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I use a Controlinc for turning things on and off at my bedside. Recently the unit would stop working for no apparent reason. Power cycling the unit would make the device usable for a time, but the usable time has become shorter and shorter to the point where the device is unusable. i opened up the device and noticed heat marks on the PCB around two components pictured. Does anyone know what exactly what these components are and where i can find replacement parts to repair the Controlinc? Thanks.

I just ran across this post. There are many IP to serial converters on the market, from single board modules you attach a wall wart power supply to and connect your network via network cable. These are available from Fry's or Jameco and run about $35. FWIW, I used about 3 of these boards for a similar application with the Network module without any issues.

Thanks for all the replies. Good to know that the alarm sensor states can be used by the ISY programs directly.

I purchased an ELK M1 alarm system which I plan to install in the new year. The alarm system will be outfitted with its own complement of motion and door sensors. With Insteon and ZWave motion and door sensors available, what makes the best sense for installing in the house? Are the sensors attached to an ELK panel visible to the ISY in real time when you purchase and install the ELK module? Are those sensors available to be used in scenes or programs? Or, is it better to use the Insteon or ZWave sensors in parallel with the ones already used by the alarm system? I noticed that some security alarm systems use ZWave sensors now. Is it better to go that route and integrate that type of alarm with ISY?

I am in the same boat, having just installed the ZWave board. I would suggest that for every device you add, you explicitly disassociate the device from the any ZWave network before you add it. Sounds funny, but every device I tried adding did not register with the ISY controller until I did this.

Thanks, Teken.

Does anyone have the jumper setting information for this early version motion sensor? My understanding is that the jump setting definition changed going from v1.x to 2.x. I have a MS v 1.1. Thanks.

EZX10RF converts your wireless X10 signals to an Insteon command sent to an Insteon device you map the X10 command to. It's useful for applications like Homelink, where you want to either activate a scene, run a program or toggle an Insteon device triggered by the wireless X10 command. If you have a X10 motion sensors, it's a cheap way of checking occupancy in any area of your home.

I'm using an EZX10RF X10 to Insteon gateway. Sometimes, I add a node to the device tree for a specific house and device code that doesn't work right. Is there a way to get rid of these nodes without getting rid of all the nodes under the gateway device? This would be very useful. Right now, I just mark the wonky node 'unused'.

Thanks for all the feedback, especially your post, paulbates. This was very helpful. I should clarify my post. I have an ISY994i, not an ISY99i. Hopefully my error is useful to some who actually have an ISY99i.

I think a list of the Insteon devices added to the list of ones supported would be useful. Also, it would be most useful to provide a brief explanation of how the security enhancements are useful to the average user, with any instructions on how to use them, if they are not transparent to the user. I understand many of these enhancements are improvements to assist the developer/integrator community. But where relevant, some of this information is useful to general ISY users too.

Is there any sort of abbreviated summary of functional improvements and bug fixes between major ISY firmware releases? From what I can see, the list of changes is summarized by each incremental release, and it pretty granular.

I picked up one of these thermostats at a good price recently. I did a search in the forums to see if there are any issues with this thermostat and ISY-99. Are there any major issues currently to be aware of as it relates to using this version thermostat in an ISY-99 setup?

Can someone provide some information as to what the Schedule button does? Can one modify the existing schedule programming built into the thermostat? Or, can one obtain the scheduled programming information from the thermostat to create ISY programs that don't get overridden by the thermostat's own programming if the thermostat is left in the Program mode? Which thermostats and/or interfaces are supported with this functionality? Thanks.

I have a 2441V thermostat adapter, v2. Before posting this question, I checked the Wiki and found no reference to this button. Can you point me to the page where I can read about this? If the button is not supported for my particular setup, would it make more sense to disable or hide the button, or throw up a context specific error message which indicates this functionality is not supported for the device selected?

Hi there, I noticed in the latest UI/Firmware version installed that there's a new button called "Schedule" which appears under the Thermostat device adapter node. It doesn't function for me; I get a subscriber no reply error when the button is pressed. What's the function of this button?

Thanks everyone. LeeG, thanks for the pointer about running on Windows. I tried the same reference to /rest/programs in Firefox and obtained more complete information. I'll bet others were scratching their head about what I was talking about! Takeaway: Don't use Safari for communicating with the REST interface interactively on a Mac.

How did you get the program ID associated with the folder/program? I viewed the raw output returned from /rest/programs using the Mac's TextEdit program. I only saw the name of the folder or program.

I also tried resolving the space in the name to its hex value. That did not work: https:///rest/programs/My%20Programs 404 error returned.

I have my programs in ISY organized in a folder structure like this: My Programs Program Folder A (name with spaces) Program Subfolder A (name with spaces) I can make a call successfully like this: https:/rest/programs The url returns a list of the top level programs and folders after login. I can also make the following call successfully: https:/rest/programs?subfolder=true The url returns all the programs and folders in icy What I can't do without getting a 404 error is this: https:/rest/programs/My Programs I've tried the possibilities: https:/rest/programs/MyPrograms or https:/rest/programs/"My Programs" All to no avail. What am I doing wrong? The documentation doesn't seem to cover this. (Page 57 for v4.0.5) 404 errors are invalid reference errors (e.g. dead link, bad link reference)

What are the common ways people are using a Remotelinc for thermostat control? I think I see two ways for doing this: - Create a scene which includes the Remotelinc as controller and the thermostat as the responder. I can see how this might work for the Remotelinc's On button. But how do you program what the Off button does? - Create two scenes, each adjusting the temperature to a specific setpoint. Create a program to call one of the scenes when the Remotelinc's On or Off button is pressed. Which is the better way to call for heat or cooling, and to revert back to the scheduled program when requested?

Thanks, oberkc.I forgot about this detail. Setting the ramp rate on the responder with the controller in the scene selected enabled me to adjust the ramp rate on the light when the remotelinc on button was selected.

I picked up a Remotelinc last night and added it to my setup. I created a scene consisting of the Remotelinc and one Keypadlinc dimmer. The light is toggled on and off by the Keypadlinc - the light turns on and off instantaneously, but scene adjustments to the ramp rate and level don't seem to take. I can set up a ramp rate of 4.5 seconds and the light still comes on instantaneously. Restarting the Keypadlinc has no effect. Is there some special procedure for programming this with the Remotelinc?

I'm interested in integrating control of everything in ISY with all my A/V stuff, along with iTunes/Airplay. Does anyone have any suggestion for the best remote for this purpose? I've tried Roomie, but didn't particularly like the integration with ISY supplied with it - seems rather primitive, not sure how to call programs and such. It would be nice to be able to pull/poll state information about Insteon devices, ala a dedicated app like Mobilinc Pro, while adding the traditional universal remote control stuff that Roomie or something similar provides.

Just installed the EZX10RF device on my Insteon network. Works like a charm with ISY-99. Those previously unreliable Hawkeye motion sensors now generate reliable ON and OFF codes. I've used my surplus stash of these motion sensors now to detect occupancy in a room. Glad I didn't get rid of these motion sensors - they're now truly usable. Thanks Lee for the info.