Remove My Lighting - i.e., "All On" - From Elk using ISY???

Madcodger

Active Member
I just got my Insteon system migrated over to the ISY, and hooked it to my Elk. Everything was going well, although I noticed that lighting "slot" A1 was taken up by "My Lighting" when I exported the ISY file to the Elk. The Elk has a W800 receiver hooked to it, which receives X10 wireless signals from several motion sensors around the house. Well, one of my motion sensors in a hall must be going bad, and transmitting X10 code A1 when activated, as they so often do. At 5:00 a.m. today, this resulted in every light in the house coming on! REALLY tanked the WAF! I figured it out fairly quickly and disconnected the Elk from the ISY, but...

Can someone tell me how to get rid of "My Lighting" in the A1 slot when exporting from an ISY, or even move it to another lighting device in the Elk? This seems like a problem Universal Devices will want to fix if devices always export like this, as so many people have X10 wireless sensors, and the things are known to revert to A1 when they go bad or even start to lose battery power.
 
I thought I had this resolved by editing the XML file that loads into the Lighting section of the Elk, and also clearing information out of position A1 on the Elk. However, I find that the Elk STILL passes the A1 signal it receives from the W800 over to the ISY, which then turns on all the lights in the system (77 of them!).

I wouldn't mind losing the ability to turn all lights on / off, which is all the "My Lighting" function really does in the ISY. This seems like a major flaw for anyone with a W800 or similar X10 wireless receiver hooked to an Elk if they're using an ISY or anything else that forces one to use position A1 for a particular purpose.

Can anyone think of a way to either block the A1 signal, prevent the Elk from handing it over to the ISY, or altering the ISY itself?

(Note: Similar note posted in the Marketplace / Elk Products forum, but I wanted to reach a broader audience by using this broader forum as well).
 
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