Temp ISY restore?

[jasont]

In the process of troubleshooting an Insteon Motion Detector whose Dusk.Dawn started acting wonky (after a battery change), I started fiddling around with its Darkness Sensitivity.

 

For comparison, I'd like to know what the initial Darkness Sensitivity setting was, but I forgot to jot it down.

 

What's the best way to pull that info from a previous backup?  I tried unzipping a backup and looking through the files, but they appeared to be binary, and I don't know how to pull data from those.

 

This was my next plan:

 

1.  Backup ISY

2.  Restore ISY from an older backup

3.  Look for setting

4.  Restore ISY from backup taken in Step 1

 

Is there any other way for me to see the setting other than this method?

 

Anything warnings or gotchas from doing this?

 

Thanks!

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi jasont,

 

The best thing to do would be to remove it from ISY, do a factory reset on it, add it back and then check the value.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[larryllix]

In my ten MS units they are all set about 60-75 for darkness setting.

 

To get a faster response and avoid the 5 minute sensor adjustment delay you can tap the link button seven times quickly to force the MS to send it's latest dark/light detection to ISY, for calibration testing.

 

There is still about a 5 second delay to dark/light changes but not 5 minutes with this method.