Does the setting of jumper 5 in the Insteon Motion Sensor have any effect when using the ISY?

If you want any software/firmware to be able to set any of the characteristics that are under program control, such as time delay to Off, Jumper 5 must be set. Jumper 5 is not necessary establishing links and getting motion, dusk/dawn, battery messages. If Jumper 5 is not set than the small pots are used to adjust those characteristics.

On the old revision 1 models. Jumper 5 did nothing and was marked not used in the instructions.

Thank you for your answers, and please excuse my confusion. When in the admin console, if I select the motion sensor, click "Set Options", it asks me to press the SET button, which is of course INSIDE the sensor.

 

I was under the impression that the advantage of setting Jumper 5 was that the settings were controlled by software, and you wouldn't need to open the sensor, where there were setting wheels anyway.

 

Am I missing something? (probably)

The motion sensor sleeps when not in use which means the RF circuitry is off and cannot receive any commands. This has nothing to do with Jumper 5. If Jumper 5 kept the motion sensor from sleeping the battery life would be much reduced. Without Jumper 5 (as Brian mentioned applies only to V2 motion sensors) the small pots are used to control the settable values. With Jumper 5 in place software/firmware controls those values. Either way you must put the motion sensor into Linking mode with the Set button before software/firmware can initiate communication with the motion sensor. This applies to creating links and setting those program settable values.