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The act of closing the door is causing the program to re-evaluate during the wait period. You will have to break this program into two programs. Have this program turn the scenes on when the conditions are met. Have the second program turn off the scenes after 10 minutes. Tim

Installed 3.1.12 last night - no issues, went very smoothly. Thank you very much for fixing the DSCLink/WCLink error log problem. Tim

Here is a link to an example in another thread. http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7326

In order to “flash†a KPL button (in your case button H) you would need to create a scene and place that button in the new scene as a responder. Then create a new program with the condition you want (garage door open). Place the new scene in the Then section of the program turning the scene on wait x seconds then turn off the scene and repeat. The problem is every second or two the ISY is sending the scene on/off command – flooding the power lines with Insteon data. It would be very cool if you could have any kpl button flash on its own, maybe one day SH will add that feature to the firmware. Another alternative I have read about on this forum would be to change the color of the lens for the button. I have not tried so I am not sure how it would look. Tim

In that case, how about something as simple as adding a Notification to the query program, before and after the query, like this: If Time is 12:50:00AM Or Time is 5:50:00AM Or Time is 12:50:00PM Then Send Notification to 'Tim's email' content 'Full' Set Scene 'House' Query Send Notification to 'Tim's email' content 'Full' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Then time your normal query. When the program runs it will send a time stamped email before and after the query so you can compare the run times. Anything longer than your normal query will indicate some sort of communication error so you can remotely log on to see if there is a problem and which device might have caused it (by a red ! next to the device), or if the problem cleared itself up. Tim Edit: Or if you want fewer emails then try this: Create a new query such as this one or modify your existing query: Program: Query If Time is 1:15:00AM Then Set Scene 'House' Query Run Program 'Query ' (Else Path) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Next create a new program such as this: Program: Query Failed If Program 'Query' is True Then Wait 2 minutes Send Notification to 'Tim's email' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Set the wait time in Query Failed to be a bit longer than your average query takes. If the query takes longer than normal then the second program will fire off an email to you.

I only received a Low Batt signal once in 1 year with v2.0 MS, before that I have the v1.0 which were supposed to send Low Batt signals but didn’t. I had programs set up to send emails signaling the Low Batt conditions, only received 1 email and I had six MS! The thing that troubled me was that when the batteries got sufficiently low the MS could enter a state of randomly sending On signals. I had a couple of v2.0 which would constantly send an On signal to linked devices when the batteries were low. I would turn the devices Off and they would turn back on in minutes. Tim

I cannot say whether any of my programs missed running today, at least not that I noticed. However I can confirm that I too have many Last Run times and Last Finished time slots empty which were populated yesterday. My last ISY reboot was on Friday. Just checked the Program Summary tab and found the oldest Last Run time was at 1:15AM this morning which was the query program. The time change seems to reset all the status fields. The logs show activity up to and after the query, no data loss there. Seems Like we had this occur last time change as well. Thanks, Tim

Hello roadking2003, In the admin console > Programs > Details Page towards the bottom is "Schedule" button. If you uncheck "Daily" the calendar will appear. Press the button and configure you dates and times and press "Add to If" button. Here is the wiki page: http://www.universal-devices.com/mwiki/index.php?title=ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Schedule Tim Edit: Just noticed the wiki doesn't actually describe how to get the pull down menu for the calendar, but the first picture does show the "Daily" button unchecked.

Hi Mitch, Yes, Admin Console >Programs > Details. Then right click on any program or folder and select “Find/Replace.†Then in the popup window select “Insteon†or “Scene,†whichever would apply. Then select the device or the scene the device is in. Then hit “Find.†Tim

mrxmas, Just to clarify, you have unplugged the ISY’s PLM and all X10 plug in receivers and the X10 signal continues? Have they all been unplugged one at a time then plugged back in and also unplugged all at the same time?

Updated early this morning and all went very well. Thank you UDI Tim

Also, there can be no spaces in the name of the variable.

Hi andyf0, Just curious if you found the cause yet and whether the programs are running as expected? Tim

FWIW my plm is 40 wire feet from the panel which has a hardwired passive phase coupler. I have no AP's but do have 3 dualband plug in dimmers thru out the house which may or may not be on opposite legs, never tested.

apostolakisl, Out of curiosity have you tried removing some or all of your AP’s and running the tests?

NO. I am afraid you need the 2413S and the power supply ( http://www.smarthome.com/1223PS/Universal-Devices-ISY-Power-Supply/p.aspx) to run the ISY. Tim

Nice. Thanks Illusion! Over the course of installing 50+ devices in the last couple of years (not to mention replacement devices) I can think of a number of times that using these would have simplified the installation and allowed me to trim all the wires in the box shorter which would have freed up space and made putting the devices in the boxes a lot easier. I agree I wouldn’t use them everywhere, but certainly in some two-gang boxes and all three-gang and larger. I did a quick search, Amazon has the 5 position connector for about 57 cents each and another place http://www.galesburgelectric.com/Wago-222-415-LEVER-NUTS-5-Conductor-Compact-Connectors.html has them at 38 cents a piece. I think spending 38 cents a piece is well worth my spending 5 + minutes messing with all the excess wiring, or being in a position where I need a third or fourth hand! Thanks for posting Illusion, Tim Edit: Just checked the galesburgelectric.com site, they are 38 cents a piece but they hose you on shipping. Basically getting them from Amazon or this other place ends up costing about the same with shipping which was about 72 cents each....still worth it IMHO. If anyone finds them cheaper though please post. t

Here is a link to some problems others have had with Avast: http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6911&p=53044&hilit=+Avast+AV+#p53044 Hope it helps. Tim

What browser and antivirus are you running?

I am not sure what that means either but I hope someone can chime in to tell us. To test IndyMikes theory can you open the event viewer and run your tests to see if the ISY is detecting a 2nd off, when you get the time.

A second off, like an echo? That would explain the program running. Surely the event view would capture that right?

apostolakisl, Odd, I set up a couple of switches using your exact original program in the first post. It worked 100% of the time. Light was on, turned it off and it stayed off. Light was off, turned it off, it turned on. The first switch I tested was an Icon relay controlling a 4’ fluorescent light. So then I thought perhaps it was an issue with dimmers. I set up the program to control the load of a 6 button kpl dimmer. Still worked 100% of the time. I then set the program up on a SL dimmer. Same thing, worked like a champ. I don’t get it. I know in the past, a long time ago I had issues with this type of program so I used the fast off method. But now it seems to work in my system. Granted I haven’t tested it for days or weeks, nor have I tested it 50 or 100 times, but probably 20 or 30 times over a 15 minute period….with 100% success rate. So that leads me to wonder – what is the difference between our systems? I am running 3.1.9. The switches I have tested are within 2 years old. The kpl is v.36, the SL dimmer is v.38 and the Icon relay is v.39. 1500sq ft house with about 70 devices with 2412s plm. Just had a thought, do you have the newer 2413 plm? I have heard they process a bit quicker than the 2412, could that be a possible reason why you are experiencing the bounce? Tim Edit: Have you tried changing the status from "Off" to "< 5%" or something similar?

Thats a great deal, but remember that the plm is not included.

You hit the nail on the head. Some of my old config's did use all lower case. I haven't used wol for, well, a very long time. So I didn't notice until I tried using them. Thank you for the info., Tim

Hi Michel, I am not sure yet about the WOL issue yet. That ip address is the computer running the DSCLink and 2 WCLink's. The error log isn't nearly as large as it was during 3.1.6, but it is larger than previous 3.1.6 releases. Thanks, Tim