Re: Weird Insteon behavior

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Warranty isn't an issue as these are all less than 4 months old. What IS
a concern is that these things would create a fixed and repeatable
change such as they have. The WAF went way down on this because it's the
kitchen lighting that's acting up. I'll try doing factory resets on
these and see if reprogramming helps.


> 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.
>>  At least for me, Insteon is turning out to be just as buggy as X10.
>> I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet but I may be selling a load of
>> Insteon stuff for half price pretty soon.
>
> The delay implies that you have an error involving
> retransmission/repetition.. The multiple transmitter/repeater nature
> of INSTEON will make these sorts of errors difficult to isolate and
> cure. Assuming that unplugging the couplers doesn't end it, the
> problem would seem to require replacement of the switches which is
> expensive for everyone.  Did you buy the extended warranties? (I'm
> not implying that the unrecompensed time and hassle of removing and
> reinstalling is an acceptable fix for you.)
>
> We had our first observed and verified command failure two days ago
> that was much simpler and more benign than Bruce's problem. We have a
> conventional arrangement of two pairs of switches at the top and
> bottom of the stairs to control the top and bottom lights in the
> front hall. One switch in each pair is a slave. When I pressed both
> switches more-or-less simultaneously to turn both lights on, the two
> local indicator lights  indicated that they were on, but only one
> light actually turned on. A second press did turn it on, but the
> failure dropped the field reliability based on estimated daily use to
> somewhere in the 97-98% range which is poor by our standards.
>
> ... Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.ECOntrol.org