feature. For that, I used this yolink contact sensor: YS7707-UC I was hesitant because it is battery but having no problems. With it. I replaced an iolinc monitoring my sump pump and the cycle times line up with the iolinc. If you go this route, note that the sensor has a red LED that comes on initially when contact is sensed... for like only 2 seconds and then goes right back out. Made wiring kind of interesting as I thought my wiring was messed up.🤪

How old is the PLM? If you don't know, there's a little white stick on the back with 4 digits, what are they? Have you had a major power event, eg brown out, black out, nearby lighten strike? Did you un-plug, wait 10 seconds and re-plug the PLM and retest?

That is a different problem. There are 2 ISY skills for Alexa and I think most people were using the newest while also having the prior one loaded. Amazon was taking the worst case scenario by reporting the older, V2 ISY skill

The iox/ac value is the fw rev and what's on the switch is hardware rev. Sometimes the fw version is there too. Iox reads the fw version off of the switch. What's important to know is that both values are essentially "academic" values as the FW of Insteon switches is not field upgradable by the user. What you bought is what you have.

I know there's' a lot in this thread .. Does shutting skyport cloud api from the thermostat's menu help? Skyport cloud had growth issues +10 years ago and it trampled on local activity sort of like you're describing.

My experience with the color touches was nodelink and that was a very good experience. I only stopped using them because I moved from that house and left them and the system there. What I recall about the API is how transactional it is, meaning it's only as good as the last call to it. I would not be confident about it juggling more than one client at a time. The question is, are you simultaneously connecting to the same stat with both nodelink and the Venstar plugin? The hardware/linux in the colortouch series is pretty limited. If "yes", I would stop one of the the 2 clients, pull the stat off of the wall to reset it and try again,

FWIW, earlier this year I retired anything Insteon that was a sensor, either iolinc, MSII or leak. "All On" events are limited for me since the majority of my devices are "All On immune" i3 paddles and i3 outlets. I have some dimmers and micro modules which are susceptible to the all on, none of them have come on randomly, unexpectedly, since that time I switched to yolink sensors. It does add a small but noticeable delay for motion lighting compared to using the MSII, but this trade off is better for me.