Great news! I can see the X10 commands, and more importantly use them coming in.
Some background...even after a lot of my devices were not X10 "friendly", I could use Isy as a translator. Ex. If I wanted to turn on an attic fan, I could use an X10 remote to send, say an F1 command, Isy would see it on the power line thanks to an X10 transceiver, and a program would see " Receive X10 F1 ON" and turn on the Z wave controlled fan.
This was more useful in the pre-Alexa days, but useful none the less - out of voice range from an Alexa device, or at a time and place where speaking would not be desired (Ex. Middle of the night in bed). insteon made some pretty cool desktop keypad devices, backlit even which were perfect.
So my inability to receive and process X10 signals emanating outside eisy itself kind of eliminated that.... Nope.
I read about a guy who majorly solved his X10 issues when he filtered his battery powered backup power supply. I did some current online search and found out what a noisy device they were on the powerline! This surprised me...stay with me..
I recently completed a 6kw backup power supply for my house, complete with necessary transfer switching. I had read how the harmonics from a generator might not be healthy for sensitive electronics. So I bought 3 relatively inexpensive UPS devices as they reportedly effectively manage the harmonics issues. (In exchange for creating other issues!)
I have 2 installed. I just happened to have a couple of plug in powerline filters, so, I decided to check and give 'er a try. BINGO! I now am seeing ALL X10 signals on the event viewer and my X10 performance is majority improved.
My brother in law lives next door in our rural area and walks his dogs at night. If I can get my VGL receiver up and running I plan to give him a key fob X10 transmitter to turn area lighting on and off as needed!
My 2nd success story today!
Well...color me surprised. I (again) rebooted my eisy and this time all the missing tags were there.
Problem solved. I think there may be an order of reboot question, but whatever, it works!
