Insteon Switch - Program Issue

[fmk2]

I'll try reinstalling the node server later.

This evening I had a new twist on the problems I've seen.  Turning on either the Kitchen or Living Room Insteon switches at the paddle resulted in the light immediately turning off again.  I checked the Programs Summary page, and discovered 3 different programs -- all of which were on demand only, and not set to run on a schedule -- that ran whenever we used either switch.  One of them didn't even have anything to do with those switches, but was forcing them to turn off anyway.  So I've deleted those programs for now, and I'll just recreate them later.

I also noticed in the Summary page that some programs have "Not Loaded" in the Activity column, and "Out of Memory" in the Status column.  I have a very small number of programs, and can't imagine that I've come anywhere close to using up all the memory in eisy.  How would I check that?  Can I SSH into the box and run a "du" command on some directories?  Or is there another way?

[Techman]

It's possible that you have a program(s) running in a loop that's using up your memory.Take a looik in your program tree to see if any programs have a solid green or solid red icon which would indicate they're running.

You can try disabling programs to eliminate the one that may be causing you issues.

[fmk2]

No programs running, and no issues since deleting the programs that were running on their own.

I tried disabling programs but still had some issues.  Deleting a couple of the problematic programs seems to have fixed the random turning on and off of lights.  I suspect they were somehow corrupted, and they were both simple programs so they can easily be recreated later.

I still see a lot of programs that aren't loaded because of the eisy being "out of memory".  Is there a way to check the actual memory usage of the eisy?  Maybe via SSH?

I still some old X10 programs on the eisy, but haven't used X10 in many years.  I'm going to delete them to see if the memory issues improve.

[Techman]

Under TOOLS, DIAGNOSTICS, SYSTEM STATUS you'll see available memory.

What does your system show?

[Andy P]

13 hours ago, fmk2 said:

I still see a lot of programs that aren't loaded because of the eisy being "out of memory".  Is there a way to check the actual memory usage of the eisy?  Maybe via SSH?

 

Every time I see the out of memory issue, it turns out that I deleted one of the devices that the program refers to. Instead of telling me it had an invalid device, it just says out of memory. Don't know if that is the problem here, though. So open the program and see if any device is undefined.

[Geddy]

19 hours ago, fmk2 said:

I still see a lot of programs that aren't loaded because of the eisy being "out of memory". 

Another issue might be mismatch of firmware and UI for admin console. Is the “out of memory” yellow? Make sure in Help -> About that Firmware and UI match.

Clear your Java cache (be sure to check all 3 boxes), download a new start.jnlp from the UD website (found by clicking on My ISY on the top right). Then running to get a fresh IoX Launcher icon. 

The eisy has tons of memory so unless you have near max amount of devices and tons of programs is unlikely to be a hardware memory related issue. 

[fmk2]

Thanks for all the help, folks.

I checked the memory as Techman suggested, and I have 48733 MB free.  So definitely no problem there.

As Geddy suggested, I checked and the eisy is on v5.9.1 for both the UI and firmware.

Andy P's suggestion that it might be related to missing hardware seems to be the solution.  I checked a couple of the programs that are showing "out of memory", and there is a missing device in those programs.  I replaced a Z-Wave switch some time ago, and apparently didn't update the affected programs when I did so.  So I'll go through those programs and update all of them.  That should resolve the "out of memory" errors.

I also noticed that "Matter Support" somehow got turned off.  So I've turned that on and restarted IoX.

As you can probably tell, I don't look at this system very often... it's reliable enough that I don't have to.  So when I do need to fix something, I don't always remember the best way to troubleshoot things.  Thanks to all of you for helping me straighten out these issues.

Edited Wednesday at 09:34 PM by fmk2
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