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Thanks @Geddy I'll check out the videos too!

Nevermind, found it!

Awesome, thanks! Oh wait, while I have "you" here, can somebody provide me a pointer to where I can find instructions for installing Polisy on a raspberry pi? I'll look around myself. Maybe I've missed it somwhere.

Oh, here's my understanding in a nutshell, of Polyglot and Polisy. The Polyglot cloud provides a way to run nodeservers with your ISY without needing to purchase Polisy hardware or Raspberry Pi. The Polisy hardware or a configured Raspberry Pi can be used *instead* of the Polyglot cloud. Current hardware and the cloud are using Polyglot 2.0 nodeservers. Polyglot 3.0 is in development and will require existing nodeservers to be modified to work. The polyglot cloud is not likely going to support 3.0 nodeservers, so it would be prudent to consider setting up local hardware in some reasonable timeframe. Do I have this right?

Just up front, I am always amazed at how thorough and helpful the users are on this forum. I've never experienced one this good. Thank you soo much! Also, @geddy, thank you for the details. It really really helps. @jimbo, First good name (It's my first name too). Second, you have helped me in the other thread. For anybody who runs across this thread for ecobee problems, here's three really useful pieces of info. Restart on the polyglot cloud service means, Stop and Start of the node server. You certainly don't need a PIN anymore to setup ecobee. The biggest thing I hadn't been doing but needed to was to restart the ISY admin console after getting the ecobee nodes to appear in the console. To get the nodes to appear in the admin console you might need to copy the ecobee authorization link from the ecobee nodeserver log as I understand that sometimes the website fails to display the link.

I've been using ISY now successfully for many years. And recently I was able to get a couple of node-servers up and running on it (DarkSky, Ecobee). However, I have a few questions: I'm confused as to what an extra Polisy device would be used for? I mean I was using two node servers and an ISY without one. I do have a raspberry pi that I could consider installing it on but for some reason I'm having a hell of a time trying to find instructions on how to do so. Maybe it's right in front of me, but I'm not seeing it. As I mentioned that I had both DarkSky and Ecobee successfully running once. BUT now neither are working for me. I was just trying to do some updates after setting them up about a year ago. For whatever reason I ended up uninstalling and tryin to reinstall both. I don't care about DarkSky but I do care about Ecobee. I'm never getting the PIN that it says I should be getting. I can post or look in another forum for that I suppose. Based on my problems above, I'm having trouble understanding just how to diagnose the problem and fix it. Would my life be simpler if I just got a Polisy (either new device, or raspberry pi?) Any answers to the above questions or pointers to existing docs on this would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I'll keep digging through.

Ah, both very useful! The fact that the I/O Linc is powerline only would totally help explain why it's only the garage doors that I'm having trouble with. Er, I mean I may be having trouble with other devices, but since they're dual band, I just don't notice the problems as much. I actually have a range extender in the garage, plugged into one of the other outlets in the garage, but I suppose if the noise is happening between where the I/OLinc is and when the range extender "sees" the signal, that could be a problem. So I'd think plugging the range extender into the same outlet as the I/OLinc might do the trick as I have another dual band switch in the garage anyway. Great to know about the LED bulbs! Right now I do have incandescents in the openers themselves. Probably from trying to fix this before.

Sigh, just found these two topics. The first one looks quite appropriate to me, the second was a topic on this very problem I tried to solve 2 years ago. Guess my memory is just full of noise too. I don't recall whether I checked my LED bulbs as the culprit. Gonna go do that now. Regardless, if anybody has anything else interesting to say, I'd still appreciate it. and

I have two IO Linc's connected to the two garage doors in my house. I'd say about 75% of the time they work exactly how I have them setup with the ISY programming. However, the other 25% of the time sometimes a door doesn't open/close when sent the request. I also experience errors in the ISY admin console indicating there is a problem communicating with the "Garage # sensor". If I query the device, it usually resolves the communications error (no more red exclamation points next to the device). I don't really have any sort of problem like this with any other sensor, device or ISY program in my home, and I have probably close to 100 Insteon devices. It's just the damn garage doors. The garage door openers are on their own circuit in my electrical panel. I do have a fridge in my garage, but it's not a big one and again it's not on the same circuit at least. But to be safe I put a filter-linc on it, thinking that that might be causing the problem. Nope. I've experimented putting filter-linc's on the garage door openers themselves to no avail as well. I've been kinda successfully living with this problem for about 2 years, but I'm finally fed up enough to try and get some advice. Any and all would be great. Thank you!

Really great info, MrBill! Yeah, this community is just one of the best I've experienced for anything. Yeah, I didn't think of having to re-add all my devices. That would be a pain. For now I just ordered a new serial PLM. Hopefully that at least buys me a couple more years.

Good to know about the PLM! And thanks for the info about how you use HA. With regard to the PLM fail problem, one thought I had (but it's ugly), is to move away from the PLM and instead use HA integrated with a true Insteon Hub. I don't think the hub requires a PLM as it is one (I think). All the programming I've depended on in the ISY would have to move to HA though. That's the ugly part. But in theory is this a possible option? Hmmm... I suppose this is an inappropriate question for this forum, since it implies leaving ISY... The only solace is that I've really liked how well the ISY has worked for me over the years!

One other thing though, MrBill, do you find yourself doing programming using HA exclusively now? Or are there situations where you still rely on programs in the ISY? I'm new to the HA world, but I'm thinking that it's likely going to support more devices than ISY will ever be able to support (even with the Polyglot stuff) and it can to integrate all of them. This question is totally off topic, I realize, but any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks for all the help here! After determining that I wasn't getting any events for ANY of my devices (including wired switches) I realized that this was more likely a problem on the PLM side. I found this article (INSTEON No Status Feedback From Devices - Universal Devices, Inc. Wiki (universal-devices.com) and followed the instructions. Lo and behold it found 0 links in the PLM. After restoring it all is working again. I'm not sure what happened, but perhaps it had to do with what MrBill indicated about "adjust scene" events accumulating. The fact that I had had a power outage happen while I was on vacation AND I adjusted the TLS settings for HA were just red herrings. I have updated to 5.3.3. So hopefully I won't see this again. Thanks again!

Note that it's possible that this has been happening for a longer time than just recently and I didn't notice. I don't depend so much on programs for my motion sensors and typically my door sensors only matter when I'm not home and somebody opens a door that shouldn't. Therefore, it's entirely possible I just failed to notice until now. Here's the version of the firmware I'm using. Perhaps 5.3.1 is buggy in this regard?

I'm at a loss. For some reason all of my sensors in the house are no longer showing status. It's simply blank. This screenshot was taken right after I manually pressed the Set button on one of my original Insteon MS's. No events, no status. The linked devices do turn on and off though so it's not a battery problem. I can even make my hidden door sensors beep from the admin console, so communication is possible. I'm getting the same problem for Door sensors and motion sensors I have in the house. What am I missing? Note that I just recently started playing around with Homeassistant and it's integration with the ISY. Could that be the source of the problem? I know I futzed with a TLS setting somewhere. Otherwise, Homeassistant successfully found my ISY and all the connected devices. I can control lights and such with it just fine.