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

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

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

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

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

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

Michel,

 

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

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

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).

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.

Brian,

 

Sounds like a good approach!

 

Thanks,

 

Joe