Ghost links

[SirParadox]

Ever since I first deployed insteon my first two ever switches have had odd ghosts in the machine.  One is a simple on/off for the back porch.  Next to it is a multi button dimmer.  The main is the family room light.  A is one corner lamp Linq, b is another, C is to a micro on/off in the basement for Cide yard, and D is another micro on/off for a deck light.

 

for some reason the independant on/off also tiggers C on the other.  Sometimes D.  I have replaced both a few times but the problem returns.  This past week I did a debug, show isy links.  In there is a set of repeating hex, where the next 3 hex on one line is the same ID as the side yard, and the other the deck, and the third an unknown item.  Those links do not belong.  The on/off switch is part of no scenes or programs.  They also appear nowhere in the controller/responder list in the isy app.

 

is there any way to directly edit these links?  I can delete and re-add the switch, but won’t the link come back from the other direction?  I also checked my kitchen switch which ‘turns off all buttons when the on/off is toggled’ which is a very ancient, deleted program, that I coded that on double off click turn off all buttons but that program is long gone.  I’d really hate to delete and reconfigure that from scratch.  But I can if I have to.

 

im just wondering how can I have these renegade links, but not visible in the admin console, and nowhere to say download, edit, load, etc the config?

 

thx on advance.

[paulbates]

Do the links in iox / admin console look right? Post a pic if you're not sure.

I'd factory reset the on/off switch, and right click on it in iox and pick "Restore Device". If that works repeat with the keypad

[apostolakisl]

I feel your pain.  I have seen similar ghost links.  The only way to get rid of them as far as I can tell is to completely delete all involved devices from ISY, factory reset them, and bring them back into the fold from scratch. 

I found that shooting screen shots of all the scenes and whatnot from the admin console of ISY makes recreating the scenes again much easier.  Same holds for any programs.

This is an issue I had many years ago and seemed to have been a result of devices that died and needed to be replaced as well as moving devices around.  I have not had issues like this in over a decade.