Universal Devices ISY-994i Series, User Manual

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12.3 Spidering Your INSTEON Network
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12.3.1 Spidering While Keeping Your Existing Links
If you are new to the ISY and want to keep your existing network links, then spidering your
network is what you are looking for. It will bring in any existing links in your devices so you
will have less to do manually. It is suggested you pick devices to start with that are part of
large scenes (like an "all lights" scene), because the spidering depends on following the
links around your network to get as many devices as possible.
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Log into your ISY.
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Open the linking utility from the pull-down menu: go to "Link Management --> Start
Linking"
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Select "Add devices found in links and keep existing links" which puts it into spider
mode
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OK the popup window which warns of the lengthy time it might take
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Go to one of your devices with a big scene linked to it, and hold the button down
until it goes into linking mode
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On the screen that shows the popup window titled 'Linking In Progress', click the
FINISH button to begin finding your Insteon devices.
The ISY will start spidering the network collecting all the links it can find. If it misses some
of your devices you can go to one of the missed devices that has a large scene and repeat
the same process. Keep working your way through your network until all your devices are
added to the ISY.
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