Re: More Weird Insteon stuff

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Marc_F_Hult wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:17:21 GMT, "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message  <BgEAg.14179$%a1.9008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Came home this evening and couldn't turn on the bedroom lights. The
>> Keypadlinc that controls them was dead as a doornail - not even the
>> backlight worked.  Pulled the airgap for 10 seconds and it came back
>> on - factory reset with no links to other devices.  Spent 20 minutes
>> reprogramming the damn thing to link with two other KPL's and 4
>> switches.  Earlier, I had gone to the kitchen and found that the
>> switch that had magically linked itself to others and then went back
>> to normal, had linked itself to 4 other switches in the same box.
>> Turn it on and watch the others come on - but not all at once!
>> My wife's question was, "So tell me again why this stuff is better
>> than the X10 stuff?"  I was left speechless.
>>
>
> Bruce,
>
> Please correct me if I remember the details incorrectly, or if they
> have changed since I was last paying attention, but doesn't your
> setup also have X-10 installed at least insofar as it depends on a
> beta (?) version of an X-10-> INSTEON converter that was withdrawn or
> never actually sold?
>
> That could be very germane to the experiences you have.
>
> ...Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.ECOntrol

Yes, I have the 2414X translator. A couple of other switches have
unlinked themselves from it too. This latest round of oddities only
occurred after I installed the beta Houselinc Software, which BTW, is
now shipping in production form.