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Oh great, will study up! Thanks

Yea familiar with but not proficient at the "Portal". I see Alexa and IFTTT tools but still not totally getting how do do this

Ok, longtime ISY user, not so much using Alexa integration and IFTTT. I bought a YoLink motion sensor (cheap and just to play with), and thought it would be a good learning experience to learn IFTTT and Alexa integration. So any suggestion to get started? meaning, want to use the motion sensor to trigger either IFTTT or Alexa (not sure which or both) to turn on my ISY controlled light for 5 minutes and then turn off it not another motion detected (just like an insteon motion sensor). Any help getting started is appreciated

I tried a Zwave motion sensor with my isy some time ago, with poor results due to isy in the office in the house and the Zwave motion sensor in the garage some 50ft away. I see where there is talk of repeaters around the house to solve this. But to me this is moving backwards from insteon that both its wireless and power line communications is a superb solution. I really do not want to put repeaters all around my house to use Zwave devices that insteon does not have a similar device. Is there such a thing as one device that will take zwave signal and conver to to insteon powerline signals ? or some other more convenient solution?

Duh ? I did not realize it was Zwave. I have not experimented with zwave for a while, but last time I did, one located in my garage vs isy in office had spotty communication. I guess I need some type of relay?

how do you add the Zooz sensors? D you just add it as a Smarthome motion sensor?

This is residential and I do have an isy with many Insteon devices. Yes, the whole purpose is to remotely boot without internet

Many years ago I replaced all of my x10 devices with Insteon and never looked back!...Until today! Of course I can access insteon device remotely, but only if the internet is working. I just got back from my vacation home, and while up there my cable modem needed to be rebooted at home. No way to do this without internet access at home. Years ago I used to control X10 device at my cabin remotely via a telephone X10 Responder, worked pretty good. Now I am thinking of resurrecting that old method (yes, I still have a landline), unless someone else can come up with a better solution of remotely rebooting a cable modem or router i.e. no internet access Thx

I took out the Insteon outlet and Still have the problem. Then covered the outlet with a plastic bag and so far it has not tripped again so I determined that it’s moisture in the outlet nothing to do with Insteon. So I replace the total outlet with a new one with a brand new cover and we’ll see if that fixes the problem, if I go back to have an Insteon controlled outlet I will use the outdoor module. Thanks everybody for their suggestions

I took out the Insteon outlet, and replaced with a regular power outlet. If no problems then that was the culprit, if not will research further. Thanks all!

Yea, happened last night when it rained (but rain is not always the culprit)

Hi, I have a GFIC socket in my garage. Downstream from the GFIC the wire goes to an outside outlet box (since outside that is why I have it on a GFIC circuit) Inside that outside outlet I have for the socket an Insteon outlet (2663-222), and plugged into that Insteon outlet is a fountain, so I can remotely control the fountain. 99% of the time it woks fine, but about once every month or two the GFIC flips. So any thoughts? 1) It may or may not be the Insteon socket that is tripping the GFIC, not sure 2) Maybe the Insteon sockets are not rated for outdoors 2) OK to have an insteon socket downstream from a GFIC? 4) worst case I could replace the Insteon socket with a normal socket and use "Insteon Remote Control Plug-in On/Off Module Outdoor" Thanks in advance for any thoughts

OK, thanks, seems I don't really have the need, but nice to know!

been a long time isy user, but despite reading the details on Polisy it still kind of escapes me. so the Polisy is not a isy replacement but accessory to integrate other protocols? if so how does the isy use that capability in its programs?

Suppose I have a scene that I want to change the light brightness level of certain light in the scene. I update the scene for the brightness level of that light, but then I need to go and change the controllers in that scene for the light brightness level also. There used to be something like "update from the scene" that would easily update my controller in that scene, but seems tho have disappeared. Any other easy way to make "universal adjustment" to the controller from the scene setting?

Yipee! it was the power supply! Got one of those universal power adapters with the different connectors, and picked the right one. Interesting that isy reset password to admin...but in any case its working!

Oh my, don't think it was related, but was installing a new Z-wave device today. It installed and worked fine, hours later, isy not working. Power led blinking dim then bright. Any ideas? Joe

so, what do you use if MSII are not good, as original MS are no longer sold, are they?

I have had some MS controlling scenes for some time. For some reason they have stopped working correctly. To debug I have reduced the program to the simplest possible program, but it still does not work right. It seems to ignore my KPL status and turn the light off even if the KPL is turned on Workbench MS off Copy - [ID 0002][Parent 0022] If 'Old Garage MS' is switched Off And 'Garage KPL / Garage KPL B' Status is Off Then Wait 2 seconds Set 'Workbench On-Off Module' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') I am doing this so if the workbench on/off module is turned by a scene that includes the KPL -B then the MS will not turn off the workbench module off I have done this "forever" but cant seem to get it to work now

OK, I know I am doing something wrong. My programs stopped working and there is a red line on the left of the program icon. The programs are enabled, what wrong? Thx Joe

Thnaks for the link. I have tried hooking up directly to the router, no luck. I opened a UDI support ticket and the recommendation is to try to check all three boxes when clearing the Java cache. I will try that when I get home, but seems very odd that sometimes I can "kind of login" under the admin default rather than my id and pass. very strange, but will see tonight Joe

well...now it seems, probably due to a power outage today also, that I cannot communicate with two device. but also I still keep getting the socket failure warning. Any ideas?

Never mind!...for some reason it defaulted to admin

Have a new computer. installed Java, but despite the admin counsel seeing my isy, I cannot login. I know the user ID and password, but after several attempts it stops and give me a socket error

Thanks! Yes, I think the scene that cause the problem has an on/off module in it. Is is a motion sensor scene to turn on a on/off module to turn on the garage lights and I think the "all on" happened when someone went into the garage. , so I will unplug and replug. Glad I am not the only one