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@Teken, I know everything is relative and I'm becoming less tolerant of the cold and winter in general but that is COLD!!! I can't imagine working for extended periods of time outside at those temps... Here's a GEOS-16 loops of the "bomb cyclone", it's pretty self explanatory. Working on (climbing??) a communications tower no less with no or very little margin for screw-ups.

I do have a Jotul propane stove in the kitchen so I fired that up right away. When I ran out I started Googling and found a NYT article about shortages like you mentioned so I was preparing for the worst and was very relieved when I got the delivery that quickly..

Brutal cold snap across Northeast, Midwest, and even down South in US from late Dec to early Jan saw temps below 15F on average and some days around 5F for a high combined with the "bomb cyclone" caused supply issues with home heating oil and propane, and threw off autodelivery calculations.. I knew in the back of my mind I was due soon so shame on me for not taking a peak at the oil tank gauge. Hasn't ever been an issue before, they usually autodeliver spot on between 1/4 to 1/3 of a tank. I was out of the house overnight for less than 24hrs and it had already dropped to 42F inside with an outside temp around 5-10F. Fortunately when I got home and realized they screwed up and I called 24/7 emergency service, they sent a tech out within 3 hours to put in 10 gallons and prime the burner. Had a full delivery within 10hrs. Luckily I wasn't away longer so no burst pipes, etc. I talked to the tech and he was non-stop with the same calls, I wasn't the only one... House is c1850 and isn't the tightest and most energy efficient...

No problem. Operating temp should be fine for my purposes, it's for inside use and if it drops below 50F again there's a problem!

Thanks for the input. I looked at this prior to going with the 2441ZTH as a quick and dirty, albeit flawed and not foolproof solution. I may end up adding it for redundancy/backup. I do not have the Z-Wave module in my ISY. According to the sticker inside its Revision 1.6 4816 and ISY reports firmware v0.E.

So far I'm seeing +/- 3F Temp and +/1 Humidity in my logs.

Thanks good suggestions I added humidity to the heartbeat as well.

Thanks, I'll check the event viewer and my logs and if it's a problem on battery power I already had a DC adapter on the way .

After coming home from being away to a 42F degree house due to an empty oil tank (automatic delivery FAIL), I was looking for a quick and inexpensive way to add a temperature sensor to my ISY/Insteon HA system. I currently do not have any Smarthome Thermostats controlling my heating system. I do have Smarthome leak sensors and have used resources on here as a guide to set up alerts (email/text/Pushover on iOS) as well as monitor health via a heartbeat variable. I did a search of the forums to see if someone had already posted a how-to guide to set this up but didn't find anything specific. If someone has already or this has been discussed already and this is duplicating prior efforts, I apologize in advance. I picked up a 2441ZTH without the DC power adapter, powered it up with AA batteries and added it to my ISY which identified it correctly (ISY v4.6.2, 2441ZTW firmware v0.E). So far tested and working fine. Any questions, critiques, or a better way of doing it let me know. Variable (State): Thermostat.Heartbeat: Init 2 Program: Trouble.Variable Even on battery power only, the 2441ZTH will report any change in temperature of .5 or more. I'll use this as a heartbeat and if a temperature change hasn't been reported within 12 hours a trouble condition will be set (Thermostat.Heartbeat = 0). Each change in temperature resets the 12hrs wait thereby keeping the Thermostat.Heartbeat variable at 1 unless the unit malfunctions or loses power, or by some weird atmospheric condition the temperature inside at the thermostat does not vary by +/- .5 degrees. Hopefully over time this will not result in any false positives. For those wondering, I tried using If Thermostat Main is not Responding but it didn't work in my testing. Trouble.Variable - [iD 006C][Parent 0069] If Status 'Thermostat - Main' >= 1° (Temperature) Then $Thermostat.Heartbeat = 1 Wait 12 hours $Thermostat.Heartbeat = 0 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Program: Thermostat.Trouble Send notification if no temp change has been reported within 12 hrs. Thermostat.Trouble - [iD 006A][Parent 0069] If $Thermostat.Heartbeat is 0 Then Send Notification to 'Brian' content 'Thermostat.Trouble' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Program: LowTemp.Alarm 2441ZTH mode set to Heat and Heat setpoint set to 50F on unit. If temperature drops to 50F and a heat demand request is sent, trigger notification. LowTemp.Alarm - [iD 006B][Parent 0069] If Status 'Thermostat - Heat Ctl' is On Then Resource 'Pushover.Low.Temp.Alarm' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I've had a similar blinking/unresponsive issue with a 2486D 6-button v.39. It seemed to only happen in colder weather, but now it has been happening more frequently. I can get it out of this blinking/unresponsive mode by going into the mode to adjust the keypad backlight. I've tried resetting & factory resetting which seem to resolve the issue for a while, but it inevitably returns. I'm convinced there's a problem with the unit itself which needs to be replaced.

Another option would be to use an IFTTT recipe to trigger your scene. "Alexa, trigger fans".

Under program actions for an Insteon device, you have the option in the pulldown list for the device to beep.

Here's one for getting notified on my LaMetric when an Insteon exterior motion detector detects motion: Program: LaMetric.Front.Motion - [iD 002B][Parent 0001] If Control 'Motion.Front-Sensor' is switched On Then Resource 'LaMetric.Front.Motion' Wait 20 seconds Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Network Resource (LaMetric.Front.Motion): POST /trigger/LaMetricFrontMotion/with/key/[your_key_here] HTTP/1.1 Host: maker.ifttt.com:443 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 Connection: Close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 0 IFTTT Recipe:

Had the same issue. Power cycled ISY, cable modem & router. Issue resolved.

Thanks Mike. I bit the bullet for 2 sets of custom etched keys but will go DIY from here on in.