Insteon Wireless Thermostat Not Reporting Status

[smokegrub]

The subject thermostat is located remotely. It is used solely as a monitoring device of the temperature in the house. It is no longer reporting its status. I have tried updating it and restoring it. I have also cut the power to it, waited a few minutes and repowered it. Nothing has worked. Suggestions?

[smokegrub]

Ignore the above post. I got it back but it has been failing repeatedly so I will likely return with a request for help.

[Teken]

Smokegrub,

 

Could you offer a little more detail as to how you determined the the TSTAT was no longer reporting its status? Also, can you let us know what steps you took to remedy the current situation.

[smokegrub]

The current temperature was not displaying either in the ISY or in MobiLinc. I had determined previously that power outages (frequent at this location) cause the thermostat to lose its settings for the heat/cool mode and the temperature setting so, a year or so ago, I wrote a program: If thermostat is off then wait two minutes and reset the mode to heat and the temperature to 50. I set the temperature at 50 and use that to trigger a notification alerting me that the heat has failed. That way, I can contact someone to restart the heating system. I also have an alert sent to me each morning at 0700 providing the current temperature. 

My corrective steps were: I wrote updates to the thermostat and restored it from the ISY. 

The problem has repeated itself 3 times over the past week--the most recent was yesterday.

In my opinion, the Insteon thermostat is the least reliable piece of Insteon hardware I own.