Thermostat activity volume

[hart2hart]

According to instruction manual v2.2R thermostat adapters are supposed to stablize to a value for 2 miutes before an update occurs. If I went back to manual method and queried every 30 to 60 minutes my insteon traffic would be much reduced since I have 3 adapters. Located how to do this in adapter user manual listed below. In final step (4) how would I modify for ISY?

 

Does this cause adapter to stop broadcasting reports or does it still send but is ignored since not linked?

 

In genral ... do you recommend doing this? what are others doing? may be able to show some values update more frequently than 2 minutes -- contact Smarthome?

 

Disabling Change Reports

1) Set the thermostat to Off mode

2) Press & hold the Set button Thermostat Adapter for 3 seconds

The Thermostat Adapter Status LED will begin blinking

The thermostat display will flash all the LCD characters once

3) Press & hold the Set button on Thermostat Adapter for 3 seconds again

The Thermostat Adapter Status LED will continue blinking

The thermostat display will flash all the LCD characters once

4) Press & hold the Responder’s Set button for 3 seconds

The Thermostat Adapter Status LED will stop blinking

The thermostat display will flash all the LCD characters once

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello hart2hart,

 

If you don't mind me saying, I think INSTEON traffic from the thermostats (as long as it's normal) should be negligible. We have installations with more than 30 thermostats and the traffic has never been a problem.

 

May I ask what problem you are trying to solve?

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[hart2hart]

Hi Michel:

 

Given the retries and tiemouts with DSCLink from post below, this was one of several avenues I saw that flet may be contributing. In one month there were 90,000 entries in log and 60,000 were thermostat update related.

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello hart2hart,

 

I really do not think these are the cause UNLESS you have programs that do things based on these values that require network activity such as:

1. Network resources

2. Emails/Notifications

3. Portal integrations (remote access)

 

And, all the above is really not a problem UNLESS there's network connectivity issues such as DNS issues. The problem I see from your error log is that ISY is trying to "connect" to something on the network which is NOT responding. The timeout on your Network resources is the amount of time ISY waits to connect.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi again, please see the post above first (if you have not already done so).

 

What you might want to try is disable all those programs that are thermostat dependent and see if there are any improvements.

 

Secondly, to figure out the slow response times, if this is repeatable, the first thing you might want to do is to disable the programs that are based on DSCLinc variables and see if there are any performance improvements.

 

The fact that ISY cannot connect to DSCLinc tells me that there are some network connectivity issues. Is it possible that your PC is going to sleep mode? Does this happen immediately? Can you copy/paste your router's logs for the same period?

 

 

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[hart2hart]

Thanks for feedback. There are not programs that trigger based on thermostat updates/values so for now I'll consider this not part of DSCLink Issue.