Power Failure/Surge kills ISY (not really)

[Zellarman]

After a power failure my ISY is all but dead. It's inaccessible through either internal/external webbrowsers & telnet. It doesn't execute any of it's timed programs, though conditional programs seem to run, and IR functions work intermittently.

 

I've disconnected the ISY from the modem, and upon reconnection the LED on the modem flashes for about a minute, the power LED on my ISY comes on, and the RX & TX LED's flash for about the same minute as the Modem, but nothing changes, still the same deadness (if that's even a word)

 

So....what do I do now?

 

UPDATE So now, a little over 24 hrs. after the power failure, my ISY is responding over the internet. I figured what the hek, and took antother try. Happily to my surprise the GUI came up on my computer at work. Hopefully everything is as it should be, and I'll check the best I can when I get home. What could've happened that made it return to operation?

 

What can I do to protect my ISY going forward? I presently don't have any kind of surge protection on the Modem, but what would that do anyway, it's only low voltage going over a network patch cable? I had read somewhere that the low voltage transformer (which I unfortunately do not have) could be used to power the ISY 99. While I imagine use of the transformer could possibly provide a cleaner and more stable low voltage power supply to my ISY, would it automatically cause a disconnect of power coming from the modem, or is there some sort of setting in the shell, or elsewhere that would let us disconnect the ISY power from the modem?

 

UPDATE #2 I'm hme now, and after checking on things, the only way I can connect to my ISY is through the internet. No local network access or telnet. I feel completely lost. I'm not much of a techie, but thought I was doing OK until now.

 

UPDATE #3 Rand saves the day, well for me at least. While I'm not fully sure why I didn't have internet access earlier in the day (maybe dynDNS just hadn't been updated yet?) it turns out everything seems back to normal now. What I didn't know was that my internal network address could also change in addition to the internet address.

[Sub-Routine]

Does the My ISY-99i work?

 

Your router probably gave it a new address when it came back on line.

 

Rand

[Zellarman]

Wow, is there a special area for dummies in this forum? It must be where I belong. Thanks alot Rand. I thought one only had to worry about not having a static address for internet access, so is there a way to resolve this on my network, like I did for the internet w/ dynDNS?

[Sub-Routine]

Wow, is there a special area for dummies in this forum? It must be where I belong. Thanks alot Rand. I thought one only had to worry about not having a static address for internet access, so is there a way to resolve this on my network, like I did for the internet w/ dynDNS?

 

This is the area for dummies

View the WIKI and please provide feedback.

 

I read it here on the forums. My router (D-Link DI-624) always assigns the same addresses to the same devices after a reboot. I thought every router would but I guess not. You have to look for the ISY again at My Network Places if the address changes.

 

Rand