Brian H

All those nice electronic goodies you mentioned can effect power line communications and may need filters. They could be generating power line noise or absorbing signals. It could be noise is telling the Insteon modules to wait for a clear line to send a signal. The communications tests use both RF and power line signals.

The motion sensors are a battery operated device as you know. To prevent short battery life. They go into a suspended operating mode. When in this mode. The electronics can not receive any communications from anything. That is why you have to push the button. If they listened all the time. You would be climbing the ladder more often to change the batteries. I believe HouseLinc use to remember pending changes and the next time the sensor woke up to send a command. It sent the pending changes to the sensor before it went back to suspended mode. I also understand it didn't work well and maybe gone in the latest revision of HouseLinc.

If the PLM was the 2412S that supplied raw +12 volts to the ISY99i. Connecting it to the router may have fried one of its signal transformers. Changing ports on the router would also indicate a 2412S may have fried a signal transformer. If your is a 2413S that does not supply raw +12 volts on the interface connector. Ignore the above.

There where issues with the V2 thermostat adapter with communication issues. Did Smarthome send you an email offering a swap to the latest firmware with the fix in it?

It does sound like it maybe external interference as Lee pointed out. In the X10 forums. We see all kinds of things. One example is a cell phone charger that caused false x10 like messages. http://jvde.us/x10/x10_cellet_noise.htm We have also seen things deteriorating. Like a CFL getting close to end of life starting to be a problem. When it was fine originally.

Are the old SwitchLincs two way or have BoosterLinc Technology features? Any active X10 coupler Repeaters in the house?

Glad you found it and it is working.

Link Management. Add New Insteon Device. In the Device Type they are listed there. Also remember to start the linking mode on the RemoteLinc2. By holding the set button until the Green LED flashes.

3.1.10 has the RemoteLinc2 supported. Since it is not an official release. You have to manually update to it. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7108 viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6015 If you do use 3.1.10 to add a RL2. The reminder message to start it linking first. Is not showing and is to be corrected in the next drop. Just hold the SET button until the Green LED flashes before starting the process to add the RL2. Also there are three versions of the RL2. Verify you pick the correct one in the drop down device list.

I have found a discrepancy in the pop up message for RemoteLincs and RemoteLinc2s. In the Add A New Insteon X10 Device. Picking a RemoteLinc gives you the older message about starting the linking process first. Picking a RemoteLinc2 gives you no message about starting the linking process first. Now in the Show Device Links Table of Diagnostics and picking a RemoteLinc. I get an updated start linking process first message. That includes how to do for a RemoteLinc; RemoteLinc2 or a TriggerLinc/Motion Sensor.

Since they are an RF device that normally goes into a power saving mode. Did you Hold the Set Button until the LED started to flash before trying to add them? That wakes them up so the ISY99i can access them. Did you get a pop up message telling you to hold the Set Button? I thought I saw it one time but when I tried this morning. Only the original RemoteLinc gave the message and it was the older one. Not the one mentioning both original and new RL2's.

Hold the Bright and Dim buttons. Until the LED starts flashing. You then have about four minutes to write to the RemoteLinc. If you have the Pro version. You can also set it to not automatically update battery powered devices. Then individually put the RF device in the linking mode and then write to it.

Some Insteon Modules had issues with certain firmware revisions.

If you find some used ones. You may want to verify that that don't have known issues. Like some earlier SwitchLincs having intermittent buttons. That Smartlabs extended the warranty to seven years. To the original owner with a Smarthome Invoice Number.

You should normally type in the Insteon Address to the Add an Insteon Device Screen. Some of us have made a chart or list of IDs as we install them. Makes finding it easier than removing switch plates etc. If you used the other linking choice of Start Linking and then walked around to all the modules and used their linking buttons. Then they are found and added.

When you send the Insteon On signal to the I/OLinc from ISY. You can also two lines of code to send the X10 On signal to the UM506. Then the beeper will sound. Like in the morning when my lights are turned on. I send an X10 On command to my chime module to sound a reminder to get up. I send the X10 On code then added a 2 second pause to allow the X10 signals to complete. Then the Insteon command to light the lights is sent.

You may have some power line noise makers, signal absorbers or phase coupling issues. The Ocelots higher signal strength maybe strong enough to over come this and the 2413S is not. Do you have any X10 phase couplers in the system? The 2443 Access Points and all Insteon modules do not resend X10 signals. Do you have any filters on the computer or UPS units you may have. The 2413S should not be on a filtered surge strip. Also Insteon modules being two way also absorb X10 and Insteon signals. Insteon gets resent X10 does not. Many have seen X10 get more problematic as Insteon devices are added to the system.

Sending the X10 signal does sound like a way to go. You could even reset the UM506 to Sounder Only if the clunk of the relay was annoying.

Yes the UM506 does have a beeper that could be triggered when the relay was turned On. I don't believe you can do that with a IOLinc. You may have to trigger an external beeper. Maybe with another Insteon module or trigger it off the closing signal from the IOLinc.

There are others here that have the Garage Door Kit. I am sure they will have good tips for you. I believe you can set the relay's properties in ISY and not have to do the button sequences mentioned in the manual.

Page 11 of the Full Users Manual. How to set the relay to momentary closure. Can also be done through the ISY interface. http://www.smarthome.com/manuals/2450.pdf Smarthome also has a garage door kit that uses the I/OLinc. There is a link on the sales page to how it is hooked up. That may give you some ideas. http://www.smarthome.com/74551/I-O-Linc ... Kit/p.aspx http://www.smarthome.com/manuals/74551qs.pdf

I have the IR option in mine, but at present am not utilizing it. I have a JV Engineering XTB-IIR that hits the power lines with over 10 volts of X10 signals. It also was designed to ignore Insteon power line signals.

One point that may effect your X10 and Insteon installation. Insteon devices are two way as they can also send power line signals. The transmitter in them can absorb power line signals. Insteon modules do resend their messages but not X10 ones. Some have found as they add Insteon devices. The Insteon network gets more reliable while the remaining X10 devices get less reliable. I have a mixed system but have a very strong X10 coupler repeater. So when I added the Insteon my X10 signals are still strong enough.

I assist in the X10 forums. With all the modern electronic devices, making power line noise and absorbing power line signals. Getting a system 100% is not easy. I still use X10 for tests and some modules still not in Insteon. Like a chime module and sixteen button palm pad remote. All my Insteon modules also have an X10 address in them. For use with the palm pad. I have a JV Engineering XTB-IIR Repeater Coupler that hits the power lines with over a ten volt X10 signal. My lowest signal is 1.25 volts. As measured by their XTBM X10 signal meter. It also is smart enough to recognize an Insteon signal and not garbage it. By trying to duplicate it as an X10 signal.

If you coupler is a XPCP coupler. It also has a set of twin tuned transformers. Not sure how narrow it coupling range is.