apostolakisl Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I just bought 2 appliance lincs during the 20% sale to run some more Christmas lights. I plugged them in and added them to ISY and am using them just fine. .. sort of. Adding these 2 devices seems to be directly correlated with a drop in my overall system function. I used to have one or 2 random failures to comm a month, now I am getting one or 2 a day. These are random devices around the house that fail to execute their commands. I don't get it. What the Heck!!!. Adding more devices is theoretically supposed to make things better. But these 2 devices seem to have lowered reliability without making any other changes at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian H Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Mostly curious. What firmware version in the ApplianceLincs does ISSY report? I have a new 20% off ApplianceLinc coming myself and can test to see if my system slows down. That could be in a few days depending on how jambed up FedEx gets this holiday season. I know I have some older 4.1 hardware AppliancLincs that make my system show errors. Hope the latest firmware didn't break something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 It may not be the AppliancLincs...it may be the christmas lights...they may be signal suckers and/or noise generators. Maybe just plug in the ApplianceLincs with no load and see if your performance returns to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apostolakisl Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 The version firmware on the new ones lists as v.42 I got them on the 20% off sale at the beginning of the month and they came in like 3 days. It's not the loads themselves. The loads were already there, just plugged in manually. Plus, most of them are incandescent except for the tree which is LED. But these are the same lights I have had for 3 years. And they were already being used since Thanksgiving without issue until the new devices came last week. Then at 11pm the night I installed them, when all was supposed to shut down, one device didn't shut down. Then the next morning one or two didn't turn on. And what I mean by "device" is any random thing around the house, not necessarily the new appliance links. Stuff like this has happened every day since adding the new devices whereas prior to the new devices missed commands were maybe one per month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELA Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Hello apostolakisl, I have two V.42 appliancelincs that are without issue. ( just for a version reference) I wonder if you can remove the new additions just to confirm they are the cause and that it is not a coincidence that something else has failed? You could then run reliability tests to a number of devices to quantify how good communications is without the new devices. Then add the new devices back again and do the same reliability testing. It is in no way a given that adding more devices will always enhance the reliability ( especially if SB devices) . There are so many variables. If the communications in an area is already marginal ( yet outwardly appearing fine) adding more devices in just the right spot can cause a reliability dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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