kpfriedberg wrote:What are the stars vs the dashes vs actual numbers that show up in each iteration?
The stars are a bar graph of latency - that's the value in the "avg" column. Shorter is better. Latency means time to complete a command, and is an indicator of how many "hops" the signal has to make before it propagates across the house and back. It also measures retransmissions which is where the signal doesn't make the round trip at all and has to be sent again. You probably have both of those occurring nearly all the time.
I do use a lot of CFLs in the house for energy saving purposes...the outlet that the PLM is on i can't imagine having a lot of noise, and given my home setup, it would be difficult to change outlets given the PLM doesn't have a pass through outlet like the 2414
You need to try it if just for testing purposes. If you have a laptop you can install the tool on that and then take it around the house. If you determine that the outlet IS at fault, then you can go from there. It might be easy to fix by swapping two breakers for example - if you get to that point I can give you some more specific suggestions.
PS when I say it's "noise", I am speaking in a very broad sense. Really what we're talking about is "signal to noise ratio". If you put the PLM on the end of a 200' extension cord for example, you haven't really introduced a lot of noise to the system, but you have decreased the strength of the signal and this is just as bad. So maybe that outlet isn't "noisy" per se but if it's a long distance from the panel that has the same effect. You can also have "signal suckers" - things which don't generate noise but do _absorb_ energy at the particular frequency at which Insteon communicates.
Also I don't know how you're able to determine that it isn't noisy. Do you know how the wire is run in the wall, and all the other outlets that are shared on that circuit? It's usually not what's plugged into that same outlet that you're concerned about, but all the stuff in the walls that you can't see.