Greetings.
I have ~50 Insteon devices in my home and have had good performance since installation last May. I have two PowerLinc controllers (PLCs), one on a PC running PH and one on an Elk. The Elk has been merrily turning lights on and off for months.
As of a few days ago, the reliability of the Elk originated Insteon commands diminished. Most of the lights still work, but some are not 100% reliable as before, and a few (e.g. the flourescent lights in my garage and game room) won't respond to the Elk at all. On the other hand, everything works fine with commands from PH via the PC/PLC. Likewise, various Switchlinks with links seem to control everything as expected.
I have an old X10 signal strength meter and see strong spikes when commands are sent from the PC/PLC but only a faint blink of the first indicator (i.e. very weak signal) with the Elk/PLC. I do not see evidence of substantial background noise.
The Elk and the PC/PLC are on opposite ends of the house. I have tried everything I can think of including:
-Swap the PLCs between the ELK and PC. Both work from the PC but not the ELK.
-Unplug any applicances I am suspicious might be generating interference.
-Turned off all of the breakers one by one with no improvement
-Re-initialized my SignaLincs
-Moved the SignaLincs to various other places
-Rebooted the ELK (LEDs for the serial expanders blinking as ususal)
Around the time I started to realize I had a problem I had some electricians here working on an outdoor lighting circuit which had developed a short in a circuit controlling some outdoor lights. The circuit in question had an Icon dimmer on it and in the course of working on it the electricians managed to blow out that switch. The switch has been replaced with an identical Icon dimmer which works fine and responds to commands from the Elk and PC.
Also around the time I started noticing problems I changed the re-routed the power to my cable modem and wireless router. I hae unplugged all of the powerstips involved witout improvement.
Any suggestions of what I might try next?
TIA
Mike
I have ~50 Insteon devices in my home and have had good performance since installation last May. I have two PowerLinc controllers (PLCs), one on a PC running PH and one on an Elk. The Elk has been merrily turning lights on and off for months.
As of a few days ago, the reliability of the Elk originated Insteon commands diminished. Most of the lights still work, but some are not 100% reliable as before, and a few (e.g. the flourescent lights in my garage and game room) won't respond to the Elk at all. On the other hand, everything works fine with commands from PH via the PC/PLC. Likewise, various Switchlinks with links seem to control everything as expected.
I have an old X10 signal strength meter and see strong spikes when commands are sent from the PC/PLC but only a faint blink of the first indicator (i.e. very weak signal) with the Elk/PLC. I do not see evidence of substantial background noise.
The Elk and the PC/PLC are on opposite ends of the house. I have tried everything I can think of including:
-Swap the PLCs between the ELK and PC. Both work from the PC but not the ELK.
-Unplug any applicances I am suspicious might be generating interference.
-Turned off all of the breakers one by one with no improvement
-Re-initialized my SignaLincs
-Moved the SignaLincs to various other places
-Rebooted the ELK (LEDs for the serial expanders blinking as ususal)
Around the time I started to realize I had a problem I had some electricians here working on an outdoor lighting circuit which had developed a short in a circuit controlling some outdoor lights. The circuit in question had an Icon dimmer on it and in the course of working on it the electricians managed to blow out that switch. The switch has been replaced with an identical Icon dimmer which works fine and responds to commands from the Elk and PC.
Also around the time I started noticing problems I changed the re-routed the power to my cable modem and wireless router. I hae unplugged all of the powerstips involved witout improvement.
Any suggestions of what I might try next?
TIA
Mike