paulbates

This is true less often but sometimes and easy to try; Restore device on the main switch and see if that helps.

Sometimes, the devices that are linked are much further away from the ISY, signal wise, than the controlling swithclinc. If you have a spare plugin module to try in the area that could help. Sometimes the load can overwhelm marginal signals... low voltage transformers, fans, etc. However typically the problems with load are with turning it off only, not both on and off Paul

Interesting. My firm provides us the full version hiya for this purpose. It never caught a thing, but granted I don't get frequent unknowns on my phone. What I found out about for ios, that bugs me, is that the foreground app has to to be kept running in order for it to receive updates. I just switched to android and will try it again Paul

My new favorite - when calls get past noborobo Ring Me: "Hello?" Them: "Hello, before I start, I want to make sure. Can you hear me ok?" Me: "I can hear you" Them: "Our process requires a yes or no response" Me: "Thanks for calling! I've been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended warranty" (sometimes I just lead with this one)

+1 Yes - this. I have my own CM too. I love it when I call to get updates on an outage and their agents try to stuff in marketing in the end... "Do you know about our Xfinity wifi modem <whatever>" "Yes" "Don't you want one? Lot's of people in your area are getting one" "No. Lots of people in my area filed bankruptcy and defaulted on their mortgages 10 years ago. I did neither of those" You can guess where it went from there ? Paul

Agree with Brian and Michael. I have a original B+ and a 2B. The 2B is my "prod" nodelink and ployglot box. I forget about it sometimes because I never log into it. No need. I went through an overclocking period early on but then decided its prod and things already run fast. I had no problem overclocking though. Per Michael's comments I get very good SD card. I've proactively swapped those out once in 6 years. Paul

One more benefit of your own router is being ISP agnostic. The more iot I have, the more router configs, etc. I don't want the 2 mixed up. Replace your modem and that's all I need Paul

Did you contact spectrum for a replacement? If not, i have Asus RTAC88. I've had it for several years and updates continue to come out for it. It has the trend micro security module which blocks known bad sites and had IDS (threat visibility) and 2 way IPS (threat control). I configured the router to send threat alerts via email to my pushover account, so they're integrated with my other home messages and alerts. It has a complete but relatively simple interface and a lot of configuration can be done if you wish. Some other benefits: it has an 8 switch ports built in and I also have a 500gb SSD drive attached for my home files. You can also QOS prioritize devices like tvs. I found it to be a good compromise, both in price and effort to maintain, between an entry level cheap router and a high end home dedicated firewall. I am using the Merlin WRT FW for it but I believe most of the features are available stock Paul

Welcome to the UDI forums! The Home Automation Dashboard (HAD), which is a more sophisticated ISY web page which can be served by the ISY. Its the optional interface presented behind the button in the default admin page and comes loaded on the ISY. There is a transparent proxy feature that logs in with no account and password, if you host on your own server - which makes sense if you're local. Check the wiki here You can customize the page for your own purposes. I made a version of it for presenting HVAC runtime info a few years ago and still use it from time to time. You can even get the pages from the internet, through the ISY portal if you host them on the ISY. Paul

There was a user that brought up several times that locative does not work on V5 sans portal. Not sure what happened with that. Like Simplextech, I used locative with the ISY portal for a long time and it works well. Recently switched to android so I'm going to install the ISY android geofence app. Paul

Flame paint job? Headers and dual exhaust? Paul

Its a link to the zip file with the FW version appropriate for an insteon only setup. When I click it, it downloads that zip file to my download folder... That file is what you point the UI at for a manual upgrade... assuming you've backed up what you have and work through the different existing UI and FW issue. Paul

You should be clicking an Icon that looks something like this to start the UI

No, I've never had to update it. Can you show me the icon you click to start up when you see a different firmware and UI?

Rudy, correct. But the ISY Lancher looks at that and downloads the right one. They should not be out of synch if you're using the launcher. Here is the link to the correct ISY FW to download for 5.0.16

Rudy Your UI should be the right level if you are using the ISY Launcher. Something it wrong right there. Are you starting by running Start.jnlp only, not admin.jnlp Paul

Rudy Yes, because its a Release Candidate (RC) and not the official release, you have to download it from the site. Scroll down to 3. and pick the firmware that's appropriate for you set up. If you're not sure, respond back with your setup... insteon only, zwave only.. and/or have a smartmeter connected to your isy Paul

Before starting the upgrade, first switch to using the ISY Launcher. It automatically makes sure you use the right UI for any firmware. From that point on, run the ISY Launcher, start.jnlp and not admin.jnlp Paul

Polisy is designed to be a Polyglot platform that comes read-to-go. Meaning you take it out of the box and linux, polyglot and nodelink are there and ready to go with a web config interface. There's no difference in nodeservers, same store, etc. It allows users that don't want to deal with linux, command line, installs, ect. to use V5 and nodeservers. It also has HW options like BT, io ports. UDI has mentioned that at some point in the future it will be the ISY as well... but this is not there or being tested in the "geek batch" Paul

Nano does simple things quickly and simply. If it comes with polisy out of the box, great. If not, I can install it. I'm not planning add other HA tasks to policy, only Nodelink, Polyglot and eventually 994i functionality. There's been a couple of times I've needed to edit the config for Nodelink, I'd primarily have nano ready for that or creating SYSCTL entries... I don't want to relearn VI or emacs, I use them too infrequently. Paul

Ugh. Not 100% sure. That would go beyond the PLM, unless the broken PLM corrupted the data in the ISY, and that was written back out in the restore PLM. I'm speculating more about that then knowing for sure. Paul

Believe me I know how frustrating this is. Literally years of perfect operation, and then something goes sideways. One more problem is a beaconing device. If restore device on the problem devices doesn't make progress, turn on "blink on traffic" in options of one of your devices that supports blink on traffic and you can see easily. If its led is blinking constantly with no pauses, a device has failed or was confused by the replace PLM traffic... another explanation for the slow response Good luck, you'll get it worked out Paul

It depends if the backup is before the PLM started failing, possibly before you noticed. However, there is secondary set of steps if you are down to a few devices. Right click on the device and pick restore device. That should force the new PLM information into the device and delete the old PLM's link. The old PLM's link data being in these devices is one explanation for the several second delay

One thing I've run in to is that the failing PLM "polluted" the Insteon system of record information in the ISY. If you have an ISY backup of prior to the PLM starting to fail; restore that backup... then perform the restore modem Paul

What happens when you manually trigger the scene with the admin console? In the program's then segment, are there other insteon set commands? If yes, is there an at least 2 second wait statement between the set commands? Paul