IoX screen status not matching device status

[flsenior]

The Eisy IoX screen which shows all devices on my network has some devices where the status on the IoX screen does not match the actual status of the device as shown on the individual device. 

What is the cause of the mismatch?

[CoolToys]

@flsenior, there are lots of things that can cause a mismatch. I am also assuming you are talking about Insteon?  

The two biggest are:
1. Simple comm issues.
2. Sending a scene from IoX, the IoX AC "assumes" the status is what was sent, it does not verify.  

I do a few things to combat this since my house has some known comm issues and I am way too lazy to troubleshoot it past the cyber power UPS that killed the entire side of the house.

- Every program that triggers a scene has a query at the end to verify the device did in fact turn on or off.
- I do a daily ISY query at 3:15 am, the ISY had that as a default, the Eisy did not when I upgraded.
- Where I can in scene or device triggers I went to two or three retries.

I still find a switch or light not set correctly after a scene fires from IoX, but the light side is 99% correct, just some switches indicate the light is on when it isn't meaning the scene is turned off, the lights go off but a remote keypad switch stays illuminated indicating "on" and the Admin Console (AC) indicates "Off" for the switch so I know it is scene send related.

Also if you are having scene issues and other programming problems since upgrading, check your variables and position in the programs.  With the ISY it was slow enough some of my errors never showed up.  As soon as I upgraded the house went nuts because one program saw the $sVariable as "1" so it started turning lights back on before the other program finished and changed the $sVariable to "0".  Moving a variable change to the top fixed several issues.  Much of my stupidity and laziness is documented in the Long Running Randomness Thread.