MrBill

the switch with the red wire connected is where you want to look.

I agree, it's either wired wrong or the switch is bad. Fix the problem that it won't manually turn on before proceeding with the ISY.

Have you tried factory resetting both devices? Even new they may have garbage in memory. Does the light turn on manually from whichever of the two has the red wire connected to it?

I'd pick option 2. Keep in mind that if you want to take your Insteon when you sell, or if the new owner isn't interested in Home Automation, that you can always leave behind Insteon only (without a controller) in select locations. Just link it all so it works correctly and no controller or other automation is required.

I'm glad you asked them. I've been wondering since you asked the question. My Polisy's are located in a place where I never see them unless I specifically go there to add/change or unpower/repower something. After you asked I looked at the same wiki page expecting the answer to be there, but it really isn't. Other than power tho, I'm not sure I would be confident reading the meaning... if I needed to know because a specific problem was attracting my eye towards them I'd probably email support anyway.

I wondered that too. The answer is so simple... they even have the correct thread.

tagging @Goose66

My thought was that the program is taking to long to finish running, which for some reason Alexa knows. If that's the case, Alexa would see completion of Program A, the only program she knows anything about, meanwhile program B continues toward completion.

@larryllix What happens if Alexa runs program A that does nothing but Run Program B, and Program B is your program above?

Be aware that z-wave signal strength is minimal. If your ISY has a z-wave board and the device is close by it might work, you may also need to add some other devices to build a mesh. If you have an iolinc laying around already that's your path of least resistance at this point.

Lamplinc's don't work like this. In fact, Insteon doesn't work like this, nothing communicates constantly, communication only occurs when control events occur. There is no communication that occurs when a lamplinc (or other insteon device) is plugged or unplugged (loses or gains power). That said, it's possible to write an ISY program that causes the ISY to 'query' the device. If it's not responding, then it doesn't have power. However you should not load your system up with the communication events or you'll be introducing errors and collisions across all devices. Something like every 5 minutes is probably the most often you would want to generate the constant queries. It's a discontinued product but what you really are looking for is SynchoLinc 2423. Don't know if any used or new are available online thru ebay or the like. If you have a Polisy and could run the Kasa nodeserver the KP115 might work, the problem is that it's not yet in the devices known to work with the nodeserver/ISY yet. If your system has any z-wave there are also zwave devices that will sense and report load.

I don't know if you've had luck finding anyone, but if your open to remote assistance just with the programming and what's going on with your ISY you might have more takers. Windows 10 Quick Assist is one method, but can be slow.. if you have the ISY portal that's even better for the person assisting, but you can't watch every keystroke they make. It might not be too difficult to get your system working much better, some programs don't convert well from 4 to 5 once those are fixed and you're upgraded to the latest release 5.3.3 you will probably be in much better shape.

I'm going to argue with that... Our TV remote is bluetooth and work 40-50 feet away. (one Cable box feeds 3 TV, the remote works fine on the 3rd 40-50feet away and thru a wall. Sony claims the range is 30 feet. Wikipedia states 10 meters or 33ft.

@mljenkins Is the green light on the side on? There is a PLM repair thread around here you might want to find. Actually I mention @Brian H in this post as he probably knows the best link to send you to for how to. It's discussed many times and you might read forever trying to find the best information.

See this post:

I have the pro version too (and a 2nd non-pro i bought for experimentation). I don't really feel gypped, but I also was an early decider that bought it pre-production. I've also been around long enough to know that development at UDI is slow but steady, so I'm not particularly surprised we aren't there yet.

Most of the answers to your questions are covered in threads in this sub-forum. At this point in the game UDI should rename this, or if renaming isn't possible at least open a new sub-forum in the same bread crumb (this is Home > Polisy > Geek Batch). Wifi (other than joining a network) and Bluetooth control haven't yet been developed. To move from PGC to local, there is no automatic path. Close the Admin Console, stop and delete the cloud instance of the NS, reinstall it as local. In general, it's not all bad to leave the instances that talk to another cloud service on PCG. Examples include the Weather nodeservers, and MyQ... and really most of them. NodeServers that talk directly on your local hardware on the local network are the Nodeservers that must be installed locally. This is why you see 2 different stores lists... In some cases the nodeserver can't be cloud based, sometimes both can exist, and other times cloud is only suitable. The Rachio NS also draws a special mention from me. It only talks to Rachio's cloud API and has local versions and a cloud version. The local version requires and open port tho, therefor I run it on PCG so that I don't need to open a local port. Why 3 network connectors? why not? in reality we don't know, today only one is used. In the future they might be used for direct connection of a network appliance, which would allow direct traffic that doesn't travel via the local network. I don't believe the motherboard is UDI's original design, it's a board they mass purchased and built a box around, exposing connections they thought would be most useful in the future.

Its an oddly named forum, "Geek Batch". It really should be renamed.

If anyone else installed V1.1.0 besides me you'll want to sudo pkg update sudo pkg upgrade isy sudo service udx restart sudo service isy restart before you try to add portal.... V1.2.0 fixes that... ? UDI was super fast when I reported the issue.... We really did new a place to discuss the alpha versions of ISY on Polisy besides this thread....

@Michel Kohanim That's awesome!!! So far only added to my second Polisy. Two topics with questions: 1) The java admin console is the tool to access? Obviously I got there via that method, but I'm asking the question because I thought this version was going to be browser based rather than java? or perhaps that's a future step? 2) you mentioned that ISY-994 backups can't be restored on Polisy ISY, is there or will there be an approach for moving or importing anything? Devices of any type (Z-wave or Insteon) and/or programs? Is there a Z-wave dongle for Polisy? Is there a method to move an Insteon setup over? or will it require starting with an empty PLM, and building from scratch? Nothing about this is critical or meant to put you in a defensive mode, I'm simply asking questions that many will have about two topics in the path forward so that we can approach this in an informed manner. Congratulations!! This is an awesome milestone to have reached! It's awesome to have a faster, more powerful device at our disposal!!

I had forgotten about the DB9, but for some reason I thought it was the dedicated console port, but apparently the console port isn't exposed on the back-panel, it's on-board only. So the DB9 must be where Insteon goes. Thankfully I never throw away cables that come with a device.

I've been wondering what the hardware configuration is for Insteon ISY on Polisy. There are USB serial ports, but I don't believe there is a port compatible with 2413s. Since it's apparently in testing maybe @Michel Kohanim can give us a hint about things to come. I have two hypothesis, but I'm not sharing them because they are both nothing more than my wild *** guesses.

Except he's counting with the variable... its appears he's limited it to 0, 1, 2 but I'm not sure yet how that was accomplished.

Larry, Let us see the program that the 10 motions are using (or one of them if it's 10 similar programs). My concern is that if you are using your Integer variable as part of the IF statement (to prevent it growing larger than 2) that we have effected that program with the change to state variable. In general, State Variables and Integer variables are very similar. However State variables can be used as a Trigger in an If statement, Integer variables can only be used as a Filter in an If statement. State variables can also be a filter, but there can be adverse side effects if there is an Else statement. (that's a lot of complicated thoughts reduced to 2 sentences!)

Re-reading your first post again, Option C is definitely what you want, change to using a State Variable, and use the two program method. Then with your program that sends the notification you'll want to use If $stemp_test <= 2 then send notification.