No log.

[Joe Dunn]

I'm migrating my X10 system to mostly Insteon. I started with some lighting activities. Then I programmed my sprinklers in X!0. That worked fine. I just converted my sprinkler relays to Insteon. I can communicate with the new relays individually. My sprinkler program runs but, the sprinklers don't work. So, I looked at my log and it is empty. How can I turn it on?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[LeeG]

Joe Dunn

 

For this type of debugging I suggest using the Event Viewer. Invoke Tools | Diagnostics | Event Viewer and select Device communications events option from pulldown.

 

Device communications will be traced in the Event Viewer window and can be saved in a file if desired.

 

Lee

[Joe Dunn]

Lee,

 

I appreciate your help. On further investigation I discovered I had failed to save the program changes. Does that happen a lot?

 

I will check out the event viewer. I'm sure it will come in handy some time.

 

I would still like to know how to get the log running.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[LeeG]

Joe

 

On further investigation I discovered I had failed to save the program changes. Does that happen a lot?

I made that mistake often in the beginning.

 

I would still like to know how to get the log running.

What happens when using Tools | Log? Any prompt messages? What actually happens?

 

Lee

[Joe Dunn]

I go to Tools and select log. I select Excel format. Then there's a warning about macros. Time before last I declined macros and received nothing. This time I accepted macros and got over 44,000 log entries in an Excel spread sheet.

 

I would like to trim that down a lot. But I don't know how. Maybe the only option is to erase the whole log. Which is what I might do.

 

Joe

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi Joe,

 

1. If you want to start fresh, then use Tools | Erase Log

2. You can change the limit of your ISY logs, currently at 3 Mega Bytes, by

a. Telnet to your ISY and login ( http://www.universal-devices.com/mwiki/ ... o_Your_ISY )

b. Type CL and change the log limit

 

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[Joe Dunn]

Michel,

 

I didn't know that the log space was so large. Is it stored in the ISY or on my computer?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[LeeG]

It is on the ISY SD card. The log can be offloaded to a file on the computer through the Admin Console (and maybe Telnet, don't remember all the Telnet commands).

[Brian H]

Yes the Log and Error Log are both stored in the ISY99i and continue to be updated even if the computer is off.

I usually take both of them and store them as a file. Then periodically use the clear logs choices to start back fresh.

[Joe Dunn]

Brian,

 

Sounds like a good approach!

 

Thanks,

 

Joe