When ISY reboots, I have several programs which "run at startup" and look for "Current State" of Insteon wireless devices which are blank, not populated, because a state change has not yet occurred.  As a result, I get, in error, alert notifications from these programs which incorporate "Current State' field.

 

Is there a solution or do I need to wait until the change of state occurs and populates "Current State" field?

If this item is a hardwired device you could perform a query to obtain the current state.

Edited May 18, 20169 yr by Teken

Teken- Thank you for your reply. Yes, I noticed a query will update a hardwired device. Are you confirming that the only solution for wireless is to wait for a change of state to occur?

What are you checking, If Control or If Status of battery device?

 

Normally you can adjust the Program to accept a blank state, or perhaps trigger the Program with If Control so some message must be received from device before Program runs.

Teken- Thank you for your reply. Yes, I noticed a query will update a hardwired device. Are you confirming that the only solution for wireless is to wait for a change of state to occur?

 

Yes, for a battery operated device you would need that hardware to change state. Now, since various battery operated devices have different options they could be used to update the status in a round about way. Keeping in mind some of them are obviously not very practical but do offer possible uses.

 

1. Low Battery: This wouldn't be used at all in this situation because it could take months for this node to ever appear.

 

2. Dusk / Dawn: This has a window of opportunity but it depends upon environmentals and installation position.

 

3. Heart Beat: This feature is only available on the Open-Close, Hidden Door, Leak Sensor and only happens every 24 hours. The Hidden Door Sensor can be adjusted to check in sooner along with voltage levels. 

 

4. Status / Control: Of course this would require the device to be activated either open/closed, walking past the FOV of the MS, or a leak detection etc.

I understand-Thank You