Brian H

LeeG; Doesn't the RS-485 option for the EZIComm add the signals to the RJ45 I/O Jack and the RS-232 signals are still there? The users manual seems to indicate that some normally unused pins and the TTL signal pins are removed or reused. When RS-485 was added.

Many of their devices are built on the Base PLM they get from Smartlabs and then add their own daughter cards.

I use Zone Alarm and in my case. The ISY994i's IP address had to be added to the Trusted Zone. I also had problems with Avast as LeeG mentioned.

Yes, no Universal Power PLM is a big bummer. It looks like they are going the cloud based smart phone apps and HouseLinc route. With the HUB. I doubt it would be that hard for the Smartlabs Engineers to rework the HUB for PLM use. Only thing I can think of. Insteon signals start before Zero Crossing and the PLM has to calculate from the last Zero Crossing to start a power line command. 50 cycles messes up all the timing. X10 starts from Zero Crossing and there is an off chance even at 50 cycles it was able to send a command.

The ISY994i has to be connected to a PLM. It will not work with the HUB and if the PLM can not communicate with each of the Insteon Modules. It can't add them to the PLMs database and see their commands.

I may have not been clear. I doubt the Insteon RF commands from the PLM will work. Still using the 50 cycles for timing. The PLM does not send any X10 RF commands. Some X10 folks have bridged the primary and secondary of a 220 volt to 120 volt transformer with an AC rated capacitor. Again 50 cycles is the problem. With a PLM. The 100-240 volt Dual Band devices. Probably will communicate with each other as they adjust to 60 or 50 cycle power.

The reason X10 works and the PLMs Insteon commands don't work is signal timing. X10 times everything from Zero Crossing where the AC swings through zero. Insteon starts 800 microseconds before Zero Crossing to 1023 microseconds after Zero Crossing. The PLM is timed to use 60 cycles and as LeeG pointed out will not function correctly on 50 cycles. Some of the latest universal power Insteon Dual Band Modules. Like the 2443-222. Can run on 100-240 volts and auto detect 50 or 60 cycles. Unfortunately the PLM is not one of them. Since X10 modules use Zero Crossing as their start of signal timing. They will, most likely, still function on 50 cycles. Just all the messages take longer to complete. I would also suspect. What ever you are using to drop the 220 volts to 120 volt for the PLM. Is blocking or severely deteriorating the PLMs power line signals. You maybe strictly using the RF Insteon signals to another Dual Band Device.

How is the 2443-222 wired to 220 volts and the load? 220 Volts 50 or 60 cycles?

Was a communications failure with the device. My old I1 ApplianceLincs every once and awhile just go stupid. Giving me a few red ! displays. You could have tried right clicking on the red ! device and try a query or one of the diagnostic tests that also show with the right click. Removing and reinstalling may not have been needed. If the 2477D was locked up. You may have been able to just pull out the Air Gap Switch. Wait maybe thirty seconds. Push the Air Gap switch back to its normal position. Just not all the way in or you will do a factory reset. Than a query of the device.

A member of the Smarthome Forums is doing a Fanlinc in a Casablanca Fan with digital controls. I believe they where going to have to remove the controls to use the Fanlinc. In their case. There was a motor running capacitor on the control board. That has to be moved so it is connected directly to the motors wires. Capacitor also would determine direction. Depending on which of the two individual windings had the Line on it and the other just the cap between them. http://www.smarthome.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10229

Do you have a 2412S PLM that supplies power to the ISY99i or a 2413S PLM and an external power supply for the ISY99i? Are both the ISY99i and PLM power cycled?

How new is the PLM? Is it the presently being sold 2413S or the previous 2412S model? Your PLM could be going bad. What firmware is in the PLM? Tools Tab PLM Info/Status should give you the PLMs firmware version.

When you replace the internal sensor in the 2441ZTH with the external probe. As jmed999 did. You are limited by what the 2441ZTH's hardware can do. It has a high limit in the mid 120 degrees F range. So the choices in the ISY console. Are probably close to the top limit. Since the external probe information is almost nonexistent in the 2441ZTH Developers Guide. It is very possible that it can go higher on the external input and I was incorrect. I believe there is no way at present to read the external probe data into the ISY controller. The CAI webcontrol board sounds like a good way to go.

The 2433A3 External Temperature Probe has a range of -13 to 185 degrees F. I would not take that as an indication the 2441ZTH can also do the same range. I am not a great Insteon Messaging person. So I maybe incorrect. If I read the 2441ZTH's Developers Guide correctly and Smartlabs has not changed things. Your ISY choices are indicating close to the maximum it can report. For both the internal and external temperature probes. I am sure the folks at UDI will have further input for you.

Did you disconnect the internal sensor and solder the external probe in its place? As shown it the thread you mentioned. If you did. You will be limited to the temperature range the internal sensor can report and I doubt the internal temperature can go that high. So the external sensor maybe OK to 185 F. You probably will not be able to read that high.

Are the SwitchLincs On Off Relay type or Dimmer type? Are the SwitchLincs the new Dual Band Models? The SwitchLincs are new and not purchased from a private seller? Have you tried a power reset? Where you pull out the Air Gap Switch for ten seconds. Then press it back to its normal position? Don't push too far as all the way in does a factory reset. You exchanged the original paddles for a new color set? You may want to double check that they are on correctly.

Did you ever get the firmware and UI versions to match? Both should be the same.

There is a thread on PLM failures. Over on the Smarthome forums. Last post indicated theirs lasted one month. http://www.smarthome.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12499

2. The HUB could not control any module where its Insteon ID number was not in the devices link database. 3. One controller will not know what links where added to the devices by the other controller and eventually one will over write the others controllers links. This has happened with someone using HouseLinc's diagnostics to test systems that are controlled mainly by an ISY controller.

Have you updated to the latest revision of Java? It is 1.7.0_21. Version 7 Update 21. On my computer. What version of firmware are you running?

The Firmware for an ISY99i is no longer being updated. You may want to look at a ISY994i series controller. viewtopic.php?f=44&t=10771

The ISY controller normally does not query an RF device. Are the RF devices in a program or scene where they maybe queried? The Pro version adds the feature to not automatically update Battery operated RF devices and then lets you do them one at a time.

If you have not had a chance yet. You may want to see what is in the MAC Section of the forums. viewforum.php?f=19

You may have been able to read the link database if you woke it up with its set button. Like other battery devices are.

The manuals are also on the Insteon.com site. Along with the links on the devices sales pages, LeeG mentioned. http://www.insteon.com/support.html The only exception with SwitchLincs where the old I1 protocol SwitchLinc Relays. They have no Air Gap switch and needed a set of button push sequences to reset them.