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Interestingly, I've viewed Home Assistant as the "single pane of glass". Also it seems to support Lutron: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/lutron_caseta/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homeworks/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/lutron/ Of course, the ISY is also supported by HA, in addition to Z-Wave, Insteon, etc.

This is key news for me -- thank you! Can you tell me a little bit more about your 3-way setups? What kinds of switches? Did you just use the same models for the "remotes" as Insteon does, or did you use different remote (control-only, no load) models?

I would not be opposed to using Zigbee, particularly if it solves the 3-way switch problem. Wifi sure seems like a terribly poor fit for HA though, and the lack of a standard for "what protocol do you use over wifi" is even worse. I do not want 10 different apps all hooked in to some cloud service that requires Internet and Google. I really like that my ISY setup makes the house feel like a regular house. I don't have to use a phone to control it; I have switches and panels that are much more convenient.

Did you have any Insteon 3-way switches, and if so, how did you deal with those in Z-Wave? AFAICT, every Z-Wave device communicates with exactly one controller, so if you have a 3-way in Z-Wave, it will communicate with its partner but NOT the ISY or something. Is that accurate? Somewhat different to Insteon where devices could be part of an arbitrary number of scenes.

I did search before posting. I didn't turn up useful results, particularly for my desire to have the switches able to link directly (in a virtual 3-way), but then the search here is sub-optimal. I'd be happy if you have any links to share!

Good points. HA as an ISY frontend could be perfect. As far as "how do you know" - we had a storm in the area last week. We have power flickering. After that, I had to replace the power supply for my ISY-994i and the PLM stopped communicating. I moved the PLM to a different room (away from my utility room where I also have my network switches, etc.) and that seems to have helped, but I strongly suspect I've got a problem with it that may or may not be the standard caps.

So I'm trying to figure this out too. My PLM is on its last legs, but I have tons of devices in my house - virtually every switch, love the keypads, etc. What to replace with though? Z-Wave? Zigbee? Something else? Things I like about the Insteon: - It works over the power lines, so my shed is integrated into the system also (though I could conceivably place a second Z-Wave dongle or something there) - The switches pair with each other for scenes, so dimming/etc doesn't require the controller (not sure if Z-Wave/Zigbee can do this). I've used this a lot for 3-way type setups. - I have a number of Insteon keypads that I really like. I may stick with the ISY, may go with Home Assistant (I'm a Linux programmer anyhow, and I've used HA to do a simple setup at a remote site). I wouldn't limit my search to ISY, but ISY compatibility is nice-ish. I have some Z-Wave already (locks and thermostats mainly) but I wouldn't want that to be a limiting factor. Ideas?

I wound up rebooting the ISY, which appears to have cleared this up for now. I have read on occasion others reporting programs not running until the ISY is rebooted; frankly I'm rather concerned about this... Incidentally the state of things has changed since reboot on all these programs.

Hi Xathros, Good suggestions. 1) I know it's not in a folder with conditions, since no folder in its tree has conditions. I double-checked this just now. 2) All of my programs use += 1 to modify the state variable, rather than = 1, so this should avoid that problem. 3) It's not disabled. Here, in fact, is another program that has the same issue: If Status '2nd Floor / Master Bedroom / Zone2 Thermostat' is Fan - Off Then Wait 2 hours $Thrm_Zone2_Fan_Long_Idle += 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') And here's what it looks like in the Programs - Details view: And here's what it looks like in the Programs - Summary view: Since this is directly polling a Z-Wave thermostat, and the system is showing the Fan is Off, and the program is True, why is the program still idle? (Yes, the program is Enabled!)

Hi folks, I've been using my ISY-994i (v4.2.18) for awhile, and am having some issues with some simple programs not working. For instance: If $Thrm_ZoneK_Has_Stopped_AwayAsleep_Today is not 0 Then Wait 6 hours $Thrm_ZoneK_Has_Stopped_AwayAsleep_Today = 0 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Now, $Thrm_ZoneK_Has_Stopped_AwayAsleep_Today is a state variable. I can see it set to nonzero values by other programs, and this program still doesn't run. In the Program Summary tab, it shows the program state is true but the last run time is empty, and in the Program Details tab, it has a "half green / half white" icon, and the program is enabled, but it doesn't run. I finally had to add, to a different program, this: "Run Program 'ZoneK Reset Today AwayAsleep' (Then Path)" which finally causes this program to run. What am I missing here? I also have another program that controlls a Z-Wave appliance relay switch. It is simply this: If Status '2nd Floor / Master Bedroom / Curling Iron Power Switch' is On Then Wait 45 minutes Set '2nd Floor / Master Bedroom / Curling Iron Power Switch' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') The idea is to switch off the curling iron if it was forgotten on. The log shows the Z-Wave communication is working fine. However, this program only even bothers to start running about 20% of the time. I also tried it with the condition "is switched on" instead of "is on", but that didn't help, either. (Either option is acceptable to me in this scenario.) I've tried rebooting, but that hasn't helped. Any ideas?

One thing I will say - it is a repeater, but its radio/antenna is not nearly as good as the Aeon switch that I bought specifically to use as a repeater (it's cheaper than Aeon's repeater-only device, somehow!) The range is probably 1/3 to 1/2 of that of the Aeon switch. Perhaps that's because it can only draw so much current from the 24VAC line? I don't know. Anyhow, I found that I still needed the Aeon switches around. They let my motion detectors work reliably instead of intermittently, despite the fact that it's about twice as far away as the nearest thermostat!

I don't have any secure devices, no door locks, so I can't check directly. I can give two somewhat contradictory hints: one is that the Trane thermostats seem to sometimes be co-branded by Schlage. The other is that there is no mention at all of its repeater capabilities in the manual, let alone secure repeater capabilities.

Yes, in case I wasn't clear, I was responding to the Mobilinc question.

I see options to change: System mode: Heat/Cool/Auto Fan: Auto/On And the temperature setpoint. It also reads out the current temperature in the room.

I'm just a day or two into it, but so far quite happy with this stat. Really my only gripe is that I cannot remotely command it to call for heat (I can change the setpoints, but I can't say "turn on the furnace now, even if your setpoints say you shouldn't need it.") Ah well, there are probably good reasons for that anyhow.