Switchlinc powers up and down

[MrGibbage]

I have a switchlinc that behaves correctly when operating it locally, but when I try controlling it from another switchlinc, I get a strange behavior. The switch ramps up to the preset brightness and the preset rate, but then it immediately dims back to zero brightness. However, if I double-tap the remote switch, the local one ramps up to full brightness and stays at that brightness. I have tried delinking it and relinking it, but I still get this same behavior. What have I done wrong?

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[gregoryx]

If you don't have PowerHome or HouseLinc to clean up the link tables, you'll want to default the affected devices and re-link them.

 

[MrGibbage]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot tonight.

 

[SmartLabsMike]

Have you tried a factory reset on the device? Also, double check all connections. If you still have issues call our tech support to troubleshoot. If that fails - they will gladly swap the unit.

 

[MrGibbage]

Some movement on this issue over here:

http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=5986

 

[pkoslow]

Skip,

Seems similar to what I'm experiencing (see link to another thread in the previous post).

Do you have an Elk M1 in the mix?

Paul

 

[MrGibbage]

Yep. I just ran a test. With the 2414S PLC disconnected from the M1XSP, but still plugged into the wall, I cycled the light switch 50 times with 100% success. With the PLC connected to the M1XSP, I had 9 failures out of 20. The problem is somehow associated with the Elk.

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[MrGibbage]

Any movement on this? Anyone find a work around? I was also wondering how many of you are using powerhome? Any chance this is related to using PH?

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[mtwalsh367]

I use powerhome to populate my M1 Insteon addresses and to maintain my insteon configuration (links, etc). I generally don't leave powerhome running because I use the M1 to control my lighting and I don't want competing Insteon traffic on the line by having powerhome running at the same time. Note that I do use Insteon polling with the M1 so I am generating traffic every 15 seconds to poll the next device.

I have not experiences the problem described and have been using the M1 to control my Insteon lights since Insteon support was available through the M1. I have shifted to using Insteon groups for the majority of my lighting needs due to the delay issue with issuing multiple sequential Insteon commands through the M1. I do still control a few lights directly without groups but never more than one at a time.

I did experience something like you describe on one occassion. I don't normally use the elk M!XEP browser interface to control lighting but I did try to execute a group lighting command from a task I executed from the browser interface about 2 weeks ago. Only one light responded to the group command and then it appeared almost like the entire Insteon network was locked up or seriously bogged down. I went to turn one light on manually and it turned itself back off several times. I shut off the M1 for a minute and then turned it back on and then everything was back to normal. If I would have had powerhome running at the time of this trouble I guess I could have captured and then analyzed what kind of Insteon traffic was going on at the time.