How to replace a EZIO8SA PLM?

[Bill Morrow]

My motion voice announcements recently stopped working and I've traced it back to my EZIO8SA PLM. My ISY won't talk to it and when I did a factory reset it didn't blink or buzz. Nada.

I remember having to plug my laptop into the original PLM to get the EZIO8SA up and running with the ISY. But it's been so long since I did this, that I don't remember what software I ran or what I did. I tried to download the manual, but my Malware software is complaining about a Trojan on the Smartenit site. I also posted my original issues here, but the post seems to have scrolled into the ether?

 

I'm hoping I can just plug the replacement PLM in, but as I recall, it's not that simple?

 

Thanks

[Bill Morrow]

I forgot that I had an old 2413S that I had done the capacitor fix on. So I hooked it up and added the new device to my ISY, but it says that it could not identify the Insteon device type? The 2413S seems to react normally to a reset.

Any bright ideas?

[Bill Morrow]

OK, so I got the new device to link, but I couldn't find a way to replace the existing PLM address. So it wiped out the controls in all of my motion programs. 

 

I have a backup of the ISY before I replaced the EZIO PLM, so if there is a way to substitute the new PLM that would be great.

[Brian H]

This is the PLM on the EZIO8SA not the ISY994I's PLM?

Is the old EZIO8SA still in the in the ISY994i also?

Try clicking on the old EZIO8SA and see if Replace With shows the new one you just added as the replacment. Let us know as I am not too sure if Replace With function will properly do an EZIO8SA.

[Bill Morrow]

55 minutes ago, Brian H said:

This is the PLM on the EZIO8SA not the ISY994I's PLM?

Is the old EZIO8SA still in the in the ISY994i also?

Try clicking on the old EZIO8SA and see if Replace With shows the new one you just added as the replacment. Let us know as I am not too sure if Replace With function will properly do an EZIO8SA.

Thanks Brian,

 

I did not see it when I was playing with the context menu, but I did not spend a lot of time before I killed the dead EZIO PLM. I just looked up the codes I wanted from the PGM files in the ISY backup. There are not that many motion programs to update. Although I don't think I have sound yet.  I am seeing most of the EZIO inputs in the Event Viewer, so I guess something else is broken. 

[Bill Morrow]

Yay, I'm hearing voices again.

I thought I could hear the announcements if I wandered around near the front door with the front door open, but apparently not. I also restarted the interface, so who knows. I sent the boss out to do a walk about and they are working again. I think the one motion sensor might have wiring issues, since we had the trim capped with aluminum.   But I'm installing all new IP cameras, so what's one more cable. ?

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[Brian H]

You may have noticed the LED on the EZIO8SA's PLM flashing a few time at power up. It is changing the Category and Subcategory of the PLM to 07.04. The  EZIO8SA. With the six digit Insteon ID of the PLM connected to it. So if you changed the PLM. It will  now be an EZIO8SA with a new Insteon ID. So modules using its old ID will probably not work correctly.

[Bill Morrow]

Yeah, I'm not sure this worked the first time I powered up the EZIO  PLM. I could not link the device until I plugged it in the second time. I also had to select [07  04] from the device type drop-down to get it to link of course.

 

Thanks