Re: More Weird Insteon stuff

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

Someone in Florida (lots of thunderstorms) has posted about a similar
problem (although his KPL locks up but remembers its programming after the
reset) to SmartHome's Insteon forum.

IMO, this is one that they should have long ago. It's obviously a
programming issue and has carried through various models (both pre and post
Insteon) for 5-6 years. It even sounds a bit like Dan Lanciani's complaint
about the original Switchlincs.

With utility deregulation, power quality issues (e.g. outages, sags, surges)
have increased dramatically as utilities have reduced their spending on
maintenance. We're likely to see more rather than fewer problems with our
electronic doodads.

"BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.
>