Hello All,

ISY994i ZW+, Love this thing, it is awesome; with bits of time here n there, have done more with it in the last 2 weeks, than since the beginning of the year counting countless hours every week with some Troller type piece ?  _Golly_ and I haven't even played with the ISY Portal  ....yet

Have read something I'm not sure I understand though.... According to the manual,  the "ISY interfaces securely to both wireless and wire line local area networks..." So when I configure this unit with a reservation on my router, add mac filtering, etc, etc, reboot everything and having disconnected the LAN cable, the ISY994i just flashes the no network red & blue LEDs.  I thought I looked over the well laid-out and simplified gui, but couldn't find any reference to any WLAN settings (ena/dis, etc.).

Is there something I'm missing or am I misunderstanding the wording from the manual that appears to suggest a WLAN interface exists on the ISY994i ...?  Surely hope to tuck this fantastic little device out of site with only a UPS'd 12v circuit in a crawlspace w/o a cat5 running to it.  If i misunderstood the manual, then I guess I'll run a PoE line for it.

Thanks

Hope everyone is stayin healthy n hApPy!

Not sure what you read where but the ISY needs a LAN Ethernet connection and a separate power supply. No POE or wireless.

 

Edit: I see now what you see in the manual. Seems like a bit of advertising and introduction. Yes it interfaces with the internet and can control curtains etc but is not directly connected to those things.

it does say that on page 6 of a manual i don't ever recall seeing before.

Edit to add: PDF page 6 not page numbered page 6.

(found with google site search)

Edited April 18, 20205 yr by MrBill

1 hour ago, MrBill said:

it does say that on page 6 of a manual i don't ever recall seeing before.

 

(found with google site search)

Manual? I thought ISY was supposed to make things automatic?

Page 6? Mine only shows how to set up the isy launcher??

UPDATE: Found it on the 6th page of the PDF document, not page 6 of the manual.

Edited April 18, 20205 yr by larryllix

OK Dorothy so there is not a WLAN interface on the device then, correct.  Oh I surely aint complaining, but wanted to know for reasons of sanity vs trial n error behind the wheel.

@TrojanHorse -Perhaps easier for me to locate near a PoE jack vs getting both a cat5 jack & power in the same spot.  I know the ISY994 is not PoE capable, but it's nothing to piggy back something to make it so with the wide DC input.  All of my cameras are that way; I learned (ooops, almost used learnt) in school infrastructure to run 3+ cats, you'll need em someday so run extra while you're running one.

I thought the page 6 reference (or whatever page of the Manuel/auto book) was for something Insteon or X10, so like alot of the manual I took w/salt grain to ease my understanding; this was especially true while programming my 1st couple gizmos, absorbing more from the Insteon pages although having none.

Again, surely no complaints what-so-ever having been where I've been (sparse or simply no documentation; weird naming of products; weird forum structure; saturation marketing), not that there's anything wrong with New Hampshire.

On 4/17/2020 at 8:37 PM, Inchwork said:

?Surely hope to tuck this fantastic little device out of site with only a UPS'd 12v circuit in a crawlspace w/o a cat5 running to it. 

 

 

 

You might not want to make it too inconvenient,  You may need to reset it once in a while, and you can only do that manually in some instances.

Edited May 8, 20205 yr by JLOB
fat fingers!

48pt switch is much easier to get to, now that this is 'centrally installed' to 'unplug'.

Prolly mute, as it _seems_ ok after several 'hard shutdowns, but never found any confirmation to properly/nice shutdown for this.