Hello, i am in the final stages of my new home construction. I opted to go for almost entirely insteon outlets and wall switches plus fanlincs for 3 master bedroom ceiling fans. This last weekend i setup my hometroller S6 for the first time and started to bring in the light switches. I have now realized that i used the homeseer insteon plugin and should have used Marks so my next plan is to reset my hometroller and start fresh with the correct plugin. The questions i have are around linking/grouping.
Are there clear advantages to linking switches directly from the hardware versus doing a software link? Currently i have multiple 3 ways and a single 4 way location. I have all of the 3 way linked at the device and they seemed to work well. I could not for the life of me get the multi linking portion of the 4 way to work, they just wouldnt link all together. All 3 of the 4way switches were already loaded into homeseer so i tried the software link method of linking switch A to switch B, Switch B to Switch C and then Switch C back to A...it worked for about an hour and a half with a 2-5 second delay when touching switch B or C....then it all went to hell and the lights started looping themselves...switch A would turn on and then switch B would turn off and it just kept looping the lights on and off. Disabled the software link and just have a single dimmer controlling these particular lights but would like to get the other two pads in sync.
Are there clear advantages to linking switches directly from the hardware versus doing a software link? Currently i have multiple 3 ways and a single 4 way location. I have all of the 3 way linked at the device and they seemed to work well. I could not for the life of me get the multi linking portion of the 4 way to work, they just wouldnt link all together. All 3 of the 4way switches were already loaded into homeseer so i tried the software link method of linking switch A to switch B, Switch B to Switch C and then Switch C back to A...it worked for about an hour and a half with a 2-5 second delay when touching switch B or C....then it all went to hell and the lights started looping themselves...switch A would turn on and then switch B would turn off and it just kept looping the lights on and off. Disabled the software link and just have a single dimmer controlling these particular lights but would like to get the other two pads in sync.
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