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The sales page was not to informative. I believe if you dug deeper. The code expired on 10/11/2019 and ran from earlier in the week. The sale was not well advertised.

Starting at V2.4 they also used a new Serial Port Daughter Board. With an improved serial port interface chip with better ESD properties and protection on the Serial I/O lines to the outside world.

Saw that. Almost looks like they are dumping the PLM and UDI products. Maybe some new models are in the works. Like a PLM that does not fail in a few months after the warranty is over.

Power supply portion of the switch. Can cause all kinds of issues. Most likely a dried out filter capacitor. I have rebuilt a few of their plug in modules. Had one 2456S Insteon ApplianceLinc start pulsing On and Off at a one second cycle. Filter capacitor fix it.

Over on the X10 forums. There are a few threads on the WM100. Some from the early users that where given them to do tests on.  No one is happy with them. Serious issues and the Chinese manufacturer and App writer are not being cooperative at all.   Had one more thought. Have you checked the...

Yes the Red LED should blink with receiving or sending an X10 power line command. For both the X10 TW523 or X10Pro PSC05. If you have any other X10 controller to send an X10 command. The TW523's LED should blink when it  sends a command. Even if you have the RJ11 cable disconnected from the...

I don't think Insteon is at risk. I do think the new owners [Richmond Capital Partners] are going through sales and seeing what was not a good seller or had a high failure rate. I know somethings like color change kits and light pipes also on their way out. Steve Lee was in a pod cast this...

Just remembered. Jeff also has a great set of X10 information and troubleshooting tutorials on his site.   http://jvde.us/x10_troubleshooting.htm

My archived ToggleLinc manual. Says push in the Set button until the LED starts flashing. Then using an X10 controller send the wanted address on the power lines. Example for B5. Hold the set button until the LED flashes. Then using an X10 controller. Send the B5 address on to the power lines...

Dave Houston has some added information on X10 on his web site. You may find added information there. https://www.laser.com/dhouston/

Authnix bought the X10 brand. When X10 Wireless Technologies suddenly went bankrupt. In 2011. There probably are no new specification in the works. The ones you found are probably from X10 WTI or maybe even back further to BSR days. The X10 patents ran out many years ago. So ACT and Smarthome...

Not sure if would be of use to your requirements. Where I worked. We used DIN Rail mounting clips. Has a hole in the center and you could screw a transformer to the clips and then snap it onto a DIN Rail.

You may also want to look for an ESR and temperature ratings. Some capacitors in switching supplies have a low ESR and 105C ratings.   Like the Smarthome 2413 series PLMs. Has a switching power supply. They used questionable brand capacitors. They got a reputation of failing two years and a few...

If they are in parallel. All of them may have to have a magnet near them. Remove any magnet and the loop activates. If you did not have all of them satisfied. Try again and just move one magnet. To see how the loop acts.

The rebuild was for the 2413 PLMs. The 2414 PLC is completely different power supplies.   I doubt any 2414 PLC would do I2CS. The 2414 Developer guide we got when the Developers Group was still active. Has no information in it on the I2CS protocol. That was released years later.   There is an...