Kevin Connolly

Good tip! Would the "test address" account for a device working for a while than fluttering and locking?

Just lighting is attached...and none are dimmers. Also, I'm running 4.0.5 firmware and 4.2.8 UI. Is it appropriate/common practice to factory reset devices as you add them to your system?

I've had a few dual band devices that the lights seem to flutter and than the device locks. Seemingly, this type of question would seem more appropriate for the Insteon forum, but since my ISY writes to and controls devices through programs, I thought I'd start questioning things from the ISY. As background, the device that locked today was a KPL. On a level 3 check it consistently shows up as a one hop device (max hop=3, hops left=2). So the question than is:Is there anything that I could check on the ISY, in it parameters,that someone has found through experience that I should either turn on or turn off?

Let's, for now chalk it up to a bad day for me. As usual, my day starts by letting the dog out, turning on the kitchen lights, getting some juice, letting the dog in, turning off the lights, and than getting ready for work. All went well up until the turning out the lights part. I really didn't get to play with it until I got home. I got it back up and running with a soft reset. I really didn' have any device issues until I added a Remotelinc and a Keypadlinc. I went to remove the Remotelinc and things went haywire again. I disabled the Remotelinc and did a hard reset of the affected Switchlinc. It now seems to be working fine....but I'll keep my eye on it.

I thought I'd post here in lieu of Smart home thinking that you guys will be straight up with me. In the past week or so I've had three separate Switchlincs go flaky on me in a new installation. Currently, I have 11 devices so that equates right now to a 30% failure rate. The issue this morning and current problem is that a Switchlinc devices paddle stopped working and just the paddle. It still seems to work through my phone and other linked devices. I've spoken to Smart home and they're sending me a new unit...but the bigger question is the experienced failure rate. The second question than is can you mix and match Z wave devices with Insteon devices through the ISY (assuming I have the ISY Z wave board and module)

I took two screen shots on my phone, but there no way I can see to attach them here. If you have a direct email address I could send them to you. To answer your question...I don't know. Geohopper is a geofence application. it has a space to provide a URL and specify GET or POST. There's another similar application, geofancy, that does the same thing. I somewhat shied off geofancy because I couldn't pin down whether the developer was in the Netherlands or Australia.

The application I'm trying to use is Geohopper on an iPhone. Bear with me, because as far as coding and such goes, I'm pretty much on the Dr.Seuss level. Would the following work? GET /rest/nodes/99999/cmd/DON \r\n HTTP/1.1\x0D\x0AHOST: 192.xxx.x.x\x0D \x0AAuthorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=\r\n\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A or do I place the (\r\n)'s somewhere else? and will this work for Https? ...and thank you, btw, for the help! You'd think that with the prevalence of mobile devices and such that the correct command would be easy to find where all a knucklehead like me had to do is switch out a few things.

So I tried my own suggestions above in a web browser only to be informed by Google search that it couldn't find a match to the string, soooo?

I found this simple code to turn on a SwitchLinc somewhere on the internet (don't ask me where). it utilizes admin:admin encoded for username and password. GET /rest/nodes/99999/cmd/DON HTTP/1.1\x0D\x0AHOST: 192.xxx.x.x\x0D \x0AAuthorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A So my questions than (assuming the above will work) is: Do I kick off the command with https://? and do I append the IP with the port number (ie. 192.XXX.X.X becomes 192,XXX,X.X:443?

I guess I just need to do more reading. So all I need is the starting point (for a Noon) to learn how to specify ALL the parameters needed to set an event trigger, such as a Geofence or an iBeacon. I tried Https:<username>:<password>@ipaddress:port/rest/nodes/<node>/cmd/<cmd>...or something like that. It worked fine in my web browser but not in the geofence app I want to use (the app supports GET and POST). I' m not exactly thrilled with the success of my web browser experiment either. Something just strikes as wrong to be sending the username and password as I was doing. I read something about encoding, but it wasn't written for a Noon so... Any help would be appreciated.