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The stock card on my 994i ir-pro with z-wave is 16gb. The wiki and manual state 2gb to 32gb. Not sure a 1gb card would work.

My ISY994i pro is starting to glitch and I'd very much like to not be dependent on UDI for yet another piece of hardware that I'll just have to replace in a few years. I see my two main choices are 1) Use a PLM directly or 2) Get a Hub 2 and then integrate HA with the Hub. I'd rather integrate directly with the PLM but it seems native Insteon scene management may be an issue unless this has been implemented in HA since. Otherwise if I want native scene management, I'd have to go Hub 2 which kind of sucks since that's the only thing I'd be using the Hub for. Has anyone done an ISY to HA migration with stories to share? I'm considering eisy but would rather take a route that depends on as little bespoke hardware as possible. I pretty much have to use a PLM with my Insteon ecosystem but I'm hoping that's the line I can draw at specialized hardware.

Any idea how seamless or not moving the the DSC integration over would be? I'm currently using NodeLink Server with DSC and CAI node servers. Does eisy still support the node server interface? The DSC server is for my alarm system integration and the CAI web control boards are sprinkled around the house and integrate digital i/o for open/close door sensors, solenoid control for various devices, and analog i/o for tons of sensors. Half of my 300+ ISY programs use DSC or CAI nodes.

I'm guessing from the lack of responses that the current eisy platform may not be as prolific as the old isy devices where there were dozens of active threads every single day. More details on my current setup. No z-wave. I am using DSC and CAI integrations through the old Nodelink server running in a container on my nas. Have some polyglot integrations but could dumb those as they've gone stale and I don't really use them. All the rest of my integrations to other devices to and from are just a tone of network resources (posting commands to URLs with parameters and such) and triggering programs from extern http POSTS. I'm surprised nobody has created a legacy containerized ISY emulator using the usb-rj45 cable to the PLM.

So it's still not as straight forward as restoring from an ISY backup?

So today I decided to pull out my old 2.4 PLM that I haven't used in years and recap it. I removed the first two 50v 100 μF caps and tested them with my ESR tester. They were right on spec and ESR was 199 to 220 mΩ. The replacements are like 350 mΩ which is fine but the point is these aren't failing. I tested the remaining caps while still installed and they are all good. I should have checked before wasting time replacing caps that were actually fine. So the random memory loss resulting in the PLM links table clearing out does not appear to be because of bad caps.

Yes. I always start with a factory reset when pulling new from the box. You never know if it was a temporary open box item.

Yes. I have a keypad mini repote in linking mode sitting 6 inches away from the PLM. But besides that, it doesn't doesn't receive status or control anything when on the isolated power supply. The 2.5 unit works fine when doing that.

Swapping out a new 2.6 that has been sitting on the shelf for about 2 years for my 2.5 which is intermittently losing the links. My plan was just to replace the caps on the 2.5 unit and put it back on the shelf as a backup since swapping is a bit of pain. However, this new 2.6 unit doesn't work on RF. It was slightly flakey when updating devices around the house, so I put it on a portable power supply so it could only talk with RF and it's 100% not working even when trying to update links on a wireless remote 3 feet away from it. The 2.5 unit works nearly perfectly with RF alone when on the same isolated power supply. So my question is, just a defective unit out of the box or could there quietly have been a design change to reduce cost?

Thanks. Got it. The only way to upgrade was to open "OpenADR Console" rather than admin console. That just refused to open but I assume that makes sense since there's no firmware on it. Under the ADR console, I found the manual upgrade option. That worked but I kept getting written size mismatch errors at 82% when trying to do a restore. So now I'm trying another card. if this works, I'll just need to buy a fresh 16GB card since all the cards that small that I have are really old.

5.3.4 no longer appears to be available for download. I'm trying to restore my 994i because the SD card appears to be shot. I've installed a new card but the only option is to do a manual upgrade. Does anyone know where you can actually get the 5.3.4 zip file????

My ISY994i z-wave ir-pro seems to be dying. I was hoping it might be cables, power supply, sd card or something else fixable but I'm striking out on everything. The last thing I tried to do was put a new 16GB sd card in but it just freezes whenever I type the FS command in a telnet terminal. https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/46746-trying-to-replace-failing-sd-card-in-994i/ If I upgrade to an eisy, what version should I get? What I'm really hoping for is being able to get an eisy and restore from a recent ISY backup but when polisy came out, I think the upgrade path wasn't so simple so I never upgraded. I have 200+ insteon devices and 150+ programs.

Trying to follow: https://wiki.universal-devices.com/ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Replacing/Formatting_an_SD_Card But 5.3.4 no longer available in the referenced thread. I know it used to be. I've downloaded it myself from that very thread. Also, no matter what SD card I put in, when I telnet in and type "FS" and answer "Y" to the prompt, it just freezes as soon as I type "Y" and stays like that forever. The only light on the front of the ISY is the power light. No other LEDS lit or blinking. If I stick the old card back in, it boots and works but it fails with socket errors whenever I try to make any changes that result in it trying to write to the card. Prior to that, I checked the power supply (running new power supply now), network cables both for the network and PLM. I thought maybe the PLM was failing so I swapped in a brand new unused version 2.6 PLM but again get strange socket errors when trying to do a restore PLM. I get socket errors when trying to do an ISY backup (but i have a good recent backup so not a big deal on that one). The same errors happen from multiple PCs and Macs.

Spent all day setting it up including getting the legacy Isylink up and running (because I need CAI and the PG2's DSC plugin doesn't have the features I need that are in Isylink's node server). So then comes installing PG2 and I get errors like this: Reading package lists... E: Package 'mongodb-server' has no installation candidate E: Unable to locate package python2.7-dev E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python2.7-dev' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python2.7-dev' E: Package 'python-pip' has no installation candidate E: Package 'mongodb-server' has no installation candidate And then I find a post in this forum that says you have to install the lagacy raspian lite which won't work with other stuff I've already installed. So what do I do? Just keep running PG2 on my old RPI3 and don't shut if off? Can I run it in a docker container on the the RPI5 even though PG2 itself dockerizes for each node server?

I got my replacement caps today from an ebay seller. Spent a few extra bucks for the curation of them rather than going straight to Digikey. Now I'm not so sure it was the right thing to day. Two of the caps have significantly bumped voltages which I thought was an issue for powerline signal reliability: C3 - 6.8 µF 250 v (replacement is 450 v).C11 - 100 µF 25 v (replacement is 50 v) Is this ok?