SteveL

Doing some consulting. Teaching at Orange Coast College also.

For those interested I am going to be doing an online class with the Polisy / ISY and the Camect Hub. Jimbo wrote a node for the Polisy that lets you use camera analytic input to trigger things in the ISY. I will be using this to demonstrate the integration process of the components and show some of the things that can be accomplished. Example: If Camect sees a Bear outside turn a Philips Hue Bulb Red or if a camera sees a person in a room turn the light on. You can register Here Steve.

KHouse, V 2.1 is the current shipping version.

There are some issues with the link above. Here is another link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=nE6FN4W3eSo

I spoke with Chris this morning and gave him a few things to try. One of them was to remove each bulb and then introduce a bulb one at a time to see if any one bulb is causing the issue for the entire load. Since the loads were working on the keypad for the previous six months my feeling is one of the bulbs is causing the misfiring of the others.

Here is a link to a video on the Amazon Echo / ISY 994i Integration. This is just a first pass at an instructional video for the setup. UDI will work on future updates to this integration in the coming year. As always please contact our support department at support@universal-devices.com if you have any questions. https://youtu.be/_3rx861eT_M

Techman, The ISY will show the Enery Display when you try to add it but it is not supported. You can however add the iMeter Solo and monitor the current draw. One note: the iMeter Solo does not handle inrush very well. I had one on an evaporative cooler and at high speed when you turn the load on it will blow out the IMeter Solo. My evaporative cooler has a 1/2 horse motor.

rayzor, It sounds like the I/O Linc might be right on the edge of consistent communication. You can try to open the Event Viewer in the Admin Console and set it to Level 3. Now query the I/O Linc and see how many hops away it is. If it says 0 hops remaining then all it takes is a little noise and the I/O Linc may not get the signal back to the PLM. Since the I/O Linc is a signal band device you are limited to the powerline only. Sometimes plugging a Range Extender into the pass through outlet of the I/O Linc can help with signal propagation.

jkraus, Before I would change the keypad I would do a factory reset on it, delete it from the ISY and add it back in. Then put the "A' button back into the scene and try it. You can also open the event viewer and set it to level 3. Tools > Diagnostics > Event Viewer When you push the "A" button you should see traffic in the viewer. If you do and the scene still doesn't work then please be kind enough to send a support request to support@universal-devices.com and we can login to your computer and take a look.

rossarmstrong, Please feel free to contact our support department if you have any other issue that you may need support for. support@universal-devices.com We also have webinars that we do twice a month that you may find helpful. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/13444-isy-994i-series-webinar-schedule/

This link. http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.2.23/admin.jnlp

Glad to be of help.

This post was meant to provide some basic steps to uncover noise on the powerline. If anyone wants to contact me directly you can do so at steve@universal-devices.com I would be happy to talk to any of you on the phone about the nuances of the INSTEON engine.

Bert2013, Eventhough allot of INSTEON devices are dual band there is only one base engine in the product. The RF still has to work with the powerline and the powerline with the RF. If you have noise on the powerline the RF is not going to save you in all cases. The best part of the dual band is having an RF receiving point for devices like the thermostat and remotelinc 2. It also is great for bridging the phases. If you took the powerline out of the product you would see how challenged most installations would become. Noise on the powerline does just that.

Our support department gets a fair amount of calls with question on INSTEON signal troubleshooting. The problems that the customers are experiencing are related to noise on the powerline and not an issue with the ISY. I wanted to provide a few points that you may find helpful in troubleshooting communication issues to your INSTEON devices from the ISY. We tend to look to noise at the culprit when things start to become intermittent with device communication. Example: Today 3 or my 5 devices turned on in a scene but yesterday everything worked fine. Tools to look for noise. 1) Place an INSTEON keypad in link mode and watch the flashing cadence. It should flash on and off about every second. When noise is present the flash cadence will be all over the place. It might flicker instead of flash and it might stay off to 5 or 10 seconds at a time then flash fast. (to put a keypad in link mode you just press and hold the set button in for 5 seconds) 2) Some INSTEON devices actually have a function called flash on traffic. This will cause the LED on the device to flash when it see powerline traffic and in some cases it can show noise also. 3) Query a device in the ISY and it should query very fast. If it takes 20 seconds (it should take a second or two) then you may have noise of phase bridging issues. What to do to identify Noise. 1) I find the easiest way to get to the bottom of the cause is to look for the idenitifier like the flashing on the keypad then go to the breaker panel and turn off the first breaker. Look to see if the flashing goes back to normal. If not then turn that breaker on and turn off the next. Keep doing it until the keypad flashes at a normal cadence. Note: Try not to switch the breaker that controls the keypad you are watching. If you go through all of the breakers and you have found the cause then it may be the circuit the keypad is on. In this case you unplug any device plugged into that circuit and see if one of the plug in loads is the cause. Once you find it you can simply buy a plug in filter and filter that device. In closing, there doesn’t have to be a device that you just added that causes the problem. It could be a device you have had for years and one day it starts to throw noise on the powerline. I had a customer that had a Sonic Care tooth brush and then the brush was in the charger it destroyed communication to 120 switches in his house. This is just one example and there are other stories like this with simple plugin loads that start to produce noise on their own. Please visit our Webinar page if you are interested in any of our training classes. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/13444-isy-994i-series-webinar-schedule/ If you continue to have issues please contact our support department at support@universal-devices.com.