MrBill

It's not intuitive, but after changing the setting you must push the button to the left. Are you doing that?

Disclaimer: I've not tried nor tested, just located the option. I'm using V5.x firmware, if you're still using V4 Firmware, YMMV On the configuration tab in the clock box click change location. Choose one of the Brazil Locations, all of which state Daylight Saving Rule is OFF, or use a custom location and set the Daylight Saving Rule dropdown to OFF (located at the TOP of the list.)

@IT Solutions I can only say... I don't have ELK, so I can't comment on how ELK interacts within the IF statement, I do know how ISY works tho and I'd find it unusual that the 3 right click run don't behave as expected unless a folder condition was turning them off.

After I read that sentence a second time, it made me wonder about Folder Conditions... If the folder the program is in or ANY FOLDER ABOVE IT is False, Right click Run, Run Then or Run Else will be prevented. That's about the only way for a right click Run, Run Then or Run Else to not run.

I can't get mine to behave the way you're saying. Specifically i used this Program to Test: AA TEST - [ID 0103][Parent 0001] If Program 'AAA TEST' is True Then $stemp_test += 1 Else $stemp_test += 1000 When I started AAA TEST was false. Clicking this programs Run Then and Run Else from the RIght click context menu changed the color of the left bar on the icon every time. then I changed the value of AAA TEST to true and repeated alternating Run Then and Run Else, every time I did so it worked as expected changing the color of the left bar. Then I disabled the program above and continued to test... still not seeing the observations you are reporting. What is the content of the IF statement of the program that you don't think is changing? Perhaps its being re-evaluated immediately? I also just tried it with a schedule 8:00AM to 5:00PM and then clicked run Else and the band as expected turned red, even tho the schedule is still true. (Because the IF portion of a simple schedule is only evaluated AT 8:00 and AT 5:00PM and NOT constantly between those times.

I should add that you can use that program state, True or False in the IF statement of another program. If you have a program that should always be True or always be False or be True or False at a certain time, or certain time period, or maybe if variable $Test = 1 AND Program XYZ is False.... then..... else and so on...... Caveat: Watch out for Programs with identical names for example i have 8 or 12 programs all with the name "Alexa.on" but in different folder.... the If Program 'Alexa.on" is True phrase won't work. It Finds the first instance, not necessarily the instance you meant.

They show the state of the program, True or False... another way of thinking about it is which ran last Then or Else... very much similar to the full green or red folder, except they have already finished everything they will do until triggered again. Also means "Running" specifically running ELSE, whereas the all green version in your example is Running THEN.

It's been awhile since I was on V4, but it seems like V4.x to V4.y there's a prompt at the top of the admin console window that says firmware update available--And then clicking that or, something on help would download the file and upgrade automatically. I could be wrong it's been awhile and I don't see a page in the wiki showing that. Upgrading 4 to 5 or 5 to 5, you definitely must download the file and use the "manual upgrade" option on the Admin Consoles Help menu.

I initially read the bolded sentence below to mean the PLM wasn't being found, especially with the first sentence. However before I even his post I wondered if this was about finder not finding.... so I added the OR... The leased devices from Comcast are all-in-one Modem/Router/Wifi access points. The only case it could be a modem only is if its Customer owned modem, but if you've reached the point of buying a stand alone modem then you likely know you need a router too.

Oh and I forgot to comment on that statement. It is hard to find electricians that will touch an Insteon system. They don't have a clue, and the learning curve is high. My wife previously owned a high end lighting store. We actually stocked X10 for the DIYer's. X10 was much easier to understand, put this on B1 and this on B1 and they will (maybe) talk to each other, Insteon has to be linked and in simple 1:1 relationships its only difficult to do manually.... it more complex relationships you have to understand the ISY.

It would take me much more than "an hour or two explaining things". For the full picture there's ISY, Polisy, Insteon, Hue, Pentair/Autellis, Home Assistant, Rachio, the weather station, CAO wireless tags, and lately some Kasa.... It would take "an hour or two' just to get everything on new accounts or pass on existing accounts to new owners, and that's before anything has been "explained". And yea I really couldn't pic and choose which of those systems to leave behind because they all relate.... for example the CAO tags play a part in the fireplaces working via Insteon, and completed scenes bridge hue and insteon many places. Unfortunately it would take a very special buyer to understand and appreciate what's here. I wonder if your 30+ switches were really defective or just older single band devices that seemed to break because of noise.... that seems like an excessive amount of switches to die.

5.0.9 to 5.3.2 will be fairly straight forward.

My wife and I have been debating another move, which has had me debating this very question. I think I'm going to remove Insteon and ISY. My system isn't well documented and I suspect that it won't help sell the house. I may leave a few pieces behind, for example the lower patio when we bought the house had everything on one switch. I may leave the items the item that make that situation more livable, but I'll take the ISY. Other things like the sprinkler controller, and the liftmaster bridge I'll leave behind (newer liftmaster joins wifi without the bridge) As I said in another thread just recently, I don't want the phone call "hey most of the light switches aren't working", "Oh you must have plugged in something that generates line noise, start by unplugging everything", "no it's supposed to work"...... or worse a call from a real estate attorney. The other thread is in two pieces for some reason but see here and here for related reading.

It's always interesting to see who can recognize..... even with the graphic the younger set has no clue.... I'm not certain what method is employed to find the ISY on the network, but the finder isn't always good at it. My preference and I believe the best practice is to set an IP Reservation in your router, so that DHCP always gives ISY the same IP address, that way if finder comes up empty you know what to add without further ado. (I use easy to remember IP slots for devices that I might need to know the IP of...like 192.168.1.99 for the ISY) The funny thing is some routers want the reserved address outside the DHCP pool, some what it as part of the DHCP pool, and some don't care as long as it's an IP on the same logical network.

I can’t remember what the bugs in 5.0.9 were, and I doubt anyone else here can either, that version is a couple years old, and to be blunt—things were buggier back then. Please upgrade to ISY firmware 5.3.2 which is very stable. Caveat: If you have a 300 series z-wave board you must upgrade to 5.0.16C instead. If you have a z-wave board it’s likely a 300 series board based on the ages of the firmware that you’re randomly loading. UDI does have special pricing to upgrade the z-wave board.

I’m not sure what weird DNS problem or routing issue you were having. However the ISY is making an outbound connection to the portal, and doesn’t care what your IP address is. You mention port forwarding is still set up but that also has nothing to do with the portal. In fact, the one of the advantages of the portal is that you don’t need open ports/port forwarding. The portal truly doesn’t care what your IP address is. I have a dual WAN router. If my primary connection goes down the router automatically failsover to LTE, at which point the IP changes of course. I’ve tested repeatedly the portal and ISY don’t care, after a very brief period offline at failover, the ISY reestablishes contact with the portal.

The Insteon PLM needs to be plugged in first. Wait for the green light to be solid green....THEN plug in the ISY. or... do you mean finder appears on your screen but doesn’t find the ISY? That’s a different issue, in short look through your router interface and see if you can locate the ISY’s IP address, then use the ADD button in finder to add “http://w.x.y.y/desc” to finder, replace w.x.y.z with the IP address you found.

Thanks for checking it out in the google ecosystem, I thought the same approach would likely work.

That's a good thing to know! I wonder why they don't update the wiki?

I wonder if the problem is the 32gb card? According to the wiki 16gb is the max.

It's an interesting topic. Last summer I decided that my SD card was old, however still working fine. I decided to order a new card just to have on hand (I've even debated proactively replacing it, but haven't so far the new one is still in it's package). At that point I looked up the max size (the wiki says 16gb) and then ordered a SanDisk Ultra which was a Category 10 card, the only rating a knew to look for at that time. Turns out the one I ordered doesn't have and A1 or A2 rating, just Category 10. Also in that same "other thread" it was mentioned that likely 1 in 20 of all cards just has a short life, and no-name off brands can be far worse than recognized brands OR be just as a good as the recognized brands, its entirely unpredictable.

In a recent discussion on another social media I was introduced to A1 and A2 performance ratings on memory cards. It's hard to find these ratings on the smaller (thus older) cards, however here's a 16GB SanDisk Ultra card that carries the A1 rating (the wiki says 16gb will work with an ISY-994) In short A2 and is better than A1 but either is better than a memory card that carries neither rating. I won't try to explain the ratings but here's a link at sdcard.org discussing. The specific topic being discussed on the other site was the best memory card to buy for a rPi 4 running Home Assistant. The contributor that suggested cards with A1 or better yet A2 ratings (all of which are also Category 10... a different rating) claimed to an engineer from an unnamed hard drive manufacturer and I have no reason to doubt his words. I've looked for the thread a few times so I could link here and I can't seem to find it.

I've just edited the post above to reflect the use of an "integer" variable in Method 1. A State variable is not needed for that usage and in fact, anytime the properties offered by using a state variable are not needed an Integer variable should be used. (On smaller system it likely makes not difference, but on larger systems avoid overuse of state variables as they contribute to the queue full error we sometimes encounter.) (also notable: the literal definition of Integer doesn't apply. In V5 firmware Integer variables can have precision or decimal places.)

It can be done two ways: Method 1) use program to assign the value to a variable. (remember to change the precision to match the number of decimal places). for the IF portion of the program use something that will always be true for example: (note: I don't use the Ambient node server this example is from a different node server) AA TEST - [ID 0103][Parent 0001] If 'Node Servers / MeteoBridge Weather / Temperatures' Temperature > -50.0°F Then $iTemp_test = 'Node Servers / MeteoBridge Weather / Temperatures' Temperature °F Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') In the above example ANYTIME the temp changes the IF will be evaluated. We assume that the outdoor temp is always above -50F so therefor this program will run and be true ANYTIME the temp changes, therefor THEN will update the value of the variable. (if we wanted to we could also duplicate the THEN statement as the ELSE statement, so if for some reason the IF was false, the temp would still update). then use that variable in the email... in this case ${var.1.63} (but you can't see my variable list so 63 is the ID number in the far left column of the state variable list. Method 2) use the value of the node as a text replacement. Start in the admin console: Make a note of the Node Name, this one is straight forward, but it might be a seemingly random value rather than a name--the first part of the name N007 is the slot number of this node server in your ISY. Also note the current value of the value we want. Now go to the Polisy Nodes listing: (NOTE: the temp dropped to 42.8 between the screenshot above and this one: This is also a bad example, because the Windchill is currently the same value i.e. = 42.8. I'm going to make an educated guess that in this case that we want the driver name ST and not GV1. (In this case since I used temp in the method 1 example I'm looking for temp here too, the GV's tend to be optional or additional values so it's most likely GV1 is windchill and ST is current temp.) Now from the variable replacements page of the Wiki: so we will use ${sys.node.n007_temperature.ST} to put the temp in an email.