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!

Edited May 15, 20178 yr by jasont

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

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.