Joe Dunn Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 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 Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 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 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Posted April 16, 2011 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 Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 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 Posted April 17, 2011 Author Posted April 17, 2011 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 Posted April 17, 2011 Posted April 17, 2011 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 Posted April 17, 2011 Author Posted April 17, 2011 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 Posted April 17, 2011 Posted April 17, 2011 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 Posted April 17, 2011 Posted April 17, 2011 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 Posted April 19, 2011 Author Posted April 19, 2011 Brian, Sounds like a good approach! Thanks, Joe
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