Changes take forever

[salex319]

I have an Open/Close sensor and several Motion sensors in my Insteon network. When I add a scene or make some other changes to my network the changes take a long time. I notice that at least part of the delay is that I'll see the "Writing" notation next to these battery powered devices which won't respond even though they are not involved in the network change that I am making. I included an image showing what I'm talking about. I had just added a new light switch and a plug-in on/off module. All I did was Rename the Plug-in Module and it took over 2 minutes with part of the time spent apparently trying to write to the Open/Close sensor as you can see in the image. Why would this be? Can I do anything about it?

[LFMc]

I can't tell you specifically the answers to the issues you are having, but it looks to me like you are having two different problems. The slowness is more than likely a insteon network communications issue. I suggest you search the forums for troubleshooting tips and examples that will speed up your linking. There are many good practices for having a healthy insteon network, but you need to see what may apply to your network.

 

The second issue may be as simple as your open/close IO module was some how previously connected to the devices you are changing, but now they are not. You may need to take the simple step, as recommended many times in other forums, of factory resetting the module and then adding it back in. 

 

Hope this helps. 

[rccoleman]

If you have pending changes for battery powered devices, they will only be applied if the device is awake at the very moment that the ISY tries to write, and that’s very rare unless you’ve designed it to work. If you have the Pro addon, you can toggle the rightmost icon at the top of the admin console to avoid automatically trying to write updates to battery devices. Otherwise, it’ll try, timeout, and fail to write to those devices whenever any changes to any device need to be written.

 

I don’t know what version you’re running, but there’s also an issue in 5.0.10 that can cause battery operated devices to act like they need an update even if they don’t. I hope that gets fixed at some point, but it makes it even more important to toggle off automatic writes to battery devices. You can always manually write changes by right-clicking on the battery device when you have it in linking mode.

[salex319]

I removed all the battery powered sensors and things improved - although Insteon stuff just seems inherently slow when your setting up new devices and programs. I'm working on cleaning up links before adding the sensors back in. I can't see that I need the pro version but it might be worth it just for that one feature.