Michaelv

Yes, I have been down the noise issue rabbit hole. I was a heavy X-10 user before switching over to Insteon. I have had electricians come to the house to double check the grounds and add grounds. I have over a dozen filter Lincs installed, a dozen access points installed, I have removed every CFL and Fluorescent bulb in the house. I have phase couplers installed. I have a power line noise signal meter. I have gone around unplugging noise suspects while watching the meter and putting filters on them then retesting the device. Been there done that. Come to find out that the biggest culprit was coming in from the outside my House as my town had an antiquated power substation with poor and failing equipment. They built a new one a few years ago and my system has become way more reliable. I made up a version of the extension cord thing pictured above. I use that to get my switches into the network before installing them in the wall. My System is 95-99% reliable so I think I have put noise issues behind me. I will try plugging the suspect switch into the same circuit as the PLM and I'll let you know. Thanks

OK, I am spending some time today replacing switches that are bad, so that should clear up some of those red exclamation points and the Failed communication message. I just posted another topic called " Insteon ON/Off Keypads not working properly. Would you mind having a look at that? Thanks

I have over 150 Insteon devices in my network and most the devices go back to 2008 so I get a fair amount of failing switches. I keep extra switches on hand so if one goes down, I can replace it right away. Recently, I had to replace a 5 Button On off switch, Model 2487s with a new switch of the same model I bought in 2018. I linked it to the ISY but when I tested the buttons, none of them responded. How I tested the device was to open the Admin Console, select the button on the switch in the device tree, push the buttons on the switch and look to see if the status on the Admin console changed. It did not. So I tried every button and got the same thing. So, I removed the device from the system. did a factory reset, re-linked it and the same thing happened. No response when I tested as above. So, I thought. I have a bad switch. So I grabbed another brand new switch (Rev. 7.2, same as the other) linked it and tested it. The main button responded as did the A, B and C button. But the D button did not. I tried a device restore. that did not help. so I factory reset it, relinked it and now the C and D button do not work. I can't return the switches as the warranty is up even though they were never used until now. I just had them for back up. Any Ideas? MV

I do but I know that those devices need to be replaced and I just have not gotten around to doing that. I have see the notifications before, but I just have not seen the white boxes with no other message than " Failed Communicating With" then nothing but the OK Button.

Yes, Only Adjusted the runtime memory. I do have one battery motion detector and 6 water leak sensors. I am now able to access the AC with the ISY launcher. Just don't know why I am getting the black warning boxes " can't communicate with" MV

I think I'm all set now. I adjusted the Java Runtime memory and it seems to be loading quickly, but now, after start up, I get these. I've seen these before but they are blue and have the device name that it's not communicating with. Now they are white and don't identify the device. Any Idea? MV

Thanks for all the good suggestions. I can get to the AC but I have to clear the Java cash every time. Did not used to be that way, but I can get there. Made the back up and made the Text back up of the program. I have had the ISY Launcher installed. When you say " I would do it in a flash" do you mean upgrade with the use of a flash drive or did you mean. Like' "In a jiffy"? Lastly, I do not think I have any programs that " Adjust" but I guess I Could do a search of the test file I just made and look for the word Adjust. Thanks Again. MV UPDATE: I did the update and now my UI is the last version I was running. Where do I down load the correct UI and How do I install? MV

Thanks for all the good suggestions. I can get to the AC but I have to clear the Java cash every time. Did not used to be that way, but I can get there. Made the back up and made the Text back up of the program. I have had the ISY Launcher installed. When you say " I would do it in a flash" do you mean upgrade with the use of a flash drive or did you mean. Like' "In a jiffy"? Lastly, I do not think I have any programs that " Adjust" but I guess I Could do a search of the test file I just made and look for the word Adjust. Thanks Again. MV

This is what I am running. And I am not a Z wave user. I see 5.3.0 is the latest official release but it seems a little intimidating about rebuilding networks and so on. Then I see I have to upgrade to 5.0.9 first. Is that the way to go?

For a few months now, I can't launch the admin console. I get this. I have cleared the java Cache, numerous times and still get this. Please help.

Never Mind. I found it. It does not appear in my scene tree that I created but it was available in the programming menu. What does this do? MV

I was watching a video hosted by Steve on creating programs. I saw that he had a program called Query all. The program read something like this: If Time is 3:00:00AM Then Set Scene 'My Lighting' Query he said it was a default program. I do not see a scene called my lighting in my universe. Can some one tell me how to create this scene so it querys properly? Thanks MV

Interesting. When I started the count, it did not start at one. I think it started at 44. Maybe I have too many links? Is there a way to increase capacity in my plm or can I purchase a higher capacity plm? Could I reduce the amount of link by replacing scenes with programs or do programs generate links as well?

The weekend is here and I have time to work with this, As Techman suggested, I did a link count and it was 956, I have attached the file. I would say that 90% of my programs are working. I have about 3 Red Exclamation Marks that I can't clear by restoring and about 15 green 11010 next to my nodes that wont go away. Techman, what can you tell me by the link count table? PLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xmlPLM Links Table.v4.7.3__Sat 2019.09.07 10.43.19 AM.xml

Got it. Rather than the restore devices in the File/restore devices in the main menu. Can you do a restore to more than one device at a time?

Thanks for that. Can you explain what you mean when you say "Restoring all devices other than the PLM". What do you mean by other than the PLM. How do I restore the all Devices other than the PLM?

Well, that didn’t work. If I factory reset the New PLM ( unplug for 30 seconds, hold down set button while plugging it in for 10 seconds) can’t I just do a restore PLM and shouldn’t the ISY just overwrite the new PLM with all the links that will run my programs and scenes before I started having problems? i have an ISY back from two weeks ago, just when things started to get funky, or should I restore the ISY with the next newest back up. Systems been down for over two weeks and you don’t how much you depend on the system until it doesn’t work. Wife is extremely irritated at me, again!

They are the same.

So I restored the ISY and just before it was complete, I got this. Network Configuration Mismatch I clicked ok as the values were the same. See attached.

I am quite certain I did not delete, but did a replace. This morning, I did a factory reset on the Brand new PLM and tried to do another restore modem and let it run while I was at Work. I am able to remote desk top in to see the progress and when I had the Green10111 next to the nodes, I'd right click the and choose " write update to device". I am home now and still programs do not run, timed, double tapped or motion triggered and when I do a scene test, the scene doesn't work and there is nothing, black screen, in the event viewer. I have an older version Back up PLM that I forgot I had and I am going to try to do a restore PLM on that modem.

ok, Here is What I know: From What I could see it was, After the progress bar disappeared, I still had the green icon next to some of the nodes. There were quite a bit. I have over 150 devices on my system. I tried restoring each device individually but when I tried to run programs with those devices in it, they would not run. I am able to left hand tree control devices on the ISY.

Thanks nothing has worked. But I’ll next try techmans procedure.

I did not. I thought a restore to the PLM would do that. I'll try it.

My PLM went dead. Nothing was working, Even LED on the side was not on. Replaced modem Following the instructions found in the forum by ChrisJahn. 1. Unplug ISY 2. Unplug the old PLM 3. Unplug the cable from the old PLM 4. Plug the cable into the new PLM 5. Plug in the new PLM 6. Plug in ISY 7. Login to the ISY and do a "Restore Modem (PLM) Now, none of my programs are working. Double taps, timed events, nothing and I am getting missed heartbeats from all my Leak Detectors. its a brand new PLM I bought last week. Using ISY 994i/IR Pro (1110) firmware V.4.7.3 PLM Info/Status v9E/connected. Any Help? thanks

Creating the scenes are a piece of cake. It is just waiting for the ISY to write the changes. I know about the button in the tool bar that will allow you to do all the programming at once, then you can click the button and the changes are done, but I want to create a scene, then go and test it. it takes a long time to write. And I have over 120 devices in my home. MV