paulbates

and... now its back. Look at your portal settings again Paul

Mine has been showing offline on the portal and my.isy.io since about 11est this morning. There's a main window tomorrow morning, so I don't think its that. Paul

jimmyban is correct. Should the "If" statements cease to be true, the program exits while in a "Wait" Another solution is to configure the motion sensor from the admin console to "Send On Commands Only" and handle the off condition with a "Wait".. (would need to see your program posted to be more specific) You have to go to the motion sensor, open it and press the set button to get it in linking mode to make the change Paul

To follow up on Teken's comments: If you have the devices in statements in a row in your program... If its dusk then Set A off Set B off Set C off Set D off Set E off ... then that is is problem. Each switch sends an acknowledgement back to each command, and that message collides on the power-line with the next program statement commanding the next switch. If this is how its setup, put the devices in a scene as Teken recommends. (You can also put a wait 2 seconds statement between each line, but the scene is a better solution) Insteon switches do attempt to correct acknowledgement misses, but eventually give up and that explains the different results on different runs of the program Paul

IIRC, you recently replaced your PLM (?). Were the the insteon devices all updating the ISY after the replacement, or you're not sure? If you're not sure, then its possible that the ISY had a polluted copy of PLM links from the bad PLM in its own database when you replaced the PLM. Performing a "Restore Modem" when you replaced the PLM would have then recreated the bad link info in the new PLM... and explain the problem you are seeing. The fix is to a restore an ISY backup from a time prior to when the PLM failed. Restore that ISY backup, then, Restore Modem again. Paul

Here you go. Floodlights Defeat If 'Kitchen / Backdoor.Outside' is switched Fast On Or 'Kitchen / Basement Door.Outside' is switched Fast On Or 'Kitchen / Doorwall.Outside' is switched Fast On Or 'Yard / Premise Lights / Back Floodlight' is switched Fast On Then Set 'Yard / Premise Lights / Floodlights On' Off Disable Program 'Floodlights' Wait 6 hours Enable Program 'Floodlights' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Yes, if already out there, absolutely Paul

My floodlight set up is like yours, and there are 3 keypad keys in different areas can also turn them on or off. I detect 'double tap' on or 'double tap' off on the floodlight keys with an ISY program to suspend the motion activation program (or turn it back on). The double tap program has a Wait timer in it too, after so many hours, turn motion activation back on. Paul

The other factor with a 2412 of that age is compatibility. I believe that it would not support the newer i2, i2cs protocols that the switches probably require. i2, i2cs are relatively newer insteon protocol features Paul

I get what lilyoyo means. I have some large, similarly functioning device groupings. Rather than dupe Everything, I have a large core scene, and then a smaller "accessory" scene with the additional items. A program sends the core scene at some points, and at other points, both scenes back to back. Not really noticeable when thought through and cuts down on link count and often reduces update time. Paul Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Unless you have hundreds of insteon devices and big scenes already and are out of links, insteon scenes are designed for this purpose and are the best way to accomplish group activities. Other things to know: All On / Off is not limited to light switches. Io_lincs, for example, will trigger from an All On / Off Due to "false" triggering, Smartlabs has been removing the All On/Off features from newer switches in the past few years, so newer devices will not respond. Paul

Before doing that, pick one MS, put it in linking mode and then use Restore Device for it from the console. Retry it a motion test. Paul

The first thing to do is address the 1011 next to the switch. Right click on the device in the Admin Console and pick Write Updates to Device

The best manual linking software I've seen is Mark Sandler's Insteon plugin for homeseer. Very granular management of the insteon network. It also uses a serial IP like interface to utilize the hub (local api) as the PLM. If you're savvy with .net development, that's a possibility. I don't know if HS tackled MQTT, that would have to be explored on HS forum. I found the ISY an easier path to fast, stable automation of functions, so its about tradeoffs. Paul

Look at the nodelink subforum. Nodelink (on a pi and isy v5) will syslog out for its supported devices, and its isylogger node will send isy variables and program statutes to syslog.. having said that it is not a general syslog facility where you dice and slice what you want to log. But, it's worth investigating. Another angle: A few years ago Xathros documented writing from network resources directly to a syslog file. Very clever. Look at post 4 http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/16861-isy-log-on-ios-or-web/?p=149308 Paul Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do the 2 steps in the bullets, then do some tests to see what's working Sometimes with restore PLM there are a couple that need to be manually restored... but determine by testing showing the ones that didn't come back properly Paul

NO - do not use delete PLM. It will remove all links from your insteon network in addition to your plm. If you don't have a backup to restore to your ISY , and then restore PLM from that..... you can rebuild your scenes by removing and adding the devices back in. You can "Click and select" groups of individual devices at a time... drag them out of the scene.. and then click and drag them back into the scene Paul

Do you have a recent backup from before the problem started? Sometimes the ISY can receive bad, incomplete information from a dying PLM, and the restore PLM puts that incomplete info back. Restore a recent backup, and retry the restore PLM Paul

Did you get a new router / change internet service? Paul

LOL.

Correct... and that's different than "open mic". In other words only when Alex 1) was addressed or 2) mistakenly thought she was addressed. The 2)s are few and far between for us. Paul

The table saw was controlled by an outletlinc

And quite honestly mine was an "icing on the cake" thing. I got the Dot at ReInvent last year. Hooked it up for fun. Because I had the ISY, Venstars and Harmony already, hooking it up was a no brainer. Its handy to turn on far away things like the attic fan and room lights on in the morning. But if I didn't have it. I've pretty much stopped using flash briefing, etc. We play jeopardy every now and then. I played with Alexa smart home groups with the ISY and it comes across to linear / kludgy when mixing. Paul

Agreed. I've watched min with my router - with and without prompting. I've even tried the "yelling at it" method. Paul

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