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Sounds like a dying / dead PLM. Some questions How old is the PLM. There's a sticker with 4 numbers on the back of the PLM, what are they? Unplugging, waiting for 10 seconds and replugging the plm, any change? Restore plm now, any change In iox go to tools/diagnostics/PLM info, what does it say What does the PLM links table show?

YW. A follow up FWIW; like the i3 security and signal improvements, nowhere have I found or seen referenced exactly how an i3 device FW is upgraded in place. Unlike matter, Insteon devices are not internet devices, no IP stack... so how is it accomplished?

We left town on vacation on last Monday when this was announced. Did it this morning. I was on 13.2 of OS and 5.8.4 of iox and they both upgraded as expected. It did not take long, like 10 - 15 minutes. I'm wired, insteon for powerline. My plugins are Ecobee, Notification, Yolink, Ring and Timedata. All came up as expected. My "audit' of programs and manual device settings show that things are working.

I've not seen Insteon update the infamous "white paper", but online discussions have suggested that, while backwards compatible, i3 devices are supposed to have improved communications and security. However insteon is unfortunately mysterious on their own site about i3; you can read about each product and the director app references them as being incompatible with their old hub. IMO the 2413 PLM is still i2, so these improvements would be realized through i3 to i3 devices only, not eisy> 2413 > i3 devices. However, that assumes they didn't make changes to it and I don't have a way to know that. It seems there would be a versioning with marketing hooha and sell it as a feature. There isn't. To look at it qualitatively, I'm into my second year at a new house, new eisy and i3 devices, my observation is that the handful of any individual insteon false "ons" (no "all ons") have been on microdimmer modules and lamp modules, which I believe to be i2. Speaking of all ons, we proved here on the forums that the "all on" reponse has been removed from i3 devices,, they are immune. A suggestion is to go to the insteon forums and ask directly for insteon to answer, or use Insteon's sales site and use the pre-sales button to ask them directly.

When switching to eisy it's common to have to open some programs and press save to get them working. Sometimes these programs have a yellow icon next to them

Having used most insteon switches for many years, and i3 for over a year, I really like i3. Coms are great and they blend in visually versus stick out and drawing attention. A couple of gotchas that can be navigated around via awareness is that to implement them, each switch has 2 'nodes'. One is the traditional settings and one is advanced i3 paddles settings. This gotcha is that there are some of ones like 'disable wireless'. A few of mine came from the factory with that set The advanced node, also called flags, do not get updated when using restore device

I would download and reinstall Java, then reinstall the launcher

Can the installer tell you what brand/model the panel is? Can also go to the panel, see if you can find brand/model info on the cover, stickers or the main board behind the door. You could search the internet for its pdf manual and look through it. I had a panel at my last house and did that. It did have dry contacts capability. If your panel does have that ability, you might be able to talk your installer into enabling it, or maybe there's YouTubes out there describing how to do what you want. You could research and decide it you want to get your screwdriver out.... I ended up installing SimpliSafe, and it sent emails based on alarm status. I used gmail to make filters for those emails and update my ISY via IFTTT. A little clunky, but it worked

ADT's approach is to be the central controller to Home Automation and integrate a with google home and Amazon Alexa and zwave. ADT uses 4 different brands of panels, including their own brand. Knowing which one you have is part of the answer. If your panel has dry contacts capability, there's the possibility of connect it to an Insteon, zwave or zigbee io interface. Integrating with an alarm panel can be technical and specific to the panel you have. It would be best to talk to the alarm installer and ask them what's possible with a dry contacts controller.

If the client is present when "the scrape" is going on, tell them to expect random beeps from everywhere there is an Insteon device

I was going to ask which model of Venstar CT do you have, there are models with and without a humidistat

Double check the directions in the link I posted above. It's not necessary to clear the java cache unless there are specific symptoms. You can log on locally when you're there, or via the manual remote link you create per the directions when you're away. When remote, iox will use the portal as a proxy to initiate conversation with the eisy. Even though it's the same iox login screen, you have to use your udi portal credentials when remote. It took me a couple of times initially to get that right

You can run iox remotely by having a UDI Portal account. It provides a link that that can be used on a remote iox instance. Note the instructions on which login credentials to use

Advanced Insteon tasks need to be done in iox on java capable pc, etc

When you add an Insteon device from the linking menu, one you know the Insteon ID of like a wall switch or plugin module, there's and option to have it not delete existing links, and use the links table of that device as input to find the others. You'll need to spend time after it's done cleaning up and naming things as it can't know what function it is e.g "Kitchen Table". You'll have to turn on on the devices it's discovered to see what goes with what. It takes a long time so go get a coffee (or beer ) A couple of assumptions The "buried" devices are all linked to other devices that are being searched by this iox feature, so that they can be found The buried and other old devices weren't used in X10 mode that some older Insteon devices supported. The devices aren't dead This should get you most of the way there and point to what devices weren't found by virtue of you not being able to turn them on or off with the device table that is built from this feature. I tried this when I first moved to the ISY with about 30 devices and resultant list of devices looked like a mess and some of the scenes where hard to figure... but as I renamed devices to functional, meaningful names, it got closer to making sense, Some scenes didn't make sense and I deleted and rebuilt what i needed

Is the thermostat indicating correctly? The little water drop icon on the top icon bar will turn from blue to orange when the stat is calling for humidity. Same for the water valve on the humidifier, is going on and off in sync with the light and values from the stat? There's also a setting for humidity on demand, do you get that behavior on both heat calls and humidity calls?

Variable substitution, I believe it works in NRs too: https://wiki.universal-devices.com/ISY-994i_Series:EMail_and_Networking_Substitution_Variables

Once you create a scene in the ISY, you turn the scene on and off, not the device. This includes iox programs.But if you turn any one of the devices on at the switch, they'll all go on and off

A suggestion is to put all 3 switches in a scene as controllers. The switches will handle the required action for you and there will be not delay, and no program will be needed.

The node/plug-in environment, pg3x is the platform on which the yolink plug-in runs on. I believe that's policy/eisy only As stated above, some yolink devices say Ifttt compatible, which says it's plausible to run it on the isy. I would message yolink tech support and ask specifically about this device, Ifttt and how does Ifttt work with it. I have found them timely and meaningful in their help

I use yolink on eISY with the plugin. The integration is really good. I know, all things considered, it's a bad time to suggest upgrading to an eisy, but the integration is there. I haven't seen the mousetrap yet, but other Yolink products integrate with Alexa google home. Some of their products claim IFTTT integration, and I assume that the Yolink hub is the integration point for that. Yolink's support is very good, you could contact them.

Another option in yosmart / yolink. One of their features is reliable, long range (1/4 mile) communications. There's a great, well supported plugin for eisy. I use yolink temp/humid sensors in my fridges/freezers and also control venting for our master bath. I use a plug in module to monitor our dryer and turn on the fan when its on. I also use their smoke/co sensors tied to virtualarm.com monitoring. The also have switches and outlets, depending on what you're controlling as @Guy Lavoie asked Yolink is neither expensive or difficult to set up, maintain. It complements an ISY/Insteon where it does things like this better, yet still run by iox programs on the same eisy

There's some things to think about with multiple PLMs and eISYs: Insteon devices need to be on one or the other, but not both eISYs The 2 PLMs won't be aware of each other, the chance of traffic collisions will go up If you have Home Automation functions that will cross the 2 eISYs, it's a bit technical to get them to talk. The way I know how to do it is Network Resources that set a variable in the other eISY. Possible, but debugging can get tricky. It might be possible to solve the Insteon communications problems directly. Can you describe the buildings at a high level, how big, what they're made of and how far apart? I had a detached garage at my last house and I had a 2 band device like an appliance module plugged in on the house side of the garage that was in signal range of switchlincs in the house... I need that because I had iolincs in the garage that were single band. Maybe the same would work here.

A long time friend and mentor have me this phrase: Price, Quality, Time.... Pick 2. My ~ 10 years with UDI days it the first 2, and not many (non self inducted) problems as a result.

Do you use DHCP to assign IP addresses to devices?