I have a couple of motion sensors (2842-222). I've noticed some discussion in the forum that suggests that the ability to program these over the network exists with my ISY-994i but elsewhere I thought I saw something that indicated otherwise. I don't see any settings for them in the ISY Admin Console. I used to program them over the network when I was using HouseLinc. Can I with ISY?

 

Also if I change anything in my ISY regarding them I appear to have to get the ladder, climb up and take them down, open them up and push the set button. Then put them back up and try to re-align everything. Is there any other way?

Hello salex319

 

Motion Sensors must be awake for ISY to be able to program them. ISY does not "wait" to hear the motion sensor is active and then start programming them. In short, human intervention is required every time you need to program a motion sensor.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

Hi Michel

 

So I think you're saying that the answer to both questions is "no."

 

Since I suspected that was the case with the ISY I had attempted to solve it by dancing around in front of the motion sensor when I'm attempting to program it. If my timing was right or if I enlisted the aid of someone else to try and keep it active when I want to program it is there a chance that might work?

Hi salex319,

 

Yes, and apologies for not being clear: the answer to both is no.

 

You can try activating the sesnor by dancing around and you might be lucky enough to get the motion sensor NOT to go back to sleep while programming. The reason we resisted not implementing auto update was because in most cases the Motion Sensor would go back to sleep unless you had continuous dancing around. And, even then, there were cases that the motion sensor got confused. On the other hand, when you put motion sensor into programming mode properly, you will have 4 minutes of awake time so you won't have to keep dancing around. And, the results are very predictable.

 

With kind regards,

Michel