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So this morning I tried again, The admin Console loads up but gives an error "I/0 Error Proxy Device". I can turn ON/OFF the couple of switches I tried, but it does not display the current status of any device and all the switches I checked show the initial level as 0% and the Ramp Rate as 9 minutes. So its like it cannot read the current status and settings. Any ideas?

Gary, That does sound a bit strange. I don't have mine setup for remote access... no do I have anything fancy like Smart speakers. Just a few Insteon switches and keypads. I haven't done an update of the ISY firmware for a while. ISY finder reports I'm running firmware 4.6.2

Sorry guys, I was typing the fist sentence of my new topic and suddenly it posted to the forum! Fat fingers I guess.

I know there is likely another posting that cover's this, but after 2 hours of searching and trying things I still can't find my issue. Please bear with me, I've had an ISY99 now upgraded to an ISY994 that has been working fine for a few years... and still is. I haven't done anything with it for the past couple of years while battling cancer. The treatments has left me with "chemo brain" that messes with your memory and desire to even get things done. Anyway, I finally got around to adding a couple more keypad switches. When I try to get into the Admin Console to set them up and program them, I get as far as logging in and it starts loading... then flashes a couple of switches that are now dead... then I think an error and the program crashes. The fact that I get into it and I get past the log in says to me I'm connected and into the ISY. It crashes while loading the devices, or maybe checking their current state. I've checked the Jave version and it is up to date. The only thing I've changed is my virus software, but I get into the ISY so I don't think its that I can get into the ISY Dashboard but it locks up so I was able to get a screen capture of the errors. Any ideas?

Finally did a factory reset on both. One restored fine, but the other reported "Cannot communicate" I tried several times with no luck. I then did a second factory reset, but same error on restore. Looks like I'll need to replace that switch.

Yes, they are both set as Controllers in the Scene. They show up as Red in the Scene, which I understand means its a controller. I have buttons B, C, and D set on each switch as preset Dim levels and those buttons work on each switch. Only the Main button won't trigger the Main button on the opposite keypad. Thanks

Yes, I created them using the ISY admin console. For each Main button I set the ON level at 100% and 2 second ramp for both switches in the scene.

I've searched the forum and cannot find an answer to my issue. Sorry if this has been covered, please link me to that post then. I have two 2334-222 keypads (8 button) which I have linked together in a Scene to form a 3-way switch. One switch powers the light, while the other has no loads on it. I have several buttons on each for dimming levels (B=80% , C=60% etc) and these buttons work fine and as expected from either switch. The Main buttons I would like to have set as 100%. The Main button works on the switch powering the lamp, but not on the other switch. The Main button lights up on the other switch, but nothing happens on the controlled switch powering the lamp. I have several rooms setup the same way and none of the unloaded Main switches will activate the loaded main switch. If I use a single switch dimmer as the second switch the Main button will control it or ice versa. How do I make the Main buttons on a keypad control another main button? or is there some reason this cannot be done? OPPS! edited, they are 8 button keypads. Thanks

oberkc, the ping-pong SWL is part of the scene LeeG, I'll check the firmware version. This was my first room I did using the Insteon switches, so they are more than 5 years old. They could be an eary version, thanks.

Not sure if I am putting this question in the correct forum area... but here goes. I have a rather large rec room with about thirty 50w pot light controlled by 6 SWL dimmers, each dimmer powering about 5 lights. These SWL's are hidden in the utility room out of sight. There is one 8 button KPL as a controller doing the scenes and a second KPL with each button controlling a single SWL. I have the scenes working fine with the Scene KPL being a controller and the second KPL being a responder. Each scene button controls the each SWL to a certain lighting level with the second KPL having its buttons set to ON or OFF depending on whether its light group is ON or OFF. Then I have the second KPL with each button as a controller under under its own scene with its SWL. That way I can turn individual light groups ON & OFF and this works too. But when I press for instance the "watching TV" scene, the ping-pong table lights are OFF, but the second KLP "G" (Ping-pong table lights) button will come ON, even though in the Scene setup, that button is OFF. Looking in the Admin Console, it shows that button as OFF but it is definitely ON! Basically turning any Scene ON will turn on all the buttons on the second KPL whether that buttons lights are ON or not. Can anybody give me some direction here? Thanks!

Lee, Youare correct, i did set the keypad A button as a Controller. I'll try again as a responder! thanks

Ok, I tried adding a button from Keypad "A" to the Keypad "B" scenes, however it just seemed to add another "overall" scene, ie. press that keypad "A" button and its going to want to change levels for all the lights, not just the one group its associated SWL controls. For instance, I moved Keypad A button C which I want to control the Bar lights. When I move it into the Keypad B scenes, I can't just assign keypad A button C to control the bar light SWL and leave all the other lone at their settings, I have to set all the SWL's in the scene. I'm likely not understand something here.

Lee, Thanks for your response. I'm guessing then I should have keypadLinc "A" buttons under the same scene as "B". I'll also check the buttons on keypad B to see if the buttons are set as responders to the main button. thanks again

Hello, I have a rec-room with about 35 halogen pot-lights, divided into 6 areas of 4-6 lights each controlled by a separate switchlinc. The switchlincs are in a wiring closest and not manually used. There are 2 keypad links that control the switchlincs. One KeypadLinc (I'll call "A") is used to individually control the switchLincs and the other (I'll call "B") is used to set "scenes" ie all on 100% or 80% or 3 areas at 30% for watch TV. KeypadLinc "A" with each button controlling a single SwitchLinc is set up as a "scene" for each button/SwitchLinc combination. The other keypad "B" that sets "Scenes" for the rec-room has all the settings under one "scene". My issue is the when I turn on the lights with KeypadLinc "B" using the say 80% button, none of the buttons light up in KeypadLinc "A"... so if I then want to turn OFF one area, I must press the associated KeypadLinc "A" button twice. The first time will turn it "ON" even though it is already "ON" the button light is OFF, so then I press it again to finally turn it OFF. KeypadLinc "A" does not seem to know its switchlincs are ON. Also if I press the "MAIN" button on KeypadLinc "B" which is all on 100%, all the other scene buttons turn ON. I must press any other "Scene" button twice (to all OFF then ON) to make it goto that scene setting. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I think that KeypadLinc "A" should lite its buttons according to what SwitchLincs are ON and KeypadLinc "B" should have only one button ON corresponding to the "Scene" selected. Thanks

I've had Insteon with ISY for a few years, but haven't done much with it for the last couple of years except enjoy it! I have upgraded to the 99 about a year ago and now running 2.8.16 . Question: In my Wreck Room, I have six 2476D wall dimmers controlling 32 pot lights (the 2476D are in a wiring closet and not directly used). I use an 8 button KPL to control each Zone and a second 2476D to control the scenes, the KPL's do not switch a load directly. On my Scene KPL, Main is used to turn ON all zones to 100%, but if I wish to change to another scene, all lights must be turned OFF, then turned back on by the scene button. How can I simply press a Scene button and have it change to that scene without all the lights turning OFF first? When I press Main on the Scene, all the KLP buttons come ON, so I thinking thats why everything must go OFF to turn ON another scene, and then only that button lights. Everything works as expected with the other buttons. thanks Hmmm, since writing this 10 mins ago, I logged into the ISY99 and just looked at stuff, then I clicked on a tiny little unlabled rectangle in the middle of a scene screen. A window open, looked like it was reading devices, now I see all my programs are blank and my scenes do not work right at all. What is this tiny unlabled "button" I pressed?

I feel like such a dope.... its tucked against the bottom edge have to turn it upright to see it down there... sorry.

I had a 2440 remotelinc under 2.6.5 I returned it as it was burning through batteries. Today I received my replacement RL. I am now running 2.6.13 and I cannot add it to the device list. I goto Link A RemoteLinc, it tells me to put it into programming mode -Then it comes up with a window asking me for the Address... there is no address sticker on it... I have never seen one on the old ones and there are no address stickers on the 2 i got today. I saw where Gergoryx looked to have a similar problem and he did a factory reset on it. I did this and still no luck. How do I link my RL's now? thanks

Michel, I found a posting on AVG 8, I am using the free edition here at home so I disabled it. Then I got to 2.6.0 no problems but still had an error going to 2.6.13.. I was using FireFox so I tried again using Windoze Explorer and all went well. My issues are fixed with KPL mutually exclusive settings now. Thanks!

Ok I'm running 2.6.5 so I attempted to "upgrade" to 2.6.13 -backed up ISY -Instructions say "Step 1 - This step is necessary if and only if you are upgrading from any release except 2.6.11 and above" I'm only at 2.6.5 so I must do this, but file to "Upgrade to" is 2.6.0... sounds like a downgrade to me but I do so anyway. That goes Ok, upon reopening the console I have no devices, but I soldier on... I now do the update to 2.6.13.. then I then get an error that says something about file length or buffer length, I can't remember.. -so I re-upgrade to 2.6.5 and that goes Ok. So I try to upgrade from there to 2.6.13 and I get error "Socket Open Failed java.Lang.NullPointerException" followed by error "upgrade Failed: ISY Refused program Update" -So now I try to go back to 2.6.0 again and get the same error as above. So I don't understand something about the upgrade procedure. Am I right that I have to downgrade to 2.6.0 first?

Hi, Sorry for being a pain in the butt here.. Just changed my wreck-room from X10 to 6 insteon zones (2476 dimmers) There is a KPL that has its buttons set to control individual SWL's and that works fine. I have a second KPL that controls the scenes (7 scenes and the main does All ON/All Off) Everything in the Scene controls works fine except the Mutually Exclusive buttons feature. I have all the scene buttons (B to H) set to be mutally Exclusive. Buttons B to E work fine, but F,G,H cause ALL the buttons to light when pressed. I've reset the buttons several times with no luck. What might I be doing wrong? thanks

I found I had to power-cycle the PLM and the ISY26 to re-establish communications. I was trying to remove the 2440 from the scenes first. Each time I tried that the system would sit there "system busy" for ever (well I would power cycle it after 15-20 minutes) Then I tried removing the whole 2440 device, this did the trick. The 2440 is gone from the system now. Now I just have to wrap my head around Scene's and KPL button function... I'll post questions about that in a new thread! Thanks!

Sorry, its a 2440 wireless remote control. It did not get removed, its still there. I'm using ver 2.6.5. I tried making some other changes to scenes, I did a couple of changes, now it won't talk to any Insteon devices. I was reading some other threads and that sounds like a problem others are having too. Bruce

Well that was fun. After about 30 minutes of the Rx light flashing on the ISY and the PLM light flashing... the house lights starting turning on and off, then everything went off and the ISY stopped talking. Brought up the interface and all is fine again.. Scary eh kids!

Tonight I tried to remove a scene that was controlled by a now faulty 2404 wireless controller. When I tried to remove it I was given a dialogue box to put the 2404 into programming mode. Well I don't have that 2404 anymore, its faulty so I expected the ISY to complain a bit then get over it and remove the scene... WRONG! It hung there repeating its attempt to contact the 2404 over and over. It finally gave up and the program hung in fine Windoze fashion. Now I get the error "Socket open failed java.net.SocketTimoutException error" when I start the ISY user interface. I can't control anything, sometimes it wont start right. I rebooted the computer, still the same. How can I fixed this and how do you remove units that are no longer working? thanks

Ohh man!! I am sorry... its the 50 thing... I knew that but forgot. I'm making of cheat sheet of these tidbits. thanks!