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Yeh I'm not going for precise room to room control. As you'd expect, the second floor is off a few degrees from the first; direction depending on the season. With the venstar colortouch, 'averaging' could be selected between the stat and the remote. That helped a lot without doing zone surgery to an existing hvac system, other than a few one time adjustments to the registers and paddles in the ducts. This cut down on the "why is it hotter/colder up hear" comments.

I had venlink that led to nodelink for many years at my previous house. I set everything up, and it just worked including integrated notifications through pushover. And to your point, I kind of forgot how I did it. Almost forgot the logins to the rpi. It's hard to see that these programs appear to be fading away. @io_guy has provided this community much and is very responsive and his software did my property a lot of good for a long time. Now I'm starting over at a new house with an eisy. I'm looking at an ecobee, but to @larryllix's comment, I'm not sure what functions I need to automate it with the eisy. The ecobee is very capable on its own. I'll put it and a remote temp sensor in and see where that gets me.

@PGannon - I just got an eisy and have a program to turn on premise lights 30 mins before sunset, and had a similar experience yesterday. I got home and the very simple program hadn't run. When I used the admin console and looked at the programs tab, and then summary sub tab, the program's "next run" was scheduled for the next day, not that day -- and it was well before 30 minutes before sunset. I added a hard time condition in addition to the 30 mins before sunset as I was going to be gone. That ran, and then the "next run" was for the following day (tomorrow) which is right. Not sure why this was necessary, but once I got past the programming running once on hard time, it was fine.

My previous house had older Insteon devices that had been running for a very long time, years. Occasionally link tables in certain devices got 'confused' needed to be restored after running for long periods... especially those on the signal/wire feet edge of the Insteon network. Right click on the device and select "restore device". That helped frequently especially with older devices.

I'm just getting back into the ISY after a few years of not touching it, only using the functionality my old system provided at the house I recently sold. I just got an eisy and have an older w10 desktop in an inconvenient place in the new house. I got it setup yesterday and tried the "cloud" version of VNC to access it as my main device is an ipad. Works well, the usual remote AC eye strain & tweaking fonts and window sizes. After reading this thread, I gave the mobile app a try. It does a lot. Granted my setup is small right now and only a couple of small programs, but it's workable, small changes happen much faster IMO. The only thing during setup that the AC can do that the app couldn't is the Insteon diagnostics. Out of the box, the new Insteon PLM would not be recognized by the eisy, and factory resetting it worked and could be verified on the AC.

@dex Yes it seems like a simple enough requirement, but hard to get to 100% right all the time. For the old insteon motion sensor with a dudk/dawn sensor method, I had it as "on only" during a time window... Once it was on, it stayed on fot the night and didn't react to on until dawn timeframe The either station seems good if it's close enough to the house to be the same conditions

What types of things are controlled in your smart home structure you wish to bring with you? There's to groups of HA enthusiasts; part of the answer depends on which of those you see yourself in and what you are automating: Hands off Automation - you want events to happen on their own by schedule and/or sensor Assistant Automation - you want to tell Alexa, google or your phone to turn something on and it turns devices on or does things. Which of those 2 sounds like what you want to do? If you're looking for the second type 2., that suggests you have relatively low latency internet available, regularly.

@IndyMikeYep thanks, you covered the climate / latitude topic better. Going back to my x10 days i added a photo cell to the 10 io module.. as there were many days the schedule programming did what it was told to do, but missed the right on-time because of clouds. I lost all the notes and emails on that from over 20 years ago about that solution. I do remember that the same circuitry setup would not work on the Insteon version of io module, and was very glad when the last gen Insteon motion sensor came out, it got it right most of the time

@IndyMike Sorry Mike, I wasn't clear about that. In this house I'm sticking with an all Insteon network, and looking for a solution goes "switched on" when it's actually dusk outside. I'll consider the other ways you mentioned. At my previous house I did use io_guys precursor node servers for a few years on raspberry pi's, and then his node link, and then add UDIs geofencing and a few others. That house was older and had old house problems and the ventstar stats I had and programmed in nodelink did a lot for comfort, heat and humidity. That was all good learning, but this house is relatively new and doesn't have the old house problems. This time around I'm keeping it relatively simple and mostly marking a few virtual circuits and adding premise lighting. @elvisimprsntr Thanks and that's sound logic. I did have a setup at my previous house that used time offsets as you're suggesting , but some days mostly due to weather it got darker earlier. The dusk/dawn sensor in the last rev Insteon sensor worked great. There was an ISY dusk dawn program that used schedules but also switched on if the dusk dawn kicked in. I have an idea I looked at in the last few days using an Insteon embedded module and cheap lamppost 110v dusk dawn sensor. It'll either work, or not.. not to much spent if it doesn't

I'm adding Insteon switched premise lighting to my house. I'm looking to re-create the dusk/dawn node capability of the previous gen Insteon motion sensor. The question: Is there advice on getting that capability sensing open/close with a photo cell and/or other parts?

Thanks Geddy and Larry. That helps me figure out how to proceed. I like the familiar: stability, reliability, flexibility and what I know. The node server and portal features were more important on the 994i at my 75 year old last house and there I used io_guy's server to manage comfort / humidity. I'll get a few more virtual circuits going for scheduled exterior lighting control and go from there.

I've not been active for a few years, its best to say new life and new house. My 994I & Insteon devices worked fine for years and sold with my previous house; I left the new owner the email account, passwords, a google doc with basic info and recommendations. I'm starting over from scratch and simply. The owner/builder of my new house wired very atomically with switches galore, so I've been adding a few virtual circuits at a time. I've watched the Insteon business and manufacturing turnaround and it was easiest for me to wire switches in and link manually without a controller. I'm not motivated to leave Insteon's flexibility. But, hey, its me.. relatively soon I'll want a controller. The Insteon hub hasn't changed much capability wise, so it'll be an eisy and a new 2314U. I want to make sure I traverse the 994I to eisy gap successfullY. I read @lilyoyo's eisy questions doc from last December (Thanks, great job). I think I get it but will make a few assertions and hopefully I can get confirmation or corrections: Maybe new product names, but it's the same solution architecture: BSD under the hood, java app on a windows PC that finds the eisy on my (wifi) network? Same tabs device, programs, interface etc? Same basic Insteon device/network config capabilities, network crawl? UDI and Insteon still have as good a relationship as they've had in the past The I3 gap was successfully closed Anything else to know from the past 3 - 4 years?

Like in the past, the white pad to secure the battery on the door gets a little mold on it.... But it never changes and no damage.

I have 3 MS 1s outside, no cover. One of them turns on a floodnight under the deck to keep skunks and groundhogs out. I sealed the side and bottom seems off the front bezel with super glue. The one that covers my driveway was completely covered in ice this winter, don't know why I didn't take a pic. Once it warmed up, it was fine They're been 3 and 5 years old Paul

Hi @Michel Kohanim Yes the backup succeeded. I rebooted the ISY and it came back the same way. The other thing to note is that they are numbered 1 - 20. The assignment seems off in that I would have created certain sets of customizations at the same time as I finished certain activities and they should be in order... most of them are not in a logical sequence in that way. All other tabs at all levels appear to be normal I have a backup from last december and last november. Since I'm on "corona time", I can start later today by restoring those and seeing what happens. Not much, if anything, changed during that time that I couldn't add tweaks back for. Paul

Looked around but didn't find anything specific. I noticed that some of my notifications weren't being sent. The programs ran when they should, but the notifications didn't arrive. When I looked a configuration , Emails/Notifications, Customizations... There are exactly 20, when there should be ~ 4 dozen? Some of the customizations are no longer there. I hadn't opened the admin console for a very long time and many of my key notifications are in the 20 and this problem wasn't easily apparent. Not a big deal to recreate them or get from a backup, just wondering if anyone else had this problem? I've been on 5.0.16, no suffix letter. Paul

A couple of different approaches. 1) The directions assume the new PLM is connected to the ISY properly. To make sure do this: You should get something that looks like this... Is that the case? If no... you'll need to factory reset the PLM, check the connection cables, etc. Respond back if you get "connected" 2) Let's see what your PLM thinks it has... Do this, and post back what you get (you can use the snipping tool in Windows 10, and just paste into a post here) Paul

You could also write a program to query the node(s) but need to define the conditions where you know turning it off is the right thing to do

I believe it should, but consider it an experiment.

Welcome to the UDI forums! I think it will require some experimentation. My experience with the io linc is that needs a solid contact to work, unless you supply the voltage. The iolinc will allow an on/off only at a particular level, not provide variable real time data. The specs for the ezeye say 8 - 20 volts, and the iolinc provides 5. I tried something similar with slip over coils on a hot wire to detect when my furnace turned on... never got it to work. The iolincs indicator glowed based on the varying voltage from the hot. And it work perfectly with and X10 PSC01 Poweflash for a number of years I've used the iolinc with solid contacts just great: garage door, temp sensor and rain guage that provide hard contacts Paul

Hi You have to use the admin console and manually query the node, once the alarm condition has cleared. This is true for all of the nodes that are raised to on. Paul

You have to use the admin console to add devices to the ISY. If both ISYs are on the same physical subnet (example 192.168.1.x), then they both should show up in the finder / start.jnlp and be select-able. If the barn is on a separate subnet you can manually add it to the finder so you can choose between them Paul

This link gets me to HAD on my Android phone, but I replaced my 64 character key with 'x's. You'll need to replace the 'x's with your key. https://my.isy.io/isy/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/USER/WEB/INDEX.HTM Here is another angle to try from your phone: Login to the isy portal From Select Tool, Pick ISY Web access Pick settings from the presented page At the top is "Default UI", Pick "Home Automation Dashboard" - that will bring up HAD In the future, it will remember that you selected HAD, you only have to do that once Paul

I'm not sure its documented anywhere. I figured it out by taking the URL provided in the ISY Portal under Select Tool / ISY information, and then adding the path in the ISY. To save frustration typing it into your phone with a touch keyboard, you can copy that out, paste it in an email, reformat to match my example above, and then send it to your self. Open the email on your phone and click it and book mark it. Paul

How are you trying to access HAD? Use this template URL: https://my.isy.io/isy/<your key>/USER/WEB/watsonia.htm That's a custom page but you can also use index.htm, the default. Recently migrated from ios to a Samsung S10+, it works fine. Paul