Re: Weird Insteon behavior - just got weirder!

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All were fresh virgins (alas the only ones I'LL ever play with). The
problem lasted about 3 days and disappeared. Nothing changed before
during or since that time.


> On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:28:06 GMT, "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message  <WOSrg.26172$uy3.18939@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:25:47 GMT, "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote in message  <vfmrg.21599$Z67.302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> I have an Insteon switch that when pressed turns on it's own load
>>> and one other switch that it is crosslinked to. Been working fine
>>> for the month or two it's been installed.  We went away for 3 weeks
>>> and upon our return we now find that after the switch is turned on
>>> and the crosslinked switch turns on as it should, two other
>>> switches also turn on about 3 seconds later!.  It's as if they
>>> linked themselves while we were gone. No one was here to play with
>>> them.
>
>> OK, those following this thread know that after being away for 3
>> weeks, we came home to find that a switch in the kitchen would turn
>> on itself and one other switch as programmed but had "added" the
>> function of also turning on two other switches that it was NOT
>> programmed to do (they are all in the same 4 gang box).  It would do
>> this 100% of the time - not an intermittant behavior.  Weirder Part:
>> Now it works correctly again. Approx. 48 hours later it started
>> working correctly again - 100% of the time.  No loads were added or
>> subtracted.  My one great hope for this system is that replacing the
>> 2414X Translator with the upcoming RoZetta will solve these problems.
>
> One scenario that would take the experience out of the realm of
> 'weird' and back to that of simply 'buggy' would be if you had indeed
> inadvertently cross-linked the switches but the linkage was/is
> working only intermittently because something that you do when you
> occupy the house attenuates/blocks the/a repeated signal. As you
> know, one of the imperfect aspects of INSTEON is the difficulty of
> successfully un-linking (convincing a device to forget). Were these
> devices virgin, unused, fresh out of the box, or had you installed
> them elsewhere or in a different mode/configuration before?
>
> What is a "2414X Translator" ? Were you able to determine whether the
> behaviour occurred with the repeaters and computer interface removed
> from the system?
>
> ... Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.ECOntrol.org