GQuack Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) I upgraded to 5.0.16C a few weeks ago and while things are working pretty well, occasionally I experience what I can only call gremlins in the system and I have a bad case of them right now. For the most part, devices that are part of a controller / responder relationship are working correctly but I have a number of programs that are triggered by key presses on various keypads or mini-remotes and all of a sudden those are going wacky. The ISY doesn't even recognize that a key was pressed, doesn't execute the program based on that key press, the status of keypad buttons is reported as OFF when they are ON and vice versa. I've rebooted the ISY a couple of times, unplugged the PLM as well, and still the gremlins are hanging tough, what is going on? I can right click a keypad button and select query and see nothing going on in the event log, just like nothing happened. PLM going bad? It was replaced in January of this year so that seems way too early.. Thoughts anyone? Edited September 13, 2020 by GQuack
Michel Kohanim Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 @GQuack, https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=INSTEON_No_Status_Feedback_From_Devices With kind regards, Michel
GQuack Posted September 13, 2020 Author Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) Thank you Michel. I did check the links table last night and got a count of 44 just as I did now. Based on this article, that number is way low. Think I will try the restore process first and see what I get and then go from there. Edited September 13, 2020 by GQuack
dbwarner5 Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 @Michel Kohanim As you have heard before, wish UDI would develop their own PLM that had capacity corresponding to the isy and was reliable. This is the weakest link by a magnitude of 10 to using ISY / Polisy and all the great things UDI has done.
Michel Kohanim Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 @dbwarner5, I totally understand your sentiments and that was what we actually tried: we spent $$$ just to be shutdown by SmartHome (I am using one of the first ones we built at home). The long and painful history of having to deal with SmartHome/Labs has me completely jaded. So, I very much doubt this will ever happen. With kind regards, Michel 2
GQuack Posted September 13, 2020 Author Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) That process took me to 228 links which is a much better number. Let's see if my Gremlins are gone. Doug Warner, how the heck are you, been a while since we've touched base. Edited September 13, 2020 by GQuack 1
GQuack Posted September 13, 2020 Author Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) Michel, after that restore PLM process, I can see I am still missing at least one device which was the one I originally noticed problems. I'm sure the answer will be to delete the device and re-link it? Is there an easier option since I have a bunch of scenes associated with that device? Update: I've been messing around with button options, PLM communication retries, etc. to see if I can get the PLM to recognize more devices and seeing weird results. One time: at 228 links, then up to 494, then down to 371, then up to 931. Is that kind of dynamic change normal? Edited September 13, 2020 by GQuack
dbwarner5 Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 @GQuack Glenn! doing well.... always balancing the line between loving my HA and dealing with updates / systems / failures etc! I'll touch base offline from here.... By the way , if items are changing and programs running, the count will differ. I am not sure why, but I went through this a while ago because I had over 900 links and things were acting strange and that is one of the things I learned. So to get an accurate count, you should stop any programs and try to get the system to be static while doing the count.
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