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To techman's point, it's really where the serial to USB conversation happens: In the converter you add to support a serial PLM In the USB PLM itself The world has moved away (mostly) from direct rs232 connections so I went with a USB PLM to not buy another special converter/cable that might have to be replaced later. I have a standard usb cable from eISY to USB PLM. I can't think of a material difference/advantage other than that. Insteon keeps making the serial PLM because there ISY and other serial based users out there somewhere. FWIW the performance of either PLM to the eISY is half (19.k baud) of the speed of wireless devices between themselves (38.4K baud). The point being you'll notice a slight difference in the eisy activating any Insteon device vs Insteon activating another Insteon device via scene (wireless or dualband).

Thanks @theitprofessor. My routers have included VPN servers and I had one set up before i retired from a full time travel job and had a windows work laptop that would allow me to run java. Then the ISY portal was released and used that as a (I think the right term is) reverse proxy... I authenticated to the ISY portal and connected through it for ISY for iox/ac remote access from around the country. I continue to have no open firewall ports to my lan or server to run or keep updated. Around the time I retired I went through a period of ~5 years of mostly just using the things I automated and rarely logged in to my ISY. Then sold that house, pc & the ISY and all the iot. I switched to an iPad Air as my main device.. It doesn't run java and not wiling to jailbreak it. I'm in a new-to-me house and have started all over again (of course 🤪) which is how I ended up on vnc. In this new world I'm using the eisy as an internet appliance and stepping back from server setup, maint, etc for both my ISY and router.. no more ssh, RPIs, servers for now. Iox and Plugins are getting me where I need to go.

Vnc is relatively easy to use for iox/ac. An advantage of realvnc is that it's server module now calls out to a secure login service, like eisy with portal are. Secure login, no firewall ports open on my router.... but it doesn't appear to support a lot of less common os variants. The version of W10 on the current pc that I vnc into is the home version, so no RDP service enabled. Even if I pay for realvnc subscription for a number of years, it's still cheaper than buying yet another nuc/appliance with the version of w11 that supports RDP. (I've not used RDP for many years, so that may have changed)

In my new house, the iox/ac box is an older windows machine that does the job great, but also not in a convenient location and has some shared duties that my wife has and sometimes I wait. I would love to have a minimalist headless box to run windows for the sole purpose of RDP in for iox/ac. I know it's possible to run iox/ac on Linux/BSD/ect if a windows license is not available. I tried that on raspbian at my last house and getting it to work was beyond me.

Resources will not be a problem with my phone... it's more: "why oh why is my phone involved in a conversation between my tv and Alexa?? Not to mention the "privacy invasion" of their apps on the tv and phone. Thanks for the response, I'm going to see how far I get trying to meet simply defined functional requirements given how Samsung software works

Having said that, the function set for Insteon devices is focused, specific. I've been buying them since I think 2006 and never needed a firmware upgrade.

Insteon users cannot firmware update devices. What you're shipped is what you get. I use i3 paddles and an outlet and they all work as expected.

I have an eisy, a portal account and a <1 year old Samsung smart tv. I also have an ecobee t stat that can serve as an Alexa. I have some basic things I want to do, looking for comments from those who have integrated a Samsung tv, Alex and the portal. Trying to keep it as simple as possible. What I want to do: Turn the tv on and off, navigate hdmi inputs I believe this all Alexa and Samsung; the portal and iox programming not required(?) I'd really like to avoid smart things, but doubt I'll get away with that. Is smart things necessary or can Alexa discover the tv on its own? For eisy and portal, I'd like to do the old school theater effects; dim room lights and lamps and bring them up based on on/off spokens to alexa Can Alexa routines be written that detect spokens from Alexa->samsung for on/off and update a variable, run a. Program, etc? My recollection of doing this a few years ago was the other way around.. having an ISY program command something on the Alexa side. If someone's done this and can comment I'd appreciate their experience before wandering through this.

@kzborayI used the recent posts banner on the right side of my browser session, which might be different for everyone, don't know. We can agree that there are anomalies and/or problems with the site, but not that your posts are actively being edited / deleted

Is the same devices though, or a a number of them in multiple scenes and the ones that don't fire?

I take back my last post, and stick by my first one. I see all of your posts and all of the details there on the Insteon forum now. Their forum software is difficult to navigate older posts that you've read sometimes: This first link is where you posted test details: https://forum.insteon.com/forum/main-category/insteon-products/wire-in-devices/micro-modules/micro-on-off/118507-please-disable-all-on-in-fw-for-2443-222-modules https://forum.insteon.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/118508-please-disable-the-all-on-in-fw-for-the-2443-222-micro-module-and-2450-iolinc https://forum.insteon.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/118513-insteon-please-fix-this-devices-id-ed-that-still-have-all-on-in-fw

I had a V572 in my last house and had coax from the attic antenna to the basement equipment shelf. It did work pretty well to catch the Hawkeye/eagleeye triggering (whichever MS was for outdoors)

This is a screenshot was last night when I posted here, I wasn't able to upload a screenshot at the time. I was able to open the posts and see details. And their forum does stop showing you posts in the main view once you've read them... that is the case <strikeout> But..... this morning I don't see the posts </strikeout> *** See my next post, your posts are all still there, its just hard to navigate their forum software in some cases ***

The insteon forum operates differently based on not showing a user posts that they've already seen. I just looked and your posts are all there now with details

One way is to go to each device, factory reset it, and then "restore device" from the admin console, one at a time. I know that can be difficult for some devices, but do the ones you can If I was uncertain as to the devices' link table content, I would do that. (I still have some original lamplics in use for indoor Christmas lights)

Do you have a portal account? If yes, my suggestion is to try the UDM app and see what you think. I still use the console a lot, but I'm implementing a lot too *** having said that, not sure if the portal supports the 99i

I forgot to mention that I use the UDM app also for the basic things I need like adding new insteon devices and basic edits. It works well on the iPad

I do most of my admin console work on an iPad Air Gen 5. I use the secure real vnc app as a remote console, about $3.50 / month

Thanks, I just purchased and installed it

This gave me "flashbacks" to isy_data 🤪😂 Thanks!

That's a good suggestion. When I looked in the store, and went to get hub to see an image of what iox would present, it was sunrise and sunset data only. Sounds like you're saying it also presents month / day info like io_guy's ISY_Data node server used to?

I have programs that report out daily data for a sensor. They calculate and give monthly highs and lows. What I need to do is reset the monthly value variables at the end of the first day of the month. It's been a while since I've done this. I found a post that reminded me that I used io_guy's ISY data plugin at my last house.. but I now don't have/want a pi to run nodelink. From what I can see, I'll have to create program that runs at the start of the day and assign day of the month to a variable from system data If time = 12:00:01am then day_of_month = system data / day of month from the drop down I'll have a second program do what I want If time = 11:59:50pm and day_of_month = 1 then (Reset the variables) Is there a way to do it directly with an if in one program, I feel like I'm forgetting something?

The technology provided by UDI, the company this forum represents, can do those things. There is an ecobee plugin for the eisy controller. It provides numerous data points and programmable controls for the ecobee family of thermostats. I use simple point and click ISY programs to automate it. I have it and have 3 important ecobee integrations for my home programmed with it, so my point is you might want to consider something like the UDI eisy controller and spend more time automating and less time integrating.

+1 I'm a recent yolink convert as well, two 8003 temp humid sensors controlling indoor vent fans For isy programs I had to adjust to their way of thinking in terms of how often they update, but they work consistently once I did. I'm planning my next project for smoke/CO sensors backed with virtualarm monitoring.

Yes.. it's how Insteon is designed.. the ISY programs the links into the switches, then the switches talk to each other and the ISY's role is passive.