paulbates

I've had an ecobee for year. I came from Venstar Colortouchs that had tons of settings and adjustments you can make. I also had a lot of iox programming to keep things adjusted. The ecobee is the opposite of that... it takes care of just about everything on its own. You'll want to get used to letting it do its thing and also looking at the app for settings and features. For the occupied sensors, they change to occupied immediately when something crosses their path. I use the remote sensor on our master bedroom to turn off the suite lights when not occupied.. its exactly 30 minutes to the second after the last motion sensed The eco+ is an install time decision, or later with the app. You can look in the app, or here The value I get from the plugin is some notifications for reporting, turning lights off when leaving an area also to activate the HVAC fan to follow up outdoor vent fan automation for our master bath and upstairs laundry. Edit: What causes the ecobee to go into these Eco+ states? Mine normally uses 0, 6 and 7 not 1. EN_ECOHCS-0 = Idle EN_ECOHCS-1 = Heat EN_ECOHCS-6 = AuxHeat EN_ECOHCS-7 = AuxHeat2 EN_ECOHCS-8 = AuxHeat3 I'm not sure this is right. Do you have a heat pump? Can indicate which wires from your system go to which wiring spot on the ecobee?

Why to be sure I understand: if any one of the three leaves or comes home, all three people should get a notification?

It's true of most forums; do a Google search and add udi isy.

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I use the ecobee plug-in for reading fan status. I have a program that monitors the fan runtime for when its status is on, but not because of heat or cool cycles as I have several functions that cycle the fan manually and I want to track that. It's worked fine for the year I've had it. Something that will help is to go into pg3x for ecobee and turn on debug level logging. Let the event you're looking for happen. Attach the log here or pm it to @Jimbo.Automates and referring to this post.

As Brian suggests I put an old phone charger block on several of my Christmas LEDs to get rid of the glow or pulse. Sometimes it takes 10 seconds or more to finally have it stop.

I migrated years ago from 2 easyfloras to a rainmachine. The software I used was io_guy's nodelink which doesn't fit in the pg3x model. However, 2 things: There is a pg3x plugin for easyflora in the production store from another developer The rainmachine is extremely capable including internet weather. It does just about everything on its own. I used the plugin to run one "hot zones" program based on outside temp and also create notifications when things ran. I've since sold that house... I think rainmachine changed the remote access model to subscription. You'll want to look at that before deciding to go this route.

Plugging the GDO motor into a filterlinc would help as well.

Something else that's proven to help me when powerline only devices are on my Insteon network; add the components of the old signallinc bridge to your power panel. This gives powerline signals a direct path across the the legs.

The insteon thermostat is a little different than other insteon devices. It's not getting powerline signals so I didn't know how it would repeat local traffic. I'm not certain it would repeat wireless traffic, just don't know. If the thermostat is protecting something including the garage itself, I'd look at putting a module out there that can reach the house.

I've run into this. The io module is a power line only module and my belief is that the door motor line noise is preventing the signal from making it to the plm. I did the query program a second or 2 after door travel time and it worked. I first added an access point to the garage (it would need to be a plug-in module today). This helped, but the query program seemed to fix it for free it could be added later if you continue to have problems

Yes, that looks right. There's a catch-22 with the PLM restore.... you have to be connected to do it. Try powering down the eISY Unplug the the plm Unplug and firmly replug the plm's cable to the eISY on both ends plug the plm back in wait 10 seconds, the start eisy back up

It happened to mine when I first set it up. It took 2 or 3 times. I'd the insteon box checked in iox under config?

There's a couple of things to look at How old is the plm? Post the 4 numbers on the white sticker on the back of you don't know the year you bought it. Is the LED by the set button lit? It should be. If that checks out or the plm is new: when I first set up my eisy that happened to me and I had to restart eisy several times. Then it was good.

Pg3x is the owner of the node & it's data.. it's best to delete the nodes within each plug-in there. But normally when you do, they're removed. If a node is blank, that means there wasn't data to update it. Sometimes it takes a while or certain events to happen. The details of that could be in the plug-in docs, or you could post a specific question about certain nodes in the forum under the plugins section.

Can you look under Tools>Diagnostics>PLM Info/Status? What does it say?

The limits are high for me. I don't remember specifics, but their web page explains it. I paid one time for the app one time $5 each for my android phone and ipad

I've used pushover app for a number of years. Since using eisy, I've switched from using network resources to the paid for notification plug-in with pushover. I don't include image attachments, but pushover can have them, not sure if the the notification plug-in supports them. Worth asking in that forum. Pushover gives me organized notifications without clogging up email or text. The notifications can be put in groups they call apps, but this of them ssy folders. The pics are apps (folder) view and details in one of the apps(folders)

There's a thousand and one assumptions we can all make about how it's going to be architected. It's probably best to be encouraged that they've been listening and are working on it, and evaluate it once we can do that.

The address is printed on the front, bottom right of the faceplate mount as you face the outlet. Small type, with a qr code you can scan.. It's meant for scanning it into an insteon hub, but it will come up and you can read it on your phone You can also put the eisy in linking mode, press the set button and have the eisy find it

In the comments in the announcement, Michel says "yes" The initial Jan 25 release is Insteon only

I would say that there are tiers of products for smart thermostats and ecobee is very good value for the capability, quality, dependability and service as you mentioned. It's designed to be an home automation integrated product and I'm not as worried about them pulling the rug out from underneath my working system like Nest would have. I bought mine from them as refurbished for $125 and it came with one remote sensor... in my experience that's good money for something that works.

Agreed. in that discussion we found it possible to send an All On from the button on the bottom of the iox device screen. I can't imagine where/how else the ISY could have sent that if not from the PLM itself.. My PLM that did it was recently bought one at that time.

Hmmm. Pretty strange. One more relatively easy traffic related suggestion. Most Insteon switches have an option called "blink on traffic" or something like that. The switches status light will blink when it sees any (or perceived) Insteon traffic. I'd suggest picking one or a couple of switches near where you are when the tests are run, turn that feature on temporarily and see how long the blinking goes for. Typically it will be a few seconds, if it's longer or continuous, something is going on traffic wise.