paulbates

That sure happens to me occasionally for black-outs and especially brown outs.

Steven- Agree with Larry. I'm an Insteon only user and have been on V5 since last November. Go to 5.04 and plan on staying there until the upcoming zwave changes are made and "shaken out"... eg Do not upgrade to 5.05 when its released. There are a few little bugs but they are livable.. You'll get some error messages starting the admin console. They can be ignored. Also, there are the Control, Status statements in programs.. and Control (old) and Status (old).. Some devices with multiple controllers in them like keypads and EZ Floras need to use the (Old) version. Someday that will be fixed, for now use the (old) versions and move on.. No performance impact, and this kind of thing is expected in the beta. I would migrate to 5.04 and backup as Larry stated. Let programs stay the way they were, then start making changes slowly and make backups. There are new features and nodeservers, these capabilities more than outweigh the few little things to be addressed. Paul

If the noise is significant enough, it can cause component (Capacitor) failure in the 2413 PLM. This is a known problem with the 2413 due to component quality, and was not an issue for the 2412. The diagnostic behavior, when this has happened to me in the past, is that the PLM will start losing links and then eventually fail. Since this is happening repeatedly to multiple PLMs for you, my guess is that something on the powerline is causing the PLM to fail. What you are exactly describing happened to me when using a PLM with Homeseer, not the ISY.

The ISY is currently a respectable second as a primary controller and ahead of homeseer. Good to see, though its hard to tell how random the sampling really is. I believe that there are more actual HS users vs ISY. Given how crazy this market has become, it would be good to see a true randomized sampling of HA users of each of this modified version of the poll by household: Primary Controller (same list + Aduino, Pi, Beaglebone,.., echo,...) Secondary Controllers & Hubs used PLC Primary - I have xxx% (Insteon, Zwave, Zigbee, Lutron, X10,..) PLC Secondary - I have xx% (Insteon, Zwave, Zigbee, Lutron, X10,..) Non PLC protocols used (wifi, BT, IR, ....) All HA cloud protocols (HomeKit, AllJoyn...) All Cloud Integration mashups (IFTTT, Stringify,...) Paul

Going back a few posts, this sounds like there is some kind of significant circuit noise like a motor or a transformer, and possible a filterlinc is not enough. Is there anything with a motor involved near the PLM, filter or no filter? Like a furnace fan, pool pump, sump pump, dehumidifier? I chronically lost PLMs until I installed one of these to the furnace power feed, it clips peak voltages and I stopped losing PLMs. I eventually replaced the furnace with one with an ECM motor and now its no longer needed. https://www.amazon.com/X10-Line-Noise-Reducer-XPNR/dp/B0002M5OIY

I had 2 ezfloras for 5 years, its a great device. I just switched to the rainmachine. You do need the Nodelink program running on a pc or raspberry pi to connect it to the ISY. The rainmachine is easier. You will also have an easier time selling you house with the rainmachine as it will run standalone without the isy, not so for the ezflora. Even though I use the ISY to monitor and manage some of the rainmaichine's functions, it can operate independently on its own. While you can use rainmachine's cloud service to easily remotely access the rainmachine, its not required. The rainmachine can be fully accessed and controlled without it. Ezflora programming was gratifying, but very manual and a lot of work. The rainmachine has a web interface to easily set up sprinking schedules and connect to weather services. The rainmachine didn't exist in 2011, if it had, I would have chosen it. A note for either of these solutions, the terminals for the wires are small on both devices.. you'll want to work with your installer to have a patch panel or terminals installed to connect it to the yard Paul

Alex While this is not something I can directly use, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to document and share something that will help a lot of people. Thank you. Paul

Great, glad you are working, hopefully your yard is good. Paul

Hi John, I get what you are describing, I personally don't miss it in the notification section. There are times am tweaking a new programs and there can be a ton of messages that would flood my iphone notification area, which I typically use for higher level things like meetings, sever weather, travel notifications, etc. If something needs my immediate attention there is a specific sound for it, otherwise I use the app and can look under the appropriate pushover app. This certainly could be requested as a feature in the app to turn on and off. Paul

John I'm personally ok with that. I keep the app open, and have unique sounds for key alerts and prefer for the notifications to tell me about new events. Paul

Brian Its sounds like in this case the XPNR would be better recommendation because they kill high voltage spikes? That has been my experience with them, they prevented PLMs from being killed by motor noise. Paul

You can have them both running simultaneously, provided you have duplicate ISYs, Zwave Card and PLMs. I would treat it as a slow migration from ISY1, which is V4, to ISY2 which is V5. This how I migrated from HS to ISY. Have ISY1 be V4, set all devices and programs up on it. Set up ISY2 as a bare V5 system, no devices or programs. Slowly, over time, migrate groups of things over to ISY2 V5... lets say all of the switches and programs associated with yard lights.. move them at one time as a group to ISY2. Make sure the yard lights and programs work properly on ISY2. Give it time to validate, then do another group. One day, ISY1 has nothing on it and becomes backup gear, and the ISY2 V5 box actually becomes the new PROD. Paul

Probably that's the problem, the iolinc and GDO noise source are too close to each other, if possible plug the iolinc elsewhere. - You could put an insteon noise filter between the GDO and outlet. - I used these XPNRs for the old furnace motors and low voltage lighting transformers: https://www.amazon.com/X10-Line-Noise-Reducer-XPNR/dp/B0002M5OIY They wire straight across hot and neutral, as close to the noise source as possible... if the GDO has wire nuts in the housing, right there, or inside of the outlet they plug into. I've seen other devices here in the forum called snubbers which I believe are functionally the same thing, but a little smaller. I can vouch for the XPNRs, have a number of them deployed. Its very likely that a lightning strike was the culprit, these filters won't help that. Paul

The path out of V4 to V5 will be "organic" and not necessarily an X on the calendar.. Its about risk appetite, and which functions/devices you have that could be legitimately deployed under 5 now? For instance, I moved to 5 and kept everything as is. Then, I set up a node server and moved 1 of 2 thermostats to it. I ran that for for a while till I was comfortable, and then moved the other thermostat. I then changed programs to use new functionality, a little at at time. Break it into pieces, come up with a plan... Lots of backups. My experience for V4 to V5 was nothing like the HS 2 to 3 upgrade, meaning fairly straight forward with a plan. When your other half questions it, you can blame me Paul

Line noise on the circuit from motors in things like GDOs or power tools used in the garage can cause insteon devices to fail. I've had a similar experience with a PLM that was too close to my furnace's fan motor, I had to put filters on the furnace fans, which stopped it from happening. Paul

I would plan on some testing. I'm pretty sure the EZflora is a triac design for AC. I pretty sure that if it would work, it needs to be AC. I would assume it would work 24VAC or lower, not sure though. Paul

Hi Its less about viability and more about what's important to you. My take is that UDI does not budge on quality, versions take whatever they take to get right, given the price point. FWIW, I was a 10 year user of all 3 versions of HomeSeer and switched fully to the ISY 2 years ago, for the positive reasons of the product, this forum and last but not least, UDIs direct involvement. I've been on V5 for 10 months. Using io_guy's Automation Shack software, I'm getting direct benefit of Node Server technology. There are additional Node Servers I'm looking to take advantage of. Also, UDI has healthy commercial consulting and power industry projects to keep them not only stable, but growing. How many "flash in the pan" HA hub like solutions have come and gone in the last 2 years... or are very shallow from a capability standpoint? Since new builds generally have some financial "wiggle room", I would get 2 ISY 994is, and make production, and the other one the backup and V5 test box. Chances are you can move some functionality to 5 now. Paul

It could be a couple of things. 1) Insteon devices can "lose their way" sometimes after being installed. Right click on the keypad in the admin console and select "Restore device" 2) It could be the keypad is going bad... if you put your ear close is it buzzing loudly, any other anomalous behavior 3) It could be communication problems. I would suggest trying 1) and report on 2) because its quick easy to do. See if 1) addresses it Paul

The topic is fascinating...... in a "let others try it first" kind of way

John Here is a sample of adding substitution to resources: http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/19499-pushover-syntax/?p=183270 ${var.2.27} -- this means substitute a variable at that point in the network resource. .2. means its one of the state variables in the admin console. .27 means it is state variable ID 27 on the list of state variables. Unfortunately you can't use the variable's name. ${mod.weather.temp.hi.24h} -- this means substitute something from an ISY module. In this case, I have the ISY climate module, and I want the 24 hour hi temp to be displayed at this point. See my sprinkler picture in my post above to see how it looks in the delivered message. Here are the variable substitution docs in the wiki. You should be able to get started with what's posted above. Paul

Scott- easier to show it as an example with the Pushover mobile app/service. Pushover is an alternative to email/text services. The Pushover app/service gives me a report of my house, organized in different views: Pushover main view for my house: Pushover list of all activities in time order: Pushover view of my garage door messages only: Each pushover grouping (they call it an "app") can have multiple message types in it, this is my sprinkler list The downside is that there is a little bit of a learning curve to get it going. Paul

John, here is one. Pick 'Networking' for the action, then "Resource", then the name of the resource you created that you want to use in the program. That will execute the resource at that point... if it has variable or module substitutions, they will have the values they are when you execute the resource. Sprinkler - 4 - Notify on Dry Area Program Complete - [ID 0038][Parent 0012] If 'Yard / Sprinklers / Hot Zones - Manual ISY' Status is Not Running Then Resource 'Pushover Sprinkler Log - Completed dry areas schedule' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Paul

The advantage of Insteon and Zwave thermostats is that they can be integrated directly into the ISY. I had similar experience with the insteon thermostat that Smokegrub did, but I acknowledge that many, like Stu, have great luck with them. I have the Venstar colortouch series (T7900) which can have commands sent to them from the ISY if you have the network module. To read the temp and status you need an external server to run software to poll the thermostat and "push" the status back into the ISY. I use Nodelink for that. I have 2 thermostats in 2 parts of the house that are very different. One is on the first floor in the kitchen, the other is between the first and second floors in the stairwell. I also have an attic fan and insulated dampers whose actions are coordinated with outside temp and HVAC. Finally, humidity control is big factor for me. We have very dry winters and the venstar t7900 can run the humidifier via the fan and keep the house at an even humidity level regardless of when the furnace runs. It also can use the AC lower the humidity when the temp is ok but the humidity is high. That's been used a lot this year as the out door humidity is high. The features of the T7900 and the amount of control I get using nodelink made it more than worth the extra effort to set up a server to run nodelink. Paul

Hi, I would try removing this statement: And Status 'Porch Light' is not on Also, how does the iphone geofece get set? Is that another program, if so please show it as well Paul

Because my LAN has become more complicated over time and has more management requirements, I run my own router for wifi and local services like DHCP, DNS. I install it behind the ISPs modem or router. I shut off wifi and services in the ISPs router, or have them do it, if it exists. That way the ISP's modem / router can be changed with little, if any, local changes. There have been times when I switch ISPs, or times when the ISP forces a technology change of their equipment. Historically the ISPs equipment has had limited features or they don't work well, I like shopping for my own router from a firewall and LAN/WLAN features perspective. This is a good time to consider this approach. Paul