jay (support) wrote:Note that you shouldn't need to send status requests under normal circumstances - so if you find yourself needing to do status requests frequently then you might want to find out why devices are out of sync and fix that problem rather than just addressing the symptom...
I do it from a script for a light and a lamp that are in a bedroom at the end of a long wiring run and sometimes accessed from a palmpad and X10 reciever; The switchlinc and appliancelinc that are controlling these lights are "dual coded", insteon as well as X10 (L10 and L11); Indigo and the two keypadlincs that also control them use Insteon to reach them, but the X10 reciever on a plug on the same breaker as the two devices is too weak to signal back to the Mac, so if the palmpad on the bedstand is used, INdig doesn't know that the device changed until it asks (once a minute on a schedule). Sure, I COULD get a remotelinc and dual band device to hang out there, but as long as the kludge works, why add the expense? Of course if the Insteon devices were programmed PROPERLY, they would broadcast their state change from X10 just like the switchlinc does from someone hitting the paddle, but that's a gripe for Smarthome... And I also do a request on the Garage door open IOlinc in the same schedule because every once a while; signal noise or maybe just confusion in the device, it fails to send a state change when I close the door, which means I make a trip to the garage for nothing after checking before bed.