I'm in somewhat of the same boat as the OP (of this thread? My 994i may not be dead but it is well into dementia. It has been going downhill for a couple of years but lately it's gone off a cliff: Weird stuff like double-tapping a switch for the basement lights now turns on/off all the nightime yard security lights, and pressing a remote to trigger the I/O Link to add a squirt of water to the birdbath turns on almost all of the shop bay lights. I've changed the power supply with no improvement but I fear that it is way too late to try the SD card since backups take over an hour and generate several error pop-ups so I have no faith in them.

So I bought a Polisy and plan to start from absolute zero: reentering the dozens of Insteon devices and recreating the programs that I actually need (in truth this purge is long overdue as the ISY is the result of almost 15 years of adding stuff in a haphazard way). Using some great guides here, e.g., dbwarner5's ISY-to-Polisy migration compilation, I think I have screen-shotted or downloaded every possible setting, program, and node so I am ready to go back to the Dark Ages for a few days as I rebuild.

My fear is that some of the old will somehow sneak into the shiny Polisy. Obviously the PLM will get a factory reset. Do I need to do resets on the devices, as well, particularly the switches that were set up as three (or four) way devices by creating scenes, and the EISO8SA's?

 

5 hours ago, paws said:

I'm in somewhat of the same boat as the OP: My 994i may not be dead but it is well into dementia. It has been going downhill for a couple of years but lately it's gone off a cliff: Weird stuff like double-tapping a switch for the basement lights now turns on/off all the nightime yard security lights, and pressing a remote to trigger the I/O Link to add a squirt of water to the birdbath turns on almost all of the shop bay lights. I've changed the power supply with no improvement but I fear that it is way too late to try the SD card since backups take over an hour and generate several error pop-ups so I have no faith in them.

So I bought a Polisy and plan to start from absolute zero: reentering the dozens of Insteon devices and recreating the programs that I actually need (in truth this purge is long overdue as the ISY is the result of almost 15 years of adding stuff in a haphazard way). Using some great guides here, e.g., dbwarner5's ISY-to-Polisy migration compilation, I think I have screen-shotted or downloaded every possible setting, program, and node so I am ready to go back to the Dark Ages for a few days as I rebuild.

My fear is that some of the old will somehow sneak into the shiny Polisy. Obviously the PLM will get a factory reset. Do I need to do resets on the devices, as well, particularly the switches that were set up as three (or four) way devices by creating scenes, and the EISO8SA's?

 

If you're starting from scratch, I would factory reset the devices as well. No point in rebuilding a  system just to bring in something that may have been previously corrupted over the years

9 hours ago, paws said:

My fear is that some of the old will somehow sneak into the shiny Polisy. Obviously the PLM will get a factory reset. Do I need to do resets on the devices, as well, particularly the switches that were set up as three (or four) way devices by creating scenes, and the EISO8SA's?

I would.

That's what I feared. Thanks for the quick replies!

It would be best to reset all the modules. If not it can lead to thing like missing or half links still in the modules.