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Congratulations to the UDI team for attaining the Z-Wave Plus Certification!!! Many thanks to @Chris Jahn and @Michel Kohanim for their undying effort and support!

We need to remember that 5.x.x is not an official software release and we are the "test bed". On the flip side, 5.x.x offers more features and functionality than 4.x.x, in bringing ISY up to today's level of functionality. I am not pro or con. I too experienced major frustration in my 3x attempts at update. However ISY is purring along once again with 5.2.

I realize that 5.2.0 is not "released" software and we are using it at our own risk. All my devices are currently 300 series. I have recently installed a 500 series module and 5.2.0 in an effort to be more compatible with newer devices. So far all is good for me but I read about a lot of communication problems and the inability for the ISY to see certain devices without moving them close. My question is: Is there a problem with 5.2 that will rear it's ugly head when I add more devices and door locks?

@bcdavis75 Look at FortrezZ Mimo. It is ZWave, 2 inputs and 2 relay outs.

Not at a computer to look it up this morning. I did a search on 300 to 500 series update or upgrade. It is short but it says to do a zwave restore and that makes all good.

@matapan After you load 5.2 you need to do a ZWave restore. Follow the detail instructions in the Wiki not the web site. Had the same problem as you yesterday.

Kind of torques me a bit.

Sent you a message with code. Hope it helps.

I have a couple of line programs for each device that collects failures, writing the count to variables. Twice a day at a set time the ISY sends me a list of errors, if there is any. If there is multiple errors on a device I get a text & email right away.

I have been using Gmail for years. I send both text and email for alarm messages. I can say that 90% of the time the both arrive within seconds. Sometimes one may be a minute later. I attribute it to the "internet" which is not 100% dependable. In my case I am not sure if it is Gmail or AT&T. I sometimes see that Outlook struggles to retrieve email from both my Gmail and AT&T accounts.

@madcodger I don't have any Homeseer battery devices but do have several Aeotec. I have had to place each of them in a plastic box with C batteries because AAA don't last. They also do not report battery low conditions well, later finding the device has been dead for days. I have written a program for each that counts errors. By this and text messages I can sometimes tell if one is awry. My eventual plan is to get rid of these units and replace with something else. As for temperature, I have found nothing ZWave that is reliable. Tags are a good choice. Good luck..

Thanks @lilyoyo1, excellent write up.

Hi all....I was reading the messages here and found myself checking out tags on the Wireless Sensor site. I see where they communicate with a tag manager device to the cloud. Not being a proponent of the cloud, is it possible for the ISY to communicate directly with the tag manager through Policy or Polyglot (not using the cloud)? Thanks.

I have some alarms with and without conditional folders to incorporate an enable/disable. Either way flags or conditional folders you still get a slight delay. I have tried to minimize using multiple levels of programs, etc. to generate an audible alarm as soon as possible. In some cases you can't. It is against my programming ways but here inline is best.

Hello Derek.......lilyoyo1 is right on. Thought I may pass on my ISY experience as another old schooler. I think you are referring to a list or array of sensors and having your program index into them. Unfortunately no you cannot do that. I have broken my programs up into a main with a "sub program" that does a function like turn on an audible alarm, using the sub program in many other places. However, I have found that this will delay the sub program action a few hundred ms. It will also skew the action with other incoming events and may cause a busy processor. Since I have experienced this, I have changed critical programs to straight inline code with no "sub programs" other than setting variables, etc. I have also found that adding an "IF" qualification to a folder can cause additional delay. Good luck.

Thanks for the post. I realize your system is different than mine but it gives me a feel for how much you can stuff in that little black box.

Hi jgcharlotte….I have been round and round using both gmail and bellsouth. Bottom line, I found that from time to time I too get random errors as you do, more so for text messages. So I use emails with Gmail. Unfortunately Gmail it is not 100% and sometimes it takes as much as an hour to receive the email. I have never been able to put a finger why. Best of luck.

Hope this helps, these are my gmail SMTP settings:

Thanks lilyoyo1 for the reply. Sorry to repeat questions. I usually get emails on forum topics but must have missed some. Best regards..

All & @Michel Kohanim I have read pretty much everything that has been advertised or posted about Polisy. I may have missed something as I still have some simple questions/clarifications: The UDI web site says Polisy is "Your gateway to integrating everything and anything with your ISY". Is Polisy a back end attached device or can it be a total replacement for ISY, or both? Does the October unit come with ZWave? Does it have an ethernet interface to your LAN as does the ISY? What is the intended use of the internal WIFI? What are the differences between the Pro and Standard? Will the API's (REST, etc.) be the same or do I need to write new code? Will my 5.0.14 programming and ZWave configuration be transportable to Polisy? What features will not be in the October run? As always thanks for the assistance.

Hi Michel. I have had at least three instances, that I know of, over the last month that the ISY has stopped processing commands. I wanted to try to get more of a handle on it before I asked for assistance. Unfortunately I failed to collect the log. The last time it occurred an LED was suppose to illuminate on two Homeseer WD200+ dimmers and an audible driven by a MIMO Lite was suppose to sound when a specific gate opened (Aeotec Door/Window sensor). This is all program driven and very reliable. The gate opened nothing happened. I immediately went to the admin console and saw a communications error to a different Aeotec (battery type) sensor. The gate status was correct but the associated program did not run. I tried a couple of commands of on/off light commands through the console and nothing. Then a minute or so later I got the door annunciations and all the door on/offs and all was good. Thanks for the concern. I will be back with you when I can capture an entire event.

Modbus would have been nice but simple was the order of the day. 485 was serial byte string address,8 contact inputs, x analog inputs, data length, CRC, binary packed data. Spoke too soon on ISY reliability. It "hung" twice in the last week and came back to life.

DCARD...Spent almost a lifetime with PDP-8, PDP-11, LSI-11 and then VAX. My company originally used PDP-11/34's and 35's for the control system, having only 128K words of memory. Color graphic displays were with Aydin video controllers. The system controlled a pipeline, calculated flows, did leak detection, other system interface, and had a graphic interface all in realtime. All "determination" type logic in my system is done in the ISY. It is the most reliable part. Any required data from the Beagles is sent to the ISY as well as Apache. All display comes from Apache running on an old Windows computer. Everything is written around Apache in C, cURL, JavaScript, and a little PHP. For display I grab data from the ISY and Beagles with Apache and serve up a web page. Any "real time" alarms are done through my own audible annunciators (Zwave) and text messages from the ISY. I like the idea of low power and strive for it but my junk box parts do not always lend to it.

Hi dcard..The Home Automation area is not at all like the industrial automation I am use to. Where if something fails or does not work as described there is a finite reason. A reboot or reinstall is not an acceptable fix. This just means I cannot trust my system. It will fail again. My original foray into data collection was 8051's on a 485 com line. Then 8051 with ethernet. All were my designs written in assembly & C. At retirement I decided to learn about something new and picked the Beagle because it was built well and not widely used like the Pi. It was to be a challenge to learn the hardware and Linux (and it has been). As far as hardware interface for CT's I use an AD736 and what ever is in my junk box; LM224, 308, 311, 741, 324...The A/D is a MAX172. These are all old discrete parts but real design is fun. I am not looking for speed. This Beagle monitors temp, voltage and power then reports back any change in the house 240V feed. All of my "devices" talk over their own hardwire LAN, no WIFI. There are other devices out there that could do this for less than $250, but the best part is I control the hardware and software. All device data including ISY is collected through JavaScript programming and Apache server. My ISY mainly does open/close detection of doors and gates as well as light control and audible alarm annunciation along with text messages. By the way, I use the MIMO2+ to drive mechanically latching relays (P&B/Tyco) for my exterior flood lights. One input tells me if the circuit is on/off the other tells me the status of the relay pair. ISY software is used to select the appropriate relay depending on the state. Unfortunately the antique relay control is a hold over from my early days of X-10. Any input, comments, pointers or welcome.

Yes it does not match the Fortrezz spec sheet. I found that I had to use .8V to 2 volts input, This seemed to be the closest reasonably linear segment, not enough range. I considered doing curve segment breakpoints with a look up table or a curve fit but that was beyond the ISY. My solution was to use the MIMO2+ inputs for contact inputs from switches. I wound up with a Beaglebone black, and an 12-bit A/d to measure my house current. It sends Rest commands to the ISY setting the appropriate variables with the current (amps). Good luck..