OH doesnāt actually know if the dimmer is operating. It has no way to know (there is no heartbeat or anything sent from the switch). The ONLINE means that the configuration (in OH) not really anything else.
I agree with @denominator Iād first try ārebootingā the switch by killing the breaker or pulling the reset switch open and back on. I actually had to do this with a dimmer of mine the other day. If that didnāt work Iād next try factory resetting/relinking the dimmer and trying again.
Pulling the reset just reboots. If you pull the reset, then push/hold it in until it beeps it factory resets the dimmer deleting its link table. Not sure about double entries in the PLM, but probably not and even if it did, it is pretty unlikely to have any effect. You can always use insteon-terminal to check/delete as needed.
You just stop OH or at least stop the Insteon binding so the connection to the PLM isnāt being used and then fire up insteon-terminal. Iāve never had an issue.
Iāve had weird stuff happen over the years where a switch stops responding to things and when i check it with insteon-terminal Iāll find one of the links missing in the link DB or a weird setting in one of the flags. Iāve wondered if from time to time bits get flipped in the internal memory. Either resetting/relinking or using insteon-terminal to fix my link db / flag setting has always fixed the issues.
@ranielsen - is there a way these days to see a devices flags through your binding in the OH console as to not have to install / understand insteon-terminal? Maybe @InTheDark can check his link DB and flags that way.
My guess is that the device is broke somewhere between the part of the device that turns the switch on/off and the part that communicates with devices.
Insteon Dimmers are great until they are not. Purchased a number of them for my home but after 10 years they started failing. Got a good deal back then during a holiday sale but now having to replace them makes it seem like a pricy endeavor.
When I purchased my Insteon switches I was not thinking about them failing and dying off I was thinking I was buying a light switch.
Price is defiantly a factor for me which is why I have replaced some of my failed Insteon with WiFi based devices that do not require a ācloud accountā.
I am open to z-wave and Matter devices if the price is right.
All instructions are for Ubuntu 14.04
install ant, java jdk
sudo apt-get install ant default-jdk
I donāt want to create more problems while attempt to fix other problems.
I attempted to install and run without installing them but received the following error and I am not sure if that is the reason.
Error: Could not find or load main class us.pfrommer.insteon.terminal.Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: us.pfrommer.insteon.terminal.Main
Purchased a number of them for my home but after 10 years they started failing. Got a good deal back then during a holiday sale but now having to replace them makes it seem like a pricy endeavor.