I have 36 recent-model Insteon hub-controlled devices which work perfectly when individually activated. Yet those same devices are occasionally “missed” when scenes of which they are a part are activated. (They don’t turn on or off as they should.) It’s an entirely random occurrence with different devices in different scenes at different times of day and with different appliances or other devices on or off. No repeatable pattern I can discover.
The only suspect I can come up with is some sort of data collision when the hub sends out control signals and devices respond. Could this be a time-dependent thing? Might there be some sort of way to increase time spacing between transmitted commands and responses?
Doesn’t the hub keep repeating individual commands until a device responds ... at least a few times?
I’ve tried duplicate commands within scenes as well as juggling the order of commands within them, all to no avail because these command failures and the ”missed” devices are entirely random.
I love the Insteon system, and these occasional failures are infrequent. But it is frustrating to come down in the morning to discover that a light I thought I turned off had been on all night.
Ideas?
The only suspect I can come up with is some sort of data collision when the hub sends out control signals and devices respond. Could this be a time-dependent thing? Might there be some sort of way to increase time spacing between transmitted commands and responses?
Doesn’t the hub keep repeating individual commands until a device responds ... at least a few times?
I’ve tried duplicate commands within scenes as well as juggling the order of commands within them, all to no avail because these command failures and the ”missed” devices are entirely random.
I love the Insteon system, and these occasional failures are infrequent. But it is frustrating to come down in the morning to discover that a light I thought I turned off had been on all night.
Ideas?
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