Brian H

Smart Home Products. Is showing the Blank White KPL buttons along with a few other items like KPL color change kits and LED light pipes for Switchlincs, on their web site store. https://www.smarthome-products.com/p-1764-2401bt10-blank-10-button-set-for-keypadlinc-white.aspx

An UPS may effect the power line signals. I also have a Portable Air Conditioner. That signal sucks power line signals. In the age of Dual Band Modules. Insteon RF may cover the setup fine. It would effect someone like me. As I still have a majority of the original power line only Insteon Modules in use. As I also have X10 addresses in mine that many present models have eliminated. So Access Points are also still in my setup also.

If the PLM is on the same circuit as an UPS for the computing equipment. They can frequently absorb both X10 and Insteon power line signals. I have my UPS on the filtered bottom outlet of a FilterLinc and the PLM in the unfiltered pass through outlet on the front.

Any new or moved electronic devices. Around the time things changed? From your second test run. It sounds like you have a signal sucker or power line noise maker or a phase coupling issue. If you have an electric stove or electric dryer. They use 220 VAC and it you turn one On and the X10 gets better to areas with issues. You may have a phase coupling issue. If you have an X10 phase coupler in the system now. It may have failed. I have not seen any PLM X10 issues reported lately. I do have a 2456S3 ApplianceLinc that got X10 signal deaf but Insteon still works. Saw your mention of the firmware maybe not supporting X10 correctly. In another post. I was using X10 with v4.7.3 and v4.8.0 is supposed to have only disabled the Climate Module that was discontinued.

Do the Orbit sprinklers have low voltage AC controls? From what I can gather. The EZFlora has small triac's to control the valves and they need an AC voltage source. A model number of the Orbit you want to control. Would help in finding a solution.

Even at 100% on level. There is a short distortion of the AC power around the Zero Crossing. That may or may not effect the bulb or the bulbs electronics will not play nice with the dimmers. I would do a test of the exact bulb model if I wanted to try it and observe for unexpected results. If I wanted to try the mixture.

The EZIO2x4's GND is the reference for its 5 volt power supply. It is an isolated ground for internal use. It does not connect to the ground on the power line input or any other ground. When you are using the switched output on the device you are using. You have to have its common connection for the output switch and the GND of the EZIO2x4 tied together so the switch can be read.

You need two wires from the device to the EZIO2x4. If you are using the I2 inputs. +5 to I2+. I2- to the white wire on the device. EZIO2x4 GND terminal to the control circuits Black Common.

If you want to totally isolate the input. As the EZIO2x4 can accept up to a 30 Volt DC input. I2(I1)+ to the +24VDC. I2(I1)- to the third wire that connects to the 24 volt common when On.

Is the switch dry contact? Where both terminals are not referenced directly to the 24 volt supply? If the control signal switches to the 24 volt common or is +24 volts in one position and 0 volts in the other position. We may have to think on this a little more. Let us know if the third wire connects to the common 24 volt supply when activated. If the switch is a Dry Contact type. I2(I1)+ to EZIO2x4 5volts. I2(I1)- to one of the switches terminals. The other switches terminal to the EZIO2x4 GND Ground terminal should work. If the switch connects to the 24 volt common when On. I2(I1)+ to EZIO2x4 5 volts. I2(I1)- to the switches third wire for the switch. GND terminal on the EZIO2x4 to the 24 volt common should work.

No they are not added to the ISY setup. All you do is plug them in. Use the built in 4 tap/communications tests. To verify at least one other Access Point or Dual Band Module can communicate with it and on the same or opposite phase of the power into the home. Revision 1 white LED and Revision 2 Green/Red LED. The receiving Access Point's flash patterns are different. If they are any revision 2 Access Points. They are built on the same base board as the 2413 PLM. With the same power supply issues. I had both of mine get flaky until rebuilt.

Was much heavier and it may have a pass through outlet on the front cover? Sounds like the original EZIO2x4 was built on the Dual Band 2413 base board and the new one is on the older power line only 2412 base board. The 2412 base board used a real power transformer and was heavier. Not a switching supply like the 2413 base board. Like many here. They had issues with the power supplies on the 2413 base board and bought 2412 base boards from Smarthome. The original Smartenit (Simplehomenet) modules started out on 2412 base board then for awhile they used 2413 base boards.

The manual says it has Local Control. Normally if the module is Off. Toggling the loads built in switch from On to Off and back On. The module will turn back On with out you needing an Insteon command to turn it On. Some LED light bulbs and other loads can falsely trigger some Local Controls. Did you get random changes with a standard light bulb. Any noise makers on the same circuit?

Another option. Would get the original magnetic switch in the early Garage Door Kits. So you didn't have to use the Trigger Reverse function. I had both a NO and NC connection you could choose from.

The V1.? 2443 Access Points the white LED will flash on Insteon Tragic. The V2.? don't seem to flash for me. You can always run the builtin 4 TAP/Beacon communications tests between them or any other Dual Band Modules. To see if they can communicate. The checking the Hop count for changes. Should also show some information on if they are helping. The Scene tests may also yield some information. With and without the Access Points in use.

Shorting I4 may help. Both I3/AN1 and I4/AN2 are a high impedance input and subject to noise. Testing mine found that all I had to do was touch the case and if they where not terminated. Resulted in a flood of random message (LED on side flashing) being constantly sent. If the wiring to the dry contacts you are using with I3 are long or near a noise source. I suppose it may pickup noise but the resistor should calm it down.

If the 2443 Access Points are any revision 2. Label on the back should show revision. They are built on the same 2413 base board as the 2413S PLM we use and subject to the same capacitor issues. So your tests may show no added communications issues if removed and already are starting to fail.

The pass through outlet on the EZIO2x4 is an older 2412 base board. The 2413 base boards had issues and Smartenit went back to the old 2412 boards made for them. PLM using the utility does not matter. Unless the PLM has bad caps. This is for the I1 input and dry contacts. https://smartenit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EZIO2X4-Dry-Contact-Connection.jpg. I 2 would be the same as it is also an isolated input. I1+ should always read 5 volts. I1- should change from close to 5 volts contacts open and nearly 0 volts when the contacts are closed. I think the v2.03b had its screen name changed to Smartenit. I have a copy of 2.02e and its screen still said Simplehomenet. Digital inputs. You connect the digital input (I3 or I4) to the digital source signal and the GND terminal for the digital sources common. Remember a digital signal is from 0 volts to 5 volts. 0-1 volts is Off and 3-5 volts is On is the way I see digital levels. Smartenit says 0-1 volts is On and 3-5 volts is Off. In their users sheet for the module. The utility does allow you to set the input to an Analog. If you really want to use a digital input and dry contact. Connect the digital input to 5 volts through a pull up resistor and the dry contacts to the digital input and GND. The input will be inverted. Open will be On and closed will be off. Not recommended due to noise and possible 5 volt supply protection issues. You could pull the input to GND with a resistor and then use the contacts to switch the 5 volts into the input. That way open contacts would be Off and closed On. The Smartenit information does not follow what I call a digital signal. So the On and Off status maybe reversed. Depending on how they implemented the signals status.

There is no I3- terminal. It is one of the two Digital- Analog inputs and are not an isolated input. Where you can tie the + input to +5 and the - input to GND through the dry contacts. I1and I2 have both a + and - terminal.

2.03 was on the SimpleHome Net Forums. That is now defunct. SourceForge where I may have gotten 2.03 also now has 2.0. https://sourceforge.net/projects/shnutilitysuite/ The version on the sales site is 2.0 and I don't think there is much change between the versions. Are I3 or I4 being driven by a Digital signal driver? Is your EZIO2x4 built on the older power line only 2412 base board or the 2413 Dual Band base board? If it is a 2413 base board. It will be subject to the same power supply capacitor issues we have seen in the 2413S PLMs.

Is the module stable if you have no wires on it? Like unplug the wiring plug from the module so no wires are connected. I did see reports of a floating Analog Input causing issues and why connecting to the GND was recommended if not being used. If it is one of the Analog inputs. It is 0-5VDC. Can't say for sure if a higher voltage spike may have effected it.

This is probably a stupid question on my part. You are using the GND terminal on the unit and not a safety or power line Ground?

What revision SHN Utility? My 2.03b and an old EZIO2X4. Shows two Analog and two Isolated inputs. AN1, AN2, Input 1 and Input 2. A configuration area where you have to enable the Analog Inputs. That are defaulted to Off and can't be read. If you are not using the second input. You don't have anything on I2+ or I2-?

No 10K resistor needed for the Isolated inputs. They have a internal resistor to limit the current into the Opto isolator. 3-30 volts DC is the input range. Connect I1+,I2+ to the +5 volt terminal. Dry connects from I1-,I2- and the GND terminal. If you are only using one of the two isolated inputs. The second one should not have to have its inputs tied to ground. Tie the analog inputs if not used to GND terminal. No resistor needed. You asked about the Analog input connections. The analog inputs are between the Analog terminal and the Ground terminal.

For me. The portal sign in used my email address on file and a portal password. The first time I used it. It asked to verify my forum pass word I can't remember if the forum users name was also asked.. After that the portal credentials got me into the forums.