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Hi Jim, Wish I would've seen your post back in 11/2020. I noticed the out of stock on a few items but thought nothing of it as being in IT i was seeing a ton of out of stock messages but your message probably would've got me to buy a few more spares I've got Insteon installed at two homes using ISYs and many Insteon devices. Started using Zwave for new devices but it'll take me years to do a total replacement. Have one PLM on the shelf so hopefully I'm good for awhile. It'll be sad if no one is able to pick up Insteon and at least continue to manufacture the more popular devices. When I moved from X10 to Insteon my home automation success increased tremendously. Hate to see Insteon go away.

Thanks everyone for your response. After seeing tmorse305 suggestion of pushing the value from ISY1 to ISY2 instead of pulling the value from ISY1 to ISY2, I then concentrated on that and although I had already tried that there most of been a and extra space or something in the path line as I copied and pasted the ISY URL again and low and behold the variable got pushed to ISY2. Thanks again. I appreciate the responses.

I guess I have to admit defeat. I tried several things and can't get this to work. I have two ISYs (5.3.0) at separate homes so they are not on the same network and I want to pass a variable from ISY1 to ISY2. They are both on the UDI Portal and have the Network Resource module. I have made several assumptions and obviously one or more of them is wrong . I have setup a set NR on ISY2 to Get the variable from ISY1. 2/50 is the state variable on ISY1 that I am getting and ${var.2.12} is the state variable on ISY2 that I want to put the value in. I tried using the actual variable name $sOutdoorTemp instead of ${var.2.12} but that didn't work. I can do a get from a browser so I know that basic functionality is working fine. Using the Authentication header and giving it my portal credentials which seems to work fine. Guessing I need to do https and use port 443. Tried checking both Encode URL and Use SNI but neither option appeared to help. Below is from the Resource Editor. Not sure if that is enough info to provide help. When I test the NR I get HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-powered-by: Express Vary: Origin content-length: 104 connection: Keep-Alive www-a GET /isy/ISY1_string_from_UDIPortal/rest/vars/set/2/50/${var.2.12} HTTP/1.1 Host: my.isy.io:443 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 Connection: Close Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Okay so after some testing it turns out it wasn't my ISY or my router but it was just a coincidence that both my Windows desktop and iMac both stopped responding to WOL packets at the same time. I tested by using a couple WOL utilities found at https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/1543-troubleshooting-wake-on-lan-wol-with-third-party-tools One utility is a WOL transmitter and the other one is a WOL monitor. I installed them on two different Windows machines on my network. For some reason when the utilities start they are set to port 4343. Since most WOL utilities use port 9 (including my ISY) I changed the utilities to use port 9. When i transmitted the WOL from one Windows PC the monitor installed on a different PC received the packet. I then used the WOL test function on the ISY and sent a WOL packet. The monitor client saw it so I knew the ISY and my network were fine. I then checked out the Windows client that WOL stopped working on. I noticed that when I did a shutdown the network card went completely dark. This hadn't happened before. I tried multiple power setting changes on the PC, checked all CMOS settings, checked network card driver settings, and even turned off hybrid mode but a shut down is now completely powering off the nic. I've been running Windows 10 for a long time so I'm not sure what changed. Must've been an OS update or a nic driver update. My fix. No more shutdowns, I just hibernate the machine as hibernation does not shut the nic off and still consumes minimum power. I'm guessing a similar issue with the iMac but haven't had time yet to research it. If you want to use a WOL utility from outside your network on the internet such as the one within Teamviewer then you may need to set a static arp route on your ubiquiti router and forward port 9 from your WAN interface to the new static arp address. Pick an ip from your dhcp pool that you are not using. The Arp entry should look something like this (set protocols static arp 1.1.1.1 hwaddr ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) 1.1.1.1 would be an unused address in your dhcp scope. Then forward port 9 to the same address you used instead of 1.1.1.1 in the arp entry. I believe WOL only uses UDP so you would only have to forward UDP on port 9 if you want.

Ah, thank you! If I figure it out, I’ll post here.

Hi All, After upgrading to 5.3.0, which went very well, my WOL programs no longer seem to work. Can anyone on 5.3.0 verify their WOL programs are working? I've changed multiple things this month so not sure yet if it is the ISY or something else on my network causing an issue. I have recently replaced my router with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 so that I could connect multiple ISPs but not sure if that would stop the broadcast packet. Anyway my next move is to grab a different WOL utility to see if that works on my network.

Thanks @Michel Kohanim. Does the DB9 jack mean I'll still need some form of a 2413S to communicate with Insteon devices? The 2413 has been the weak link in my configuration. Gives my ISY994 Pro a bad name every time it fails. Of course it picks the worst time to fail. With two residents and two ISYs I've had to start making sure I have at least one spare 2413 at each location. Pretty clean power at both places so not sure why these things fail every couple of years. Insteon 2413S Serial Modem Interface

Thanks to both of you. I'll take a look. I believe my exact model is ISY994iZ/IR PRO. I haven't opened it yet but my believe was I do not have a useable slot but that the Zigbee radio is soldered on.

I purchased my ISY994i Pro many years ago before I fully understood Zwave and Zigbee. I got my Pro with Zigbee which I do not use. It is my understanding that I can not remove Zigbee from my ISY and replace it with a Zwave radio. I love my ISY and probably have over 75 Insteon and X10 devices but I would now like to experiment with Zwave. So, looking for advice on how to move forward with integrating Zwave into my current environment. Do I purchase a SmartThings hub and integrate it into my ISY with IFTTT or do I buy another ISY with Zwave. If I get another ISY what does that look like? Can I use both ISY devices together or do I need to replace my current one? If I can use both at the same time do I need another PLM? Can one ISY see the variables/devices/etc from a different ISY? I'd like to mess with a new battery door sensor, the GE Z-Wave Plus Hinge Pin Smart Door Sensor and understand that Zwave is a mesh network so I should add a couple of powered Zwave devices. If I can use two ISY devices and hook this hinge up to my second ISY I'd like to be able to say that if the door sensor on ISY 2 is activated to trigger a lamp on ISY 1. Not sure if this is possible. Thanks for reading this really long post