I have bought an Insteon kit including the 2413S serial PLM for my Cortexa controller. The house has extensively been using X10 although 30% of the switches are already Insteon/X10 since I had to replace them after years. Finally I pulled the trigger and bought the PLM and access points to slowly convert my X10 to Insteon.
I plugged in the PLM in the basement, connect the other end to Cortexa. As long as I have the address entered in Cortexa, I can control the light through the interface. I got the 2 access points installed based on the instruction as far as waiting for the green blinking light, not red/green. One access point was installed on the main floor, the other one on the 2nd floor.
This is where the fun begins, I tried programming one Insteon keypad, but no matter what I do, I can't make it to program or the plug in module will never link. I plug the module to another outlet, sometimes it links and other times, the 2 just keep blinking. Does it mean I have a signal issue?
Would it help if I have more access points? If that plug in module was dual-band with wireless, would it work better? Would wireless transmit down to the powerline or only wireless from one device to another wireless device only?
After linking the handheld remote to a few appliance modules, the speed is improved from X10 for sure.
As for un-linking, what's the procedure, do prepare the un-link first from the plug in module, before setting up the controller in un-link mode? Now from the remote, after I press a button, sometimes it blinks rapidly for about 5 seconds or so.
I just can't stand too many combination to make this Insteon work, getting confused.
The house is about 4000sq ft including the basement. I'm not sure what else I can do to imporve realibility. I do have an X10 filter/coupler installed at the breaker, not sure if that's causing more problem on the Insteon network?
Much appreciate your help.
I plugged in the PLM in the basement, connect the other end to Cortexa. As long as I have the address entered in Cortexa, I can control the light through the interface. I got the 2 access points installed based on the instruction as far as waiting for the green blinking light, not red/green. One access point was installed on the main floor, the other one on the 2nd floor.
This is where the fun begins, I tried programming one Insteon keypad, but no matter what I do, I can't make it to program or the plug in module will never link. I plug the module to another outlet, sometimes it links and other times, the 2 just keep blinking. Does it mean I have a signal issue?
Would it help if I have more access points? If that plug in module was dual-band with wireless, would it work better? Would wireless transmit down to the powerline or only wireless from one device to another wireless device only?
After linking the handheld remote to a few appliance modules, the speed is improved from X10 for sure.
As for un-linking, what's the procedure, do prepare the un-link first from the plug in module, before setting up the controller in un-link mode? Now from the remote, after I press a button, sometimes it blinks rapidly for about 5 seconds or so.
I just can't stand too many combination to make this Insteon work, getting confused.
The house is about 4000sq ft including the basement. I'm not sure what else I can do to imporve realibility. I do have an X10 filter/coupler installed at the breaker, not sure if that's causing more problem on the Insteon network?
Much appreciate your help.