Siren just a piece of plastic?

[MeDoISY]

Does anyone know if/when the Insteon Siren Model:2868-222 will be detected and usable by the ISY994i?

The Hub seems to accept it, but you can only arm/disarm it with the Hub.

I hate using the Hub when I have a perfectly useful ISY.

[Techman]

5 minutes ago, MeDoISY said:

Does anyone know if/when the Insteon Siren Model:2868-222 will be detected and usable by the ISY994i?

The Hub seems to accept it, but you can only arm/disarm it with the Hub.

I hate using the Hub when I have a perfectly useful ISY.

It should work in the latest firmware release 5.0.16A

Which ISY firmware version are you using

[Brian H]

I have installed a few in 5.0.16A myself.

It was not in the last official 4.7.3.

[MeDoISY]

5 hours ago, Brian H said:

I have installed a few in 5.0.16A myself.

It was not in the last official 4.7.3.

I'm using 4.7.3, guess I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade to 5.0.16A.

I understand a lot can go wrong with this upgrade.

I can always go back and wait for the official if I have trouble!

[lilyoyo1]

1 hour ago, MeDoISY said:

I'm using 4.7.3, guess I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade to 5.0.16A.

I understand a lot can go wrong with this upgrade.

I can always go back and wait for the official if I have trouble!

You'll still have to do the same things with the official version so you might as well get it out of the way

[DennisC]

19 hours ago, MeDoISY said:

I'm using 4.7.3, guess I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade to 5.0.16A.

I understand a lot can go wrong with this upgrade.

I can always go back and wait for the official if I have trouble!

If you take the few precautions that have been well documented, the upgrade goes well.

[markv58]

My upgrade was smooth as silk!

[MeDoISY]

43 minutes ago, markv58 said:

My upgrade was smooth as silk!

I did a backup and got this zip file:  ISY-Backup.v4.7.3__Tue 2019.12.17 05.31.39 PM.zip

When I unzip it, just to be nosy, I find another zip file:  uuid.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.fb.zip,  I inserted the x's

This zip file can't be unzip'd because it's invalid, although it's 94k in length.

Is that to be expected? I really don't look forward to starting over with more than 100 devices and 75 programs.

 

 

[lilyoyo1]

3 hours ago, MeDoISY said:

I did a backup and got this zip file:  ISY-Backup.v4.7.3__Tue 2019.12.17 05.31.39 PM.zip

When I unzip it, just to be nosy, I find another zip file:  uuid.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.fb.zip,  I inserted the x's

This zip file can't be unzip'd because it's invalid, although it's 94k in length.

Is that to be expected? I really don't look forward to starting over with more than 100 devices and 75 programs.

 

 

Yes it's expected. The isy unzips the file to read. Your computer can't do it

[MeDoISY]

Well, I bit the bullet and a lot of stuff doesn't work.

Was I suppose to restore the 4.7.3 backup?

On the Program Summary page I get a bunch of lines that say -Not Loaded- and Out of Memory.

How do I get that fixed?

[Bumbershoot]

19 minutes ago, MeDoISY said:

On the Program Summary page I get a bunch of lines that say -Not Loaded- and Out of Memory.

How do I get that fixed?

First of all, do your firmware and UI versions match?  If they do, then I think you can just resave those programs.  If they don't match, use the ISY Launcher to start the Admin Console.:

 

[MeDoISY]

Yea, my UI version was not updated. After fixing that, the program problem went away.

There are a few more problems, but I'll see what I can do to get things straitened out.

When I'm totally out of ideas and can't find solutions elsewhere, I'll start another topic.

Thanks for everyone's help.