What century is this? Updates are archaic

On 2/20/2026 at 9:39 PM, nowandthen said:

I was notified up an update. I update. The console closes and I open it. But surprise! "The Admin console is not compatible with the installed version of the IoX Firmware".

Not all of us live and breath Eisy. We just use it. Now I'm out searching these forums on how to update the console.

Please help those of us that are not power users. Updates should not be painful in 2026.

How the heck do I update the console? The program says not compatible, then I click OK and it closes. So now I can't open the console. UGH!

I thought I saw a message many months ago that this was going to be simplified.

I feel your pain. I've been a ISY user for maybe 20+ years (ISY994i and now EISY). I've been having a few odd bugs with my EISY lately. No idea why they suddenly started happening. Removing the devices and re-linking them over and over didn't help. The error messages from admin console were bizarre and all but useless. I thought I had a couple of failed devices. So I started browsing the forum. I saw a notice from MIchel about a new version 6.0.5 released. No information on how to download and install it. So, as I do about once a year, I spent time searching through the wiki and the forum. A simple software update in any other software I've used in 40 years doesn't take hours to figure out -- it's usually a click or two -- 5 or 10 minutes max. Not here. Tried rebooting my EISY and all of a sudden it was updated to 6.0.5. I didn't even know it would do that. Then the admin console no longer worked. More time spent finding the link to download start.jnlp again.

Why isn't there a prominent link at the top of the "Official News and Announcements" page to a page that gives all the information about how to download and install updates? Why has it always been this hard?

I'll get off my soapbox for now. Thanks.