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No, I'll try this later today. I wanted to get a replacement moving asap, because I am running a Bed&Breakfast and really need my lights on And some of the lights are controlled with wired in devices that cannot be accessed easily to operate them manually. If I don't need the replacement, I'll keep in on the shelf, just in case. I know I can restore the backup. But I would prefer just to swap the SD-cards, then I can be sure to have the most recent programming. And I am 8 hours away from home right now, so I can't play with it myself.

Hi all, my isy994i is blinking, Tried to reseat the SD-card, tried to insert a new one. Still blinks. Assuming that the device is malfunctioning, I have ordered a replacement device. Now my question is: Can I simply move the SD-Card from the old ISY to the new one? Or do i have to restore a backup? The backup that I have is not too old, but I still might lose some changes I made. Thanks for your help!

Ah - makes sense. Thanks, stu!

Those range extenders - why do they have a set button?

Thanks, Michel! I'll do that, but I would prefer to cover as much as possible today, because I am only once a month at the Inn and I have to leave town tomorrow. I can access the ISY remotely, but as soon as I have to physically do things, it will be difficult. Lee, I am not converting the hub. The hub is removed, the isy is installed and all devices were added using the delete links-option. Sorry for not being clear. There is no green 1011 icon next to anything. So the devices should have their correct status, right? No wiring issue on the fan. It worked great with the hub. The fanlinc, though, was one of the devices with comm problems. Is there a way to force an update on all devices? I'll try the event viewer, thanks.

Hi all, I need some help. I am upgrading my hub installation to the ISY. I could add pretty much all my devices, create my scenes, write my programs, setup port forwarding and get MobiLinc up and running. So far, so good. But I seem to have communication problems. Some questions: 1. Occasionally, when writing to a device, ISY complains "cannot communicate". The device is then marked with a red symbol. When I select "query" on that device, the red symbol disappears. Does that mean the write was successful? Or did I just remove the error flag? 2. Randomly, some devices do not respond to a scene command. 3. I have setup a fanlinc with a keypadlinc. The scenes do not start the fan. The Lamp is coming up after a while, though. Setup should be okay, see attachment. (Lamp is not connected to the KPL load wire) 4. I was trying to improve communication with 2 Access Points (#2443). Apparently I can not add them to the ISY - it only says unsupported device. Is this true? I also could not find a matching line in the "Device Type"-Dropdown in the "New Insteon Device"-Window. Are they really not supported? 5. I did the 4 tap test and found pretty much all devices (that I can see, some are in boxes or behind the wall) on one leg. Only one device was on the other leg. Some were not responding at all. What does that (no response) tell me? 6. Is there an easy way to troubleshoot communication? Like the houselinc function that pings all devices 100 times and shows successful replies? Or where do I start? Thanks for your help!

I know, it might shorten their life a little, Well, I have some dimmers laying around, but i would have to purchase new switches. So I rather take the shorter life than having to buy switches now and replace them with dimmers in a year or so. The idea is by the way to make the ISY send a "turn off" to the porch lights at 10p and then act as a 15 min timer till sunrise. My guests go out for a smoke and forget to switch off these lights all the time, so they are sometimes on day and night. They will do much better on the dimmers than right now

Great idea! But right now I would be happy just to get everything up and running without installing a gremlin that turns all the lights on in the middle of the night.

Understood. If it was about me, I would not even bother. But I know that rather sooner than later one of my guests will decide to play with that fancy switch

Thank you! That should be easy! I plan to do the migration from Hub to ISY this weekend in a running Bed&BBreakfast, that's why I want to be as prepared as I can be.

Hi all, is there a way to write a program that makes a dimmer behave like a switch? Either full on or off? Like when you try to dim it up, it jumps to full on, when you try to dim it down, it jumps to off? I have some porch lights with non dimmable cfls and I want to use them till they burn out and then replace them with dimmable LEDs. So I don't want to buy switches anymore. Thanks for your help!

Hi Paul, thanks for your thoughts! I will follow the recommendation and start from scratch. My events are simple time and sunset - based on/off events, the scenes are already created and the Programs are already done and seem to work as they should. I just need to add the devices to the ISY and to the scenes. I feel well prepared and I know you guys are here if something comes up. I alredy have screen shots of my houselinc configuration (Devices with insteon adresses, Scene member lists and event schedules), thanks Eric. I looked at z-wave-thermostats, but considering the fact that I have a long distance to the other house and no other z-wave-devices to relay the communication, I think I would run into range problems. I think I will give Venstar a try. Thanks to all!

Thank you Steve! I'll send you an email a little later today. For now, I'd like to keep this discussion open too. From what I have read, I know there are some skillful people here and hope for some ideas. I don't mind doing the installation from scratch, it is not that much. The thermostat question was the more important one. Can you elaborate this a bit more - what is a "insteon wireless communication adapter"? And which thermostat can connect to it? I could not find a word about insteon on the Venstar website, but I know they can connect to wifi and offer their own tool to control the thermostats. This would be an option if everything else (with the ISY) fails. Those sensors... As said, I have a Bed&Breakfast, which means I have people goofing around with my stuff all the time. They unplug the refrigerator for their cell phone charger (ignoring the empty receptacle right next to it) and then complain about warm soda... And my wife would kill me when I start installing those ugly IO Lincs with sensor cords in our 1802 Victorian. I'd like to have something that I can glue behind a sink or under the bed frame. As long as it is Insteon, I have no problem with the distance. This would only be a concern with for example Z-wave Thermostats.

Good morning all, I am running a fairly simple, but spread out insteon installation im my Bed and Breakfast. About 40 devices, 7 scenes, 5 events, but in 3 buildings on 2 power meters. The houses are about 100 ft away from each other. Most of the devices are easily accessible, some are hard to get to. The plan is to migrate from hub/houselinc to ISY to be able to use Variables and programs to better control the behavior of each house based on occupancy and weather. To get me started, 2 questions: 1. Do I have to rebuild everything from scratch or is there a way to export / import something, like the devices? Have not seen anything on the hub or in houselinc that looks promising... 2. I am using Insteon Thermostats in 1 of the houses (3 apartments). They work great, but don't support heat pumps, which is what I have in the other two houses. We are not in the Inn in the winter and our staff runs the place. Unfortunately they tend to keep the heat on 75 all winter long, whether we have guests or not. You should have seen my power and propane bills It is essential (!) to I find heat pump compatible thermostats that I can read and control remotely, if at all possible with ihe ISY. The ISY will be located in one of the houses with 2 heat pumps, so there will be 2 thermostats. The other house just needs one, It is probably too far away for radio communication, but it is on the same power meter and it has the same wired and wifi network. Any suggestions for thermostats and how to establish communication to the thermostat in the other house? Thanks for your thoughts! Oh - another question: Are there affordable wireless and battery operated temperature sensors out there? I'd like to maybe install them in the crawl space or tape them behind sinks in the bathrooms to be notified when the temperature gets very low.