5 hours ago, raymondjiii said:

I'm trying to understand this remote Wifi device. If it's in your house and you have no Internet "network" then how is this device connecting to? I don't care if the device connects back to "its cloud" somewhere (like Feit brand cameras do and you access the cameras at the cloud address) - if it's like that - how does "the cloud" signal make it back into your house where there is no network at all. If it's not running on a cell network I fail to see how this device is going to connect back to its app. Or rather, how "the app" is going to connect it "it". The Feit camera might be connected to "the cloud" and you access it via it's cloud IP address - but the network stream is still going from your house network to said cloud. No home network - nothing is phoning home back to the clould

With ISY/polisy/eISY and Insteon, no WiFi, cloud, router or modem is required.

ISY does some sensing of the router or LAN or Internet being down and power cycles the router/modem by the Insteon network.

1 hour ago, dbwarner5 said:

I imagine a z-wave plug (which I have) would work as well for the modem as no internet is needed for that either? I have kasa plugs that I could use for the EISY... thanks!

I looked at your Home Automation Roadmap. If you ever get your Yamaha receiver integrated that would be awesome. I tried that device that has the IR emitters - not sure if that was Smarthome or Insteon or what. But I could not get that working with my old ISY. I have successfully used the ChannelPlus units that plug into an electrical box and send the IR signals all over (to the receivers in the house). That was nice when I had cable TV. But I do wish I could get this "other device" (can't remember the name) - to work to change volume, radio station (yes I still listen to FM, about a year ago setup a nice HD FM antenna) and a Sony XDR-FM1 - I mean that device stands by itself. How the hell that thing can pull in signals from "way out" and separate the signal from the noise. I have 3 other units that I want to try to do the mods on. The guy who used to do them "xdrguy" is semi-retired now but I'm on his "wait" list. There's a lot of messing around on that little tuner board and the solder joints like to come off the board which makes it real fun. There's a good chance I'll mess something up on at least one of these units but learn by doing.

If I had this issue I don't think I would do a scheduled reboot. What if my router hung up and the reboot wasn't for another couple days?

I would use some node servers that rely on a cloud connection. Something that regularly changes. For example, use a weather app. If the temp and humidity stay exactly the same for like an hour, reboot the router using Insteon. Maybe just to be sure it isn't the weather app that went down, use two different apps both of which have values that get updated every few minutes. If neither changes for an hour, reboot. The only caveat here is if PG3x is somehow down. But I would add to the mix an email notification telling you it has rebooted. At this point you can manually check it out. Obviously, if it is pg3x that is down, you will still be able to access your ISY remotely and ISY will still be able to send you an email remotely. Perhaps two notifications, one that sends before the reboot and one after. If you get the first one, you know it was an unnecessary reboot and to figure out what is up with PG3x.