It seems I have a partially dead 2450 I/O Link.
It was wired to control my garage door opener (to simulate the manual button push) on my old HS2 system. I used a Z-Wave door sensor to detect if the door went up or down and that was installed before the I/O Link.
About 2 months ago I moved the I/O Link to my HS3 system (only a few more to go .. yeah). My Z-Wave garage door sensor has started to be flaky (my most distant sensor) so I decided to use the contact sensor input on the I/O Link to sense the door. I wired it up with a magnetic switch and the little green LED worked correctly when the door went up or down but I could NOT communicate with the I/O Link to see the door sensor settings in HS3.
After some fiddling I believe the unit is partially dead. I could not send any relay closure commands to run the door up or down. I decided to remove it from HS3 and re-add it but I could not re-add it because it seems it will not communicate. I tried entering the unit ID code and doing Tap Add but neither worked.
I have a second I/O Link for a different application and I noticed the LED on the side of the garage unit did not ever illuminate. The other I/O link works fine.
Are these units un-reliable? I had it a few years and it did work until a few weeks after the move to HS3 (which I am sure is unrelated). The electrical outlet in the garage also has a transformer plugged in to it that controls some landscape lighting and a low voltage wire runs buried (although shallow) along the drive way for nearly 50 feet. This landscape lighting was added about 5 months ago.
Do you suppose lightning got it? I am not aware of any close by direct hits but we have had some storms in the past few months. The transformer has a built in electronic timer to turn the lights on and off and it still works OK.
I am curious about others experience with reliability.
Thanks.
It was wired to control my garage door opener (to simulate the manual button push) on my old HS2 system. I used a Z-Wave door sensor to detect if the door went up or down and that was installed before the I/O Link.
About 2 months ago I moved the I/O Link to my HS3 system (only a few more to go .. yeah). My Z-Wave garage door sensor has started to be flaky (my most distant sensor) so I decided to use the contact sensor input on the I/O Link to sense the door. I wired it up with a magnetic switch and the little green LED worked correctly when the door went up or down but I could NOT communicate with the I/O Link to see the door sensor settings in HS3.
After some fiddling I believe the unit is partially dead. I could not send any relay closure commands to run the door up or down. I decided to remove it from HS3 and re-add it but I could not re-add it because it seems it will not communicate. I tried entering the unit ID code and doing Tap Add but neither worked.
I have a second I/O Link for a different application and I noticed the LED on the side of the garage unit did not ever illuminate. The other I/O link works fine.
Are these units un-reliable? I had it a few years and it did work until a few weeks after the move to HS3 (which I am sure is unrelated). The electrical outlet in the garage also has a transformer plugged in to it that controls some landscape lighting and a low voltage wire runs buried (although shallow) along the drive way for nearly 50 feet. This landscape lighting was added about 5 months ago.
Do you suppose lightning got it? I am not aware of any close by direct hits but we have had some storms in the past few months. The transformer has a built in electronic timer to turn the lights on and off and it still works OK.
I am curious about others experience with reliability.
Thanks.
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