Brian H

If the EZFlora is around two years old and built on the base 2413 Dual Band PLM Main Board with their custom daughter board. It could be suffering from the known power supply issues.

The ISY994i needs a serial PLM to work. At the present time there is no European PLM that will work on 220 volts 50 Cycles and the different Insteon RF frequency used in Europe. I have seen mention of some modified European HUB's to make them a PLM. I have no further information on who did it or how it is done.

Yes the serial connection on their model goes to the same serial jack on the ISY Controller. It has the same base 2413 PLM main board in it. So it is only as reliable as the Smarthome 2413S PLM. I have seen no reports of the serial daughter boards in either model being an issue.

The Smartenit Insteon Serial PLM is built on the same 2413 base main PCB they buy from Smartlabs. With their own serial port daughter board. That can have options like RS-485 I/O or USB So if you need to purchase a new one. You might as well just get another Smarthome one as both have the same base main PCB. The Smartenit has a one year warranty. The Smarthome a two year warranty. The latest 2413S with a hardware revision of 2.0 and above. Are supposed to have the updated power supply components for better reliability. As the older ones had a reputation of failing shortly over the two year warranty period. Smartenit sales page indicates it is Functionally equivalent to a Smarthome 2413S PLM

Memory and Error flashing is a network communications problem. As you suspected. You may want to look at the wiki hints on this issue. http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Front_Panel_LEDs.2FLights

On the two ones with no LEDs Try a power cycle reset. By pulling the Air gap Switch out for ten seconds. Then push the Air Gap switch back to its normal position. Using care you don't push it all the way in. When you replaced the PLM did you power down the ISY controller and the old PLM? Power up the new PLM first so it can totally initialize. Power Up the ISY controller so it detects the new PLM's ID. Then do a Restore Modem (PLM)? You did not use the Delete Modem (PLM) at any point?

I have seen duplicate six digit Insteon ID's for the special Developers Group Hardware Kits. All the PLM's where AA.AA.AA All the Lamplincs where 11.11.11 A few of the developers with more than one kit being used by a few employees. At the same time. Caused all kinds of strange happenings when one developer caused another developers kit to go on, off brighten or dim. Probably would also get strange answers if the LampLinc was asked its status.

Yes after the new one is added. When you click on the bad one. The replace with will give you a list of modules of the same type including the new one added. Pick the new ones name and it will replace all the places the old one was. The original bad one should no longer be in the Administrative Console or any scenes it was in. The new one should have replaced it. If the old switch had any battery operated devices like a Motion Sensor controlling it. It would have to be woken up for the new switches ID to be written to it.

If memory serves me. Some of the RemoteLinc 1's. Had an issue with not going into power saving mode and killing the batteries in a relatively short time. Not sure if I can find any archived data on how to get it back to power saving after I believe thirty seconds.

Try this. Only needs the reset button pushed on the ISY99i/ISY994i http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Resetting_Your_Userid/Password

It is possible there where some modules made that had different properties for a special order and then sold refurbished if they had too many. Especially if the Subcategory number it reported was not a standard one.

I have had no issues with the Refurbished ON/OFF Modules and 2457D2R Lamplinc I have purchased. They did have a R appended on the part number and not the latest firmware. I don't think Smarthome or Smartlabs is going to take a module apart to reprogram its firmware. There may have been retail part numbers on some of the other models I have purchased. Though they where things that may not be normally added like Access Points.

You may want to look at this wiki link. http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Replacing/Formatting_an_SD_Card I am not sure unzipping the firmware file to a new SD Card and installing it will work correctly.

Thank you for the update. I am glad it worked out for you.

Yes I have seen that the PCS devices use the Preset Dim. So you should be fine.

You may have to add some small delay times between the X10 commands in the then section of your example. If the commands jam up on each other and cause corrupted X10 commands. The Preset Dim may not work. X10 modules do not respond to a Preset Dim. Only a Standard Dim. Later Soft Start X10 modules Dim or Extended Code Direct Dim X10 commands. Do you have an X10 Coupler/Repeater in your X10 setup? Some of the X10 Active Repeaters can corrupt Insteon messages. By send an X10 command for what it thinks is an X10 message.

If I read your original post. You want to replace the XPT X10 wall keypad controller with a 2487S. You trying to have the 2487S buttons send the X10 commands. Have you tried programming them with an X10 address yet?

That was probably me "BLH" responding to your Smarthome Forums message. Though Tom has also added a reply. 3.3.10 is the last official ISY99i firmware. All the later versions are too large to fit into a ISY99i and only are for the ISY994i series hardware. I would use 3.3.10 on an ISY99i. I put it on my ISY99i before retiring it when I got my ISY994i. I have Hardware 2.4 revision 2412S PLMs. There are two different Firmware versions in them. 52 or 61. So some hardware versions may have different firmware version in them. The firmware 61 2412S worked on my ISY99i and Docklight Scripting testing showed X10 could be received and sent.

So your "good" 2412S has the firmware in it that has issues with X10, that you need. The "bad" one that worked for two days. Now puts the ISY99i into the Safe Mode as it is not detected at boot up of the ISY99i. I will think on your findings and see if I can think of a way to further test the one acting bad at the present time. I still have a few of the 2412S with 417 link databases {not used for X10 so smaller size not important } and an ISY99i. Can try and see what we maybe able to do testing wise.

Sorry for the confusion. The BUG was firmware 2.4 not the hardware 2.4. The problem 2412S was hardware 1.9 with firmware 2.4. I have seen stickers over stickers. Right from Smarthome and also seen Date Code Formats change on the labels. Depending on what year it was manufactured. Your hardware 2.4 does not respond to the ISY99i and will not communicate at all?

I didn't see any notes from end users in the database I linked to for the hardware 2.4. Probably has v.52 firmware in it.

If it worked with the 4A firmware 2412S. The ISY99i is probably OK. With a 2412S that also powers up the ISY99i. You don't have to power the 2412S up first and then connect the ISY99i. I understand at start up the ISY99i tries a few times for a reply from the 2412S before triggering a no PLM safe mode condition. I can't find a hardware 1.75 2412S in the end users database provided by users. Hardware 1.9 was the first 2412S released and it was with the Simplehomenet {Smartenit} EZIO8SA. It also had a severe BUG in the 2.4 firmware. About 50% of the time a Factory Reset made it smoke and fail. Seems the small Charge Pump 30 volt power supply for the power line transmitter would get turned on at 100% and burned out. http://www.madreporite.com/insteon/Insteon_device_list.htm

2412S Quick users Guide. There is no full users manual. http://cache-m2.smarthome.com/manuals/2412sqs.pdf The capacitor fix for the 2413S does not apply to the 2412S. Completely different circuitry. Including a linear power transformer type power supply and not the switching type in a 2413S. 2412S Insteon Modem Developers Guide. Has schematics and parts list in it. The capacitors should be on the parts list. I have never tried changing them so I don't know how difficult it is to change them. http://cache.insteon.com/developer/2413dev-042007-en.pdf Since there is unregulated 12 volts {around 18.5 volts DC} on the 2412S RJ45 serial port. Though I don't believe pin #2 and #7 are on the same cable pair. In a network jack. You may want to look at both the RJ45 jack on the PLM and ISY99i Port A. To verify one of the pins maybe out of place. Also if not tried yet. A different cable between the PLM and ISY99i. Do you have the hardware version on the PLM's label? Some also had the firmware label.

Low ESR would be recommended. I believe it has the switching power supply IC {could not read the part number from the FCC Database Photos} on the solder side of the PCB that Smartlabs liked to use. That could also be why the glue holding the crystal is discolored. Power supply components on the other side of the PCB.

The original ones with the silicon like glue. Bake them at about 200 Degrees F for maybe 30 minutes. Grab with thick gloves. Top should pop off. If memory serves me some of my latest ones had a different glue and didn't budge after the baking. There is a thread on the Candlepower Forums on the Cree 100 Watt ones failing. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?411223-Cree-100w-daylight-bulbs-keep-dying-Anyone-else-have-that-problem&s=2434390dcdd8f3e25e14db866b40f1c9