How To Handle Temporary Insteon Deployments

[JimSpy]

A general question:

I have a few Insteon outdoor modules that I only deploy around the holidays. I take them out and store them around mid-January. What is the best way to handle this in the configuration?

1. Leave them in year-round and ignore them
2. Leave them in year-round and hide them from all views
3. Take them out, hide them from all views, then during the holidays re-deploy them and unhide them
4. Take them out, delete them, then during the holidays redeploy them and rediscover them
5. Stop celebrating the holidays, your an atheist fer cryin out loud

How do y'all handle this?

[mnsandler]

i do #3. make sure to set the polling to 0 for these devices.

[JimSpy]

Which brings up the subject of polling, but I'll start a new topic for that. I have all my devices set to 0 for polling, unless I'm trouble-shooting something. Isn't that what it's for?

[Burrington]

I think the polling is also to allow a weak Insteon system with high errors and poor communications to "re-sync" itself by polling regularly to catch up on missed commands.

[Burrington]

A general question:

I have a few Insteon outdoor modules that I only deploy around the holidays. I take them out and store them around mid-January. What is the best way to handle this in the configuration?

1. Leave them in year-round and ignore them
2. Leave them in year-round and hide them from all views
3. Take them out, hide them from all views, then during the holidays re-deploy them and unhide them
4. Take them out, delete them, then during the holidays redeploy them and rediscover them
5. Stop celebrating the holidays, your an atheist fer cryin out loud

How do y'all handle this?

I bring mine in the house, plug them in, and ignore them, IE your number 1. That's probably wasting a couple dollars worth of electricity every year, but its not enough to be worth the hassle of modifying the system twice a year.