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What is the non-production store? Beta software? What Yolink devices are supported?

In your situation I would probably use a Yolink LoRa outlet and just control it with Home Assistant until somebody releases a Yolink Node Server. (Hopefully somebody is working on that)

Might not look as nice but the outdoor Insteon On/Off modules have some advantages over outlets. Besides being waterproof the large plastic box seems to promote better RF reception which sometimes makes them reliable where other Insteon devices are marginal.

Interesting that all of the links show bulbs with the filiment style LEDs. My Philips E12 bulbs have a translucent cylinder inside that contains the LED. They dim fine.

They already said we won't see new PLMs this year. I doubt if they have anything more specific to say on that yet.

I would sign up but I can't think of anything new to ask them.

I keep an X-10 plug-in controller around for this kind of testing. Cheap and takes the ISY out of the equation so you can easily do pure signal testing isolated from any PLM issues.

Also not using thermostats with Elk.

OK, down from 399 nodes to 176. Much more manageable, thanks!

So if I delete them from Elk to keep them from coming back do I also need to delete them from the Nodes tab to actually get rid of them? Or do I uninstall and reinstall the Node server after they are cleared out of the Elk?

Actually these entries look like they were imported from the ISY994. Don't know when or why I would have done that... maybe to use Insteon lights in Elk rules? Still I don't need them in the Node Server so need to delete them one way or another.

I don't know why this topic submitted twice or why it is asking me which answer was most helpful when it is a new topic that nobody has relied to. Gremlins?

I just installed a trial of the Elk PG3 Node server and ended up with 399 Nodes. Investigating in ElkRP I see that I had 239 lighting devices defined from the old X10 days that I forgot were there. Instead of deleting them one by one on the Nodes tab of the Node Server I was thinking of unchecking "show" for each light in Elk RP and then uninstalling and re-installing the Node Server. Will this work to prevent them from being added? Can I install a second time under the free trial since I did not consume the 30 days?

So here is another way of looking at it. The other day I was watching a YouTube video of somebody who did an elaborate Halloween light show in their yard that included dozens of drones with coloer changinging LEDs forming giant figures in the sky. The control of all of these drones requires precise communication to move each one where they need to be for each scene as well as have all the lights on them work in perfect unison for color and on/off timing. I would like to know what RF protocol is used to accomplish this and why I can't have switches that use that protocol instead of ones that can't even turn on a group of four lights without popcorn effect delays?

Unfortunately that is the situation we find ourselves in. Hopefully something will change for the better but you can't make a safe investment in the future based on anything we know today. And yes my house is pretty dumb... except for my Stargate which still keeps rocking along.

Question has been asked to death with no clear answer. I would suggest the following guidelines: Do not switch to something based on future promises that may be delivered much later than forecast, if ever, or might deliver basic function with a promise of future features that never happen. (Matter, Zigbee 3.0, Z-Wave LR, etc.) Do not switch to anything that does not, or does not "yet", have an open API for local control: (Lutron RA3, Yolink LoRa, Control4, etc.) Do not switch to anything that has a cloud dependency (Most Wi-Fi,) Do not switch to anything that assigns IP addresses to IoT endpoints (Unless you are running a Layer 3 core switch in your house) Do not switch to anything that has known problems that have persisted a long time with no resolution such as the Z-Wave popcorn effect (If it hasn't been fixed in all these years it likely never will) And most important do not switch to anything that does not have drop in equivalents for your existing Insteon devices such as hybrid keypad/switches, wire-in fixture modeules, etc.

OK but I am also struggling to get Homeseer to talk to IoP and I think it defaults to 80 with no option to adjust it on that side. EDIT: You were right about 8080 getting rid of the red banner. Thanks! Now I just need to get Homeseer connected and figure out how to kill these ghost nodes in P3

Did you get this working? Did you have to change the port on the configuration page of the homeseer plugin?

Could not solve it so I did a factory reset and started over: In P2 I still get the red password warning that will not go away even if I reset the password. In P2 the log is going crazy from constant failed attempts to connect to ISY. In P2 I no longer have any Node Servers. In P3 I have Node Servers but they show as unmanaged and cannot be deleted. IoP works fine for Insteon but of course no Node Server functions

One final question: I changed my P2 settings to point to the IP address for IoP instead of the ISY994 But I keep getting an error that I need to set the password. I have set it several times but it does not accept it. Do I need to change a port setting on this page for P2 pointing to IoP?

OK got it. Thanks.

I'm going to back out of this migration because it killed my P2 Nodes (Now show as unmanged in P2 and no longer function in the ISY994 Admin console.) Hopefully if I put the old SSD card back in my Polisy I can get back to where I was.

I do not have a Z-Wave board (probably why I never upgraded). The migration instructions say: Migrating from 994 to Polisy Preorder ZMatter: Z-Wave Plus and Matter Module Note Z-Wave nodes are not automatically migrated: Make sure the ISY994 is already upgraded to 5.3.4, the Polisy OS should be at level 13 or greater, if you are moving the SERIAL PLM from the ISY994 to the Polisy, locate the RS-232 cable that came with the SERIAL PLM, for USB PLM’s make sure the cable is long enough. Just in case - Note the IP address of the ISY994 and the Polisy. If you are upgrading a z-wave network, ensure a zooz S2 stick 700 is available for the Polisy. So are you saying that this only applies if I am using Z-Wave and otherwise I can migrate straight from 5.0.16C? (Cuz that's not the way the instructions read)

Where exactly is the 5.3.4 update for the 994? I need to get from 5.0.16C to 5.3.4 before I can migrate to IoP but every link I can find to 994 firmware gives me a 404 error. What happened to the days when you could do updates right from the header of the ISY admin console?

I don't think they are less reliable but they have an Internet authentication dependency so not completely local. Unless I am misunderstanding the model.