mikewu99

D'oh. Thanks

Long time ISY user here, haven't changed anything on my ISY 994i 1024 IR in a few years (it just works). Wanted to try integrating a new Bond Bridge. I was at version 4.9 something, figured I should upgrade to 5.3.4. Backed up, performed the upgrade, cleared Java cache. Now my User ID and Password do not work. Any ideas?

FWIW here is SmartHome's answer when I asked about PLM availability:

It never made sense to me that SmartHome did not support UD/ISY. At my main house I have 37 SwitchLincs (dimmers and switches), 6 KeypadLincs, 3 FanLincs, and 7 Micro On/Offs. I also had six Insteon thermostats until a complete HVAC replacement forced me to dump them. Plus 7-8 plug-in modules that I use for decorative/holiday lighting. No way I could manage that many devices without my ISY. That's a lot of $ in SmartHome's pockets (not counting the Insteon and X-10 stuff I bought from them and left at the previous house). Plus they sell an $80 PLM with every ISY - that's what they are selling their Insteon Hub for. In other words, they make the same revenue from an ISY sale as they do from a Hub sale (and probably a higher margin). Insane. That said, if for some reason my ISYs (I just bought my fourth ISY for a vacation home) lose the ability to work with Insteon (due to dying PLMs or whatever) I have too much invested in Insteon to switch over to Z-Wave. I don't fiddle too much with the ISY at home much, I've had the programs I need running for years. It's an appliance and it just works.

I have an email from Smarthome customer support also saying that they were being discontinued due to "low sales". I also notice that the 2413S PLM is showing as "Sold Out", fortunately I was able to get one of two that were left on Amazon to go with the ISY I just ordered. If Smarthome discontinues the PLM, where will that leave UD ans the ISY?

I did notice while browsing that colors other than white also seem to be unavailable. Maybe also part of the thinning out. I could use a SwitchLinc On/Off with the frame and rocker removed, stuck in a junction box with a blank cover plate. Much less elegant solution, and a bit more work.

This really, really stinks. I went to buy three Micro On/Off switches for some under counter lighting and not available. My plan was to put a micro switch inside each under counter light fixture and use an Insteon wall on/off strictly as a controller of the micro switches. I've done this at another house and it works great. I will look at the Z-Wave Aeotec Nano, although it look substantially larger than the Insteon Micro. Is the a Z-Wave equivalent to the Insteon wall switch that can be used simply as a controller for the Nanos? This might be the start of my migration away from Insteon, although I have several dozen Insteon devices in use.

I have a bunch of warm glow BR30s in recessed lights. I just checked using MobiLinc and they definitely turn on at 10% (the finest resolution I can get through MobiLinc) and seem to increase smoothly in brightness as I step up 20%, 30%, etc. I really chose these bulbs because their light gets warmer as they dim. I find the unchanging color temperature of all other dimmable LEDs creepy at low light levels. The superior dimming performance is just a bonus. I bought them in packs of six from Amazon for a little less than $6 per bulb. Also, not all Philips bulbs are warm glow - they will be specifically identified as such. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

(1) I though an 8 button KPL also has two buttons which control the load (one ON and one OFF). Why are there eight scenes available and not seven? (2) In a 6 button KPL what is the effect of setting the toggle mode of the ON/OFF switch to Non-Toggle On? Does that make only the ON button functional? (3) The scenes I am controlling are all collections of thermostat settings. I would only be turning one of the scenes on, there is really no situation where I would turn a scene off. What happens when you turn off a scene which only contains thermostats?

Thanks for the reply. It is not clear from any documentation that the KPL could have 5 scenes in 6-button mode and 8 scenes in 8 button mode - that is just counterintuitive. Unfortunately right now I am remotely programming a KPL at a vacation home, so I am stuck for the time being since switching to 8 button mode required manual intervention...

I have a 6 button KPL that I am using as a controller only (no load). I would like each of the six buttons to be used independently as scene controllers. However, when I add the KPL to the ISY I only get five devices(one for the KPL and one for each of buttons A, B, C, and D). Is it possible to use the ON button to control one scene and the OFF button to control another? There would need to be six devices added to the ISY to make this work, not five. I can't find anything in the wiki or in the SH manual. Am I missing something basic here?

Still seems to me all you are looking for is a page in the web interface which contains a combination of devices and scenes, preferably only those devices and scenes which you select. You should be able to do this yourself with some hacking of the html code from the default web interface. I made a custom home page which contains a subset of my scenes - basically I took the source html from the "scenes" page (generated by the isy), edited out the parts I didn't want, changed some text, and saved the resulting html to the /USER/WEB directory of the isy. You should be able to do something similar by cutting and pasting from both the "scenes: source and the "devices" source. More elegant solutions are possible using the REST interface, but my html skills are quite limited...

I think the OP is discussing the default web interface. With the default interface "Devices" is one sub-window and "Scenes" is a different sub-window. He would like to have his devices and his N-way scenes in the same sub-window. The solution would be for him to modify the web interface to suit his preferences. Of course, I could be completely misunderstanding the OP.

Then why does the web interface have the buttons to control them directly???? If I try to control the buttons from a scene, the mutually exclusive feature seems not to work - I have a scene which turns one of the buttons on, but the other button which was previously on does not turn off (at least the web interface show the button still on, the actual KPL is 120 miles away right now)...do I need to add all four buttons as responders to the scene?

I am having some difficulty activating buttons on a (6-button) KPL from the web interface (not the administrative console) using the "action buttons" on the "Devices" page . (1) The main on/off works fine. (2) The four secondary buttons do not work - if I hit any of the action buttons (on or off) for any of the secondary buttons I get a dead link ("Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"). (3) The four secondary buttons are set up as mutually exclusive. (4) I use the main on/off and each of the secondary buttons to trigger programs which change settings on multiple thermostats. The main on/off action buttons trigger the appropriate programs correctly but the secondary action buttons don't. (5) Physically pressing the buttons on the KPL does trigger the programs correctly. I am trying to replicate button presses on the KPL remotely. (6) I am running firmware version 2.7.15. Is this a bug, an unsupported feature, or something I have set up wrong?[/i]