In case anyone else here has the same problem, I wanted to share what I found to be the cause of serious Insteon performance problems and errors (with both Mark's plugin and HST's).
Commands seemed to work fine for a while after starting the plugin, but then I started seeing many errors and commands timing out. A command to turn on a lamp might take 20-30 minutes to go through. Restarting the plugin seemed to make things better for a while. I should note that I have only 2 Insteon devices controlled by my PLM.
What I found was that I had a misconfigured event. It was designed to turn on my desk lamp when motion was detected in my office, and turn it off after no motion for 5 minutes. The ON event was fine - turn the lamp on when motion changes from OFF to ON. The problem was in the OFF event. It was set trigger when motion has been OFF for at least 5 minutes. This event continued to fire rapidly, flooding HomeSeer and the Insteon network.
I changed the event to fire when motion has been OFF for at least 5 minutes AND the lamp is turned on. Now I have no more Insteon problems. Hopefully this helps someone else who like me didn't completely understand the event triggers.
Commands seemed to work fine for a while after starting the plugin, but then I started seeing many errors and commands timing out. A command to turn on a lamp might take 20-30 minutes to go through. Restarting the plugin seemed to make things better for a while. I should note that I have only 2 Insteon devices controlled by my PLM.
What I found was that I had a misconfigured event. It was designed to turn on my desk lamp when motion was detected in my office, and turn it off after no motion for 5 minutes. The ON event was fine - turn the lamp on when motion changes from OFF to ON. The problem was in the OFF event. It was set trigger when motion has been OFF for at least 5 minutes. This event continued to fire rapidly, flooding HomeSeer and the Insteon network.
I changed the event to fire when motion has been OFF for at least 5 minutes AND the lamp is turned on. Now I have no more Insteon problems. Hopefully this helps someone else who like me didn't completely understand the event triggers.
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